Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final moments of the half, however, Carl Belz and his brother Herman returned to life to net eight points in a row and thereby bring the Tigers to within one point as the buzzer sounded...
...poor third quarter, Reynolds Metals did so well in the last quarter that it actually increased its full-year earnings slightly, to $3.25 per share. Du Pont had the best fourth quarter in three years, with profits 20% better than the same quarter of 1957, while Textron's net jumped 24% to a record $2.51 per share...
...more than we could afford, but reluctantly agreed to go ahead after we put up the cash in advance. When we returned the following Saturday, sure enough, there it was. It drew enormous crowds, and caught on like wildfire. The total cost was $75-which came to $25 apiece, net...
...court, in the fashion of the game, resembled a medieval courtyard; shedlike roofs slanted down along three sides. A huge net drooped limply across the floor. The low walls were pierced by openings that looked like windows in ancient outbuildings from which spectators peered out like court nobles in an old print. At the exclusive Racquet and Tennis Club on Manhattan's Park Avenue, devotees were watching Northrup R. Knox, 30, challenge 41-year-old Albert ("Jack") Johnson for the world open championship of the ancient game of court tennis...
...trouble"). But in last week's match Johnson found Knox's "bloody bobbly little serve" difficult to return. Knox was deadly in putting the ball into the dedans and grille, often hitting the tambour, a jutting buttress off which the ball caroms almost parallel to the net. In three days' play, he ran through Johnson seven sets to two, became the first amateur to win the world open title since Jay Gould (grandson of the famed railroad tycoon) held it in 1914. True to the aristocratic traditions of the ancient game, there was no cup to change...