Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luxuries of all sorts--100 per cent consumers, that's what Industry needs to keep the wheels revolving. The College furnishes plenty of them. Industry need not fear the College; the proportion of educated which it effects is so small as to be negligible, and is more than offset by the fact that the College makes the sons and daughters of coal-miners and immigrants "refined", and refinement means a taste for chintzes and silk socks and sedans and renting-library fiction and fancy soap. The College helps Industry. Industry helps the College. Allies...
Although beaten by Pennsylvania last Saturday. Brown's running attack showed great signs of power. During the initial half Pennsylvania was clearly outplayed and Kruez was the individual who offset Brown's brilliant team work by his still more effective individual performance...
...single goal for the University was made by Driggs early in the game, but was offset soon after the start of the second period by Steel for Amherst, who scored from a hard scrimmage in front of the goal...
...Naturally I regret the fact that the call of the stage proved in some ways stronger than the urge for college. However, I am able in some measure to offset the loss of the associations and friendships gained through college, against the four valuable years of practical stage experience. Which is something in itself", he concluded...
With night came illuminations. The Cathedral, its whole interior richly carved and gilded, blazed with an intensity offset by the gloomy shadows cast by its 20 squat Doric columns. Across the plaza, in the Palacio Nacional,* President Calles gave first a reception and then a ball. At midnight the festivities abated for an instant. President Calles stepped out upon the central balcony of the palace and pulled a cord which is pulled by every President of Mexico who manages to remain in office until a 16th of September. Boomed forth "The Liberty Bell? of Mexico." Cried Senor Calles "Viva Mejico...