Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Superiority in fail minor sports for the past two years is offset by this year's 12 to 7 defeat in football. In 1926 the Crimson and Blue elevens fought up and down the Stadium to a scoreless tie, but in the Bowl last fall two deadly accurate field goals by Wadsworth and Bunnell spelled downfall for the Harvard team...
...alike of the book and the man: "If I have exhibited a questionable dead mermaid in my museum, it should not be overlooked that I have also exhibited much . . . about which there could be no doubt, and I should hope that a little clap-trap occasionally . . . might find an offset in a wilderness of wonderful, instructive, and amusing realities...
Sixteen hits lined out against Wesleyan last Tuesday offset the weaker stick-work in the New Hampshire and Brown games, and wiped out the one point margin that last week separated the Crimson nine from the select group of .300 hitters. From .299 the aggregate has been raised to precisely the .300 berth. At this time last season the team batting mark was set at a lowly...
From Paris last week came despatches relating a plot among artists and literati to offset the continental pestilence of beauty contests. They planned, as counter scourge, an ugliness contest, with awards. "Beauty fades," said the plotters, "but ugliness remains...
...vicinity ranks very high; for about 95 undergraduate holders of these awards were prepared in schools in this district. The Boston Latin School heads the list with 34 winners while Cambridge Latin has 22. There are 39 other men from Boston high schools. This large number is offset by the large percentage of undergraduates who prepared in this district, but in spite of that it shows the high standard maintained by these schools...