Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot gained the championship by virtue of wins in squash, swimming, wrestling, and crew, plus seconds in baseball, tennis, golf, and track. The Elephants clinched the trophy by beating Kirkland in a net match last Thursday...
Department store profits during 1951 fell of more sharply than those of almost any other type of big business, Malcolm P. McNair, Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing, said yesterday. Compared with the previous year, the net dollar earnings suffered a 39 percent drop...
...drunkard are indeed present in 20th Century Fox's The Outcasts of Poker Flat, it would require copious use of an opium pipe to discover any further similarities between the film and the Bret Harte story of the same moniker. This is not to say that the net result isn't mildly diverting, which it is, though the melodrama gets a little sticky around the fourth reel...
...Anything Can Happen is a tedious tidbit about how Georgians from Russia can achieve success in America while still clinging tenaciously to the bizarre traditions of the Caucasian mountains. It relies heavily on pidgin English for its humor and Horatio Alger for its plot, and the net result shows that a cliche, even in dialect, is still a cliche...
...ways to explain a difficult economic or social concept, probably far better than a thousand word essay on the subject. And at the same time, no one, least of all a professor, likes to admit that he doesn't understand a graph, the simplest way to explain anything. The net result of it all is that the "graph for all occasions," embellished with Greek letters and surrounded by a scholarly essay, permits you to "prove" all kinds of things which you know are true, but couldn't possibly prove without having done the work, an obviously insufferable burden...