Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considered opinion that football is in real danger today from its friends or rather these who claim to be its friends," says Mr. Okeson. "Financial competition for schoolboys athletes brings evils in its train which more than offset whatever good there may be in furnishing a college education to those men who really desire it and are ambitious enough to acquire and use it. Excessive drinking at games, gambling, and rowdy exhibitions by spectators all furnish ammunition to those who are opposed to football...
Lowell fought Eliot to a deadlock of one match apiece. Lowell's League C team piled up a neat 4-1 count to offset Eliot's complete 5-0 walkover in League...
...regard to the University Professorships, I have known of no such intelligent and realistic attempt to offset the evils of over-departmentalization and of high specialization as is represented by the proposal of this plan. For perfectly obvious and understandable reasons a college curriculum tends to fall into the hands of specialists working in water-tight compartments of knowledge and instinctively holding the bulkheads tightly closed that if opened would articulate one branch of knowledge with another. The inevitable result of this is failure on the part of institutions of higher education to make clear to undergraduates anything even mildly...
Because of the holiday Monday, practice time this week has been comparatively scarce, but Coach Jim McDonald has tried to offset this with three intensive sessions...
...vulnerable point. For this purpose he had at his disposal a carload of Swiss anti-aircraft machine guns of the latest model, all the ammunition he required, and a thousand black soldiers who were the worst shots Expert Whittley had ever seen. Finally he figured out a system to offset his gun crews' miserable marksmanship...