Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair weather did much of offset the slightly soggy ground and the chilly wind at Soldiers' Field as Coach Slattery's baseball squad took their last work-out of the week on the Freshman field yesterday. There will be no practice today, but on Monday, the whole squad, including the pitchers, will desert the cage for out-door practice...
...statute tariff. The action may be made by proclamation after an investigation of the costs of production in the U. S. and in the country which is our principal competitor in a given commodity. Within the limits set, the President is authorized to set new tariff rates sufficient to offset the difference in cost of production between the two countries. This is the so-called flexible provision of the tariff. Until the President took his present action it had never been employed...
Harvard's endurance may prove the winning factor against Yale tonight at the Arena. This advantage is partially offset, however, by the Blue's slight superiority in the second string line. To a certain extent frequent substitutions can make up for deficiencies in stamina...
Rauh regularly lost the jump to Fisher, the visiting center, but the Williams five failed to make the most of this advantage. On only one occasion did they launch a successful scoring play from the tap-off. Rauh offset his jumping weakness by sticking closely to his man on the defense and contributing three goals to the Crimson attack...
...record for infant mortality was made with 77 per 1,000 births, scarcely more than half the 1901 rate of 151. But the improve- ment is more than offset by the unprecedentedly low birthrate of 20.4 per 1,000 living. The total births (780,124) were fewer than in any year, with the exception of the war years, since 1869, when England had but 22,000,000 population. Male births are still greatly in excess of female, the ratio being...