Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand it is quite true that as matters now stand a number of students find difficulty in preparing for the general examinations in Romance Languages. It is in a measure to offset this that students concentrating in our department are asigned to various members of the teaching staff whose duty it is to help them in any way they can. The difficulty with such a scheme is that it puts a great deal of additional work upon the professors which they sometimes find difficult to handle...
...cost of living rose two points in August, making the index figure 73 above pre-War prices. This is the first increase since January, 1921, when the cost of living was 169 points above the pre-War level. Railwaymen will receive an extra shilling a week to offset the increase...
...roads as a rule reflects their record volume of traffic, higher expenses here prevented any great growth of net earnings, and in some cases even decreased them. The purchase of new equipment as well as the lasting effects of the shopmen's strike have more than offset the increased gross earnings of the early Summer...
...that they would be willing to accept British mediation along specific lines. This done, the bank rate was raised from 3% to 4%, partly as an act of pressure on France. The Air Force appropriation presented to the Commons, providing for an additional 34 squadrons, was a measure to offset French prestige by strengthening that of Great Britain. Finally, rumors of British action on the French debt were heard at Paris about the same time that the French began to realize that they were virtually isolated in Europe. Such is the bare outline of a clever diplomatic gambol...
...same effect, after nine months of rigorous clinical experiments. Insulin has in less than one year gained the complete approval of the medical profession. It is not, however, a permanent cure, and must be administered hypodermically at regular intervals, perhaps throughout the lifetime of the patient, in order to offset the lack of the normal internal secretion of the pancreas, which prevents diabetes...