Word: offset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen-whose rising sales that year were more than offset by aggregate weakening of working capital-the steady downtrend in TIME'S Index from February to September 1929 gave ample warning that houses should be put in order, inventories cut and debts reduced. (And if enough businessmen had taken those steps, TIME'S Index-and all other indexes-would doubtless have showed a far less depressing downtrend in the sorry years from...
These are all excellent suggestions but University Hall and the House Masters have constituted themselves as a force to maintain the status quo, claiming that any benefits gained by such measures are more than offset by losses. It is high time that they are forcefully disillusioned. The Council has helped do this by spiking the argument against the Associate Plan that it would overcrowd facilities. More generally, the House Masters must realize that their most potent contention against both the Junior-Senior Admission and the Associate Plans, that these will destroy House spirit, is woefully invalid. House spirit is ephemeral...
...important public work for unemployed lasting perhaps ten or 15 years.* 2) The $36,000,000 Passamaquoddy Bay tidal power project (on which $7,000,000 was spent up to the summer of 1936, when Maine's apathy discouraged further appropriations), to give Eastern Maine cheaper power to offset the economic decline of its forests and fisheries...
...Crimson courtmen are not only rather inexperienced, but also they will be forced to enter every game under a height disadvantage. In order to offset this deficiency Wes Fesler has been drilling the squad on a fast breaking attack for the past few days...
...Feslermen have been hard at work since Wednesday's drubbing at the hands of the Brown Bears, and they hope to present a faster breaking attack to offset their decided height disadvantage in tonight's clash. Coach Mel Collard's men will be out to avenge the 42 to 29 set-back they received last year at the hands of the Crimson...