Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coaches have so divided the squad that at present team A has a more imposing line-up, on the basis of past performance, than team B. To offset the number of second and 1927 team men on the A nine, C. P. Clifford '27, one of the most promising hurlers on the squad, has been assigned to team B. The result is that the daily games are fairly close. Yesterday's went to the first team by the score of 5 to 4 in a seven inning game...
...lightly. At London, last week, apropos of the Experts' Plan and the jeopardized future of British trade, he said in effect: "By the Experts' Plan it was hoped to expand British trade and find work for our million unemployed. But a Franco-German trade agreement may well offset this expected result." The Chancellor went on to make a veiled attack upon the Premier which was construed as meaning that Mr. MacDonald must rely more upon his Ministers and less upon himself; for it had become known that the Cabinet was not consulted upon the Anglo-Russian settlement (TIME...
Significance. The economic situation on the Continent gave poignancy to Snowden's speech. What did he mean by saying that a trade agreement between France and Germany "may well offset this expected result ?" This: By the Treaty of Versailles Germany's Ruhr coal was separated from her Alsace-Lorraine iron ore. The coal remained in Germany; the ores went to France. France has not enough coal; Germany has not enough iron ores. The logical thing for France to do is to follow the advice of that ex-Premier of France and economic genius, M. Joseph Caillaux, and seek...
...baby, long under observation, was afraid of fur or anything resembling fur. The cure consisted in bringing animals into his presence while he ate., A lump of sugar was given to him and an animal brought close at the same time. After a period, his relish of the sugar offset his fear of the animal...
...Green victory over Cornell looks badly for the University nine, which took its worst beating of the season from the Red and White by an 11 to 1 score. A 24 to 4 rout of Columbia, another team that beat the Crimson, is only partly offset by a more recent 6 to 5 defeat from the New York college in a return engagement...