Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offset this advantage Coach Claflin's men will have superiority in team-work. If anything can overcome Westminster, it is a good, snappy passing game. And it is this kind of playing upon which the Crimson is basing it hopes...
...were better individually than Coach Claflin's. They also appeared to be in better condition. But the traditional Harvard hockey system, based on team-work and checking back, offset all other disadvantages. In addition there was Higgins. His work at goal was the most surprising feature of the game. He made some of the most remarkable stops that have been seen in the Arena this year. Not only did he fatally stab the long shots from the wings. He kept the B. A. A. from scoring when it seemed impossible to save a tally, now when a blue jerseyed...
...stumbled and fallen to the floor. Black, Fitts and McLeish, however, each scored from the floor and the last named made two more successful free tries before the visitors could count again, running the score up to 12-4. Then M. A. C. staged a sharp rally which was offset by long shots by Black and Fitts, the half ending with the score reading 17-11 in favor of Coach Wachter...
...belief--the existence of a large merchant service is an actual menace to the industry of this country. Any reader of Professor Taussig's "Principles of Economics" will tell you that in the long run imports must balance exports and that our credit abroad for things sold will just offset our debts to foreign nations...
...willing to take the four, or five, or six percent profit with which Europeans are content, instead of usually insisting upon the ten or fifteen percent which the same capital would bring in certain other businesses. As regards the second evil--high operating expenses--the usual proposal is to offset them by some form of ship subsidy. But experience testifies that a subsidy has never accomplished its purpose--except in England, where it was employed solely to encourage the building of large, fast vessels, such as the Olympic, which would be of use as naval auxiliaries in time...