Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aware that some G.O.P. Governors are among the reluctant -specifically those whose states happen to be among the net losers in such a swap -Eisenhower sent a message to the Governors' Conference in Miami Beach. "If a healthy functioning of all our political parts is to be maintained," he wrote, just about every citizen has to fight the "centripetal force" that accumulates power in Washington...
Deeply religious, and a conscientious teetotaler, he is a twice-over tither; i.e., he gives 20% of his net earnings to the Baptist Church. During Evangelist Billy Graham's Manhattan crusade last year, Van sang in the Madison Square Garden choir alongside Ethel Waters. He once skipped a $500 concert date so that he could play for a church banquet in Paramus, NJ. Buffalo Philharmonic Conductor Josef Krips recalls the time that Van came into his dressing room before a performance and said, "Maestro, let us pray." Krips, a Roman Catholic, dropped to his knees with the pianist. Said...
...shocked by the hard facts of community concert life. His net income dropped to less than $3,000 a year (from a high of $8,000). He piled up $7,000 of debts, mostly loans that his parents made for him from the Kilgore National Bank. He took to such money-saving devices as playing classical music for his supper in Manhattan's Asti Restaurant...
...Beer maintains that if the graduate's concern is with a "niggling, pedantic search for details," it is the department, rather than the student, which is at fault. "If you cast your net terribly wide" in accepting graduate students, he explains, you may well get graduates who are not as good as the Harvard student. In that case there will be prejudice for the undergraduate on the part of the instructor...
...them, he beat Ashley Cooper in straight sets to reach the finals, where it took Hamilton Richardson five sets to defeat him. Like Junta, he has a powerful serve complementing beautiful ground strokes and quick reflexes at the net...