Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Oxford and Cambridge are the English University system, St. Andrews is very far from being the Scottish system. The English system is by far the smallest in numbers. (about one-tenth of the enrolment in Glasgow or Edinburgh) and, Apart from its seniority, has no special assets to offset its numerical weakness. St. Andrews, like Oxford and Cambridge, is if the system described by Principal Irvine is to be imitated here the task should be approached with knowledge of how much the three senior British universities owe to historical accident. Principal Irvine seems to imply that the college system...
...Making Good Coffee" by George Moore, a haberdashery and gifts-for-women page, theatre talk, an excellent London book letter by J. Middleton Murray, a dull Shaw interview, a note on bridge and a note on the return to Manhattan of nag-drawn victorias, all of which somewhat offset a nude story by Paul Morand, a discussion of Broadway females, some "daring" art work and a letter-the original of which is possessed by the U. S. State Department-to a Man with "a violent natural inclination" which no medicine will diminish, and with an aversion to Matrimony...
...stage cabaret dancers, unlovely, bawling, quarreling; on-stage cabaret dancers, lovely, smiling, gracious. Into this perennially intriguing background, stalk gangsters, murder, revenge, police, nicely offset by racy comic relief and a love affair between the show- off "hoofer" and his dancing sweetheart. The cast knows the life it is portraying; the authors know the life they are staging. The result is a meticulously realistic production, faithful even unto the garrulous hoofer's discarding his trousers before an unperturbed sweetheart...
...Germany took advantage of her fall in currency to put all her large industrial plants in order, and is now ready for producing goods on a large scale capacity, greater than any other nation. A high tariff is the only protection the United States has to offset, for, if it is lowered, the high-waged American worker will meet the direct competition of the low-waged German. "As a Democrat, I think it is impossible to change the present tariff...
...strategy of M. Caillaux is evident from a glance at the list of Ministers. They are predominantly Left and Centrist demagogues, offset by General Guillaumat, no politician but a stern and confidence-inspiring commander during the French occupation of the Ruhr...