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Word: nettings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hall, Vice President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Joseph Martin, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin and Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen to New Jersey to speak up for Case. Indignantly, old (80) former Governor Walter Edge came charging out of retirement to defend Case against the "party wreckers." Probable net result of the whole Republican anti-Case movement: a noisy backfire, a net gain for Case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: A Political Microcosm | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...commuters will now have to pay more. In the past, membership in the Commuter Center was voluntary and cost $10 per man; but it now is compulsory and costs $20 a year for the upper three years. The fee for freshmen has been waived, however, so that the net four-year increase is only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Residents Will Stay At Commuters' Center | 10/6/1954 | See Source »

...games. We would suggest a ruse has been perpetrated on the voiceless student: his date's ticket last year was expensive, and this year is outrageous. All this, despite the total abolition of the Federal 20% amusement tax, which means that on a $3.60 ticket, this year the H.A.A. nets nearly 17% more per ticket. Now, not satisfied with a virtual 17% net increase, the H.A.A. has raised the same ticket to $4.00, thereby being charitable to themselves to the extent of $1.00 more per ticket, or a 25% increase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONE FOR THE PRICE OF (ALMOST) TWO | 10/5/1954 | See Source »

Strasser and Dorsen also will make a special effort this spring to increase net contributions by cutting down campaign publicity expenses--extremely high in the past. Campaigns in the GSAS and Law School--usually run separately--will be combined under the leadership of the college committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charity Drive Delayed Until Spring Term | 9/30/1954 | See Source »

...tale, four fishermen who do their net-casting at night are racked with doubt about the honor of their wives. The god Shiva gives them a magic powder to eat that allows each man to fish and to spy invisibly on his wife at the same time. At first the wives prove faithful, but the fishermen soon make cuckolds of each other, and inattentively lose their boat and all but their lives in a storm. In an other story, a not-so-holy man seduces the wife of a rich merchant only to find in her insatiable arms a compelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hindu Mock Epic | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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