Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the greatly increased Republican majority in the Senate, the prospect of getting some kind of a league is greatly improved. There will be enough Democratic senators to offset the votes of the "irreconcilables" and these gentlemen can be mustered for a non-partisan settlement, if those who say they are for a league are really...
Democrats were in hopes that the visit of Governor Cox to Boston would offset the advantage which the Republicans have thus obtained. Cox will undoubtedly away some votes, but the Republicans are putting a new vim into their campaign during the last few days and are not worrying. Governor Coolidge's speeches in the South will also have an effect here, for Massachusetts people have come to admire the homely common sense which their executive puts into a public utterance, and their only criticism of his campaign to date is that he has spoken so infrequently...
Behind the plate, Peters, former Exeter leader, will have to look to his laurels in comparison with Blair. Blair's aggressive jacking-up of his infield and clever handling of his pitchers should offset Peters' edge in hitting...
...cent, increase in the Salaries of professors is a splendid start in the disposition of the Endowment Fund,--but it must be remembered that it is only a start. Even before the war teachers were underpaid, and a 50 per cent, raise in the wages does not nearly offset the 100 per cent in prices since then. A maximum salary of $8,000 to the highest paid professor shows that there is still much to be desired...
...Harvard organization, which as yet has taken no name for itself, intends to incorporate the best features of the Yale and Princeton plans. The movement is in part, to offset radicalism, whose advocates are always well-trained in public speaking...