Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stephen flunks out of preparatory school because an honest, old professor does not consider Stephen's family name (Harlow) sufficiently important to offset his egregious ignorance of Turkish history. An irate headmaster peremptorily ousts the professor; Stephen goes to Turkey and makes history for subsequent Stephens to study. In the course of activities he acquires the Grand Cross of the Crescent for the honest, old professor...
...debt and postal expenditures. This, according to announcement, is the figure to which President Harding had hoped to limit expenditures. In addition there is $1,300,000,000, for interest and amortization of the public debt, making the grand total $3,000,000,000. (As postal revenues ap- proximately offset the allowance of the Post Office Department, this amount is not an " expense " in the same way as other expenditures...
...Army is probably the hardest opponent on the Yale schedule, and the blue team will be forced to the limit to win its game. Its scoring plays and the products of its practices will all be called upon to offset the accurate forward passing of Wood and Smythe and the line crushing attack of Hewitt in the army backfield...
...mystery play, the Italian plot seems superior in 'several respects: it has three more revolver shots, four more screams, and 32 more embraces. To offset this, however, the lights go out five more times in the Russian play, and there is one "peal of insane laughter" offstage. There is, besides, an excellent seance scene in which the stage hands will be kept very busy giving ghostly raps to the scenery, blowing open the doors, and snapping up the window shades...
...Chinese Students made a determined rally in the closing minutes of the second half, but were unable to penetrate the Crimson defense. Their kicking ability was more than offset by the aggressive team-play of the Crimson eleven, which showed improvement over its work in this respect during the Northeastern game...