Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quite possibly this conclusion is correct, but it would be safer to assume simply that the compensation offered the tutor, both financially and in prestige, does not offset the satisfaction of lecturing, and the more mysterious pleasures of research. The University is being forced to pay a heavy price for the unwillingness of the older members of the Faculty to accept tutees. The lack of interest and experience manifested by so many of the present tutors is generating a corresponding slackness in the average student, and the first efforts of the new administration ought to be aimed at correcting...
...burden upon the taxpayers necessitated by such a government expenditure would be offset by other advantages. All classes of laborers are given work. Furthermore, a naval program is a stimulus to a wide variety of industries, so that employment is possible for the man who works in the mines, the lumber yards as well as the steel mills and many others." Mr. Adams cited the example of France, which he said was now the most prosperous nation in the depression. "France has made tremendous outlays for army and navy. The question is not merely an economic one, for the United...
Students anxious to retain in their minds the general reading knowledge of German which they may have gathered in German A or 1A will find their desires fulfilled in this course of German 2, in which the prep school style of conducting the class is offset by some rather valuable reading in Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, Thomas Mann, and other famous writers of past or present times...
...preponderant effect of the Roosevelt program to date has been drastically deflationary. Four billion dollars was tied up in closed banks. Public savings curtailed private spendings. Even the psychological advantage of a balanced budget failed to offset this downward trend. Last week, however, the President's larger program became more clear. The budget was to be balanced so that the Government could borrow fresh billions and thereby prime the pump of U. S. business! Credit inflation on a colossal scale loomed ahead. Only if it failed to produce results would the White House lend an ear to the moonlit...
Public Confidence. Lighter-than-air enthusiasts would have welcomed evidence of sabotage, even of mishandling, to offset public conclusion that an airship is not to be trusted in a storm. For the Akron had been accepted as the answer to the stupendous list of airship casualties which had preceded...