Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still another way of comforting a cancer victim was suggested early this year by the late Dr. Willy Meyer of Manhattan. He applied deep X-rays to the cancer, gave the patient dilute hydrochloric acid to offset any acidosis, and made him breathe a mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen. Dr. Carl William Hoefflich of Houston, president of the Associated Anesthetists of the U. S. and Canada, tried the Meyer treatment on his mother, 82. Reported he last week: "The growth has greatly decreased in size and the pain is gone. In fact, my mother has been doing much...
...supplement to its productions of recognized authors. Plays by students would probably be not unusually lower in quality than the third rate or freakish productions that have failed to meet the requirements of the professional stage. The stimulating effect on prospective play-wrights in the College would more than offset the possibly inferior quality of the amateur work...
...destined to shape their undergraduate career. True, they enter College at a time when family and University budgets are severely restricted to essentials, a condition which necessitates a definite curtailment of extra, nonetheless agreeable conveniences. But this handicap, if such indeed it can honestly be termed, is far offset by two notable advantages. Today, as Freshmen, they will find men's minds quickened to thought and imagination by the problems of the present crisis; to the eager student such an atmosphere is well worth the small sou of temporary, financial restriction. Four years hence, as alumni, the probability is that...
...offset writing that is frequently jerky, Here Today has the polished direction of George S. Kaufman. To offset the miscasting of Messrs. Macdonald and Brown it has the almost perfect casting of Misses Gordon, Bates, Granville. It is Actress Bates who states the theme of the play...
...past ten years. It now amounts to 70% of the world's total. Accustomed to whopping big increases year after year, insurance men were disappointed in last year's trifling increase in total insurance in force. The $16,400,000,000 of new business was almost entirely offset by lapses and surrenders of policies. There have been only a few life insurance receiverships, among small concerns, during the Depression and the big companies have invariably taken over the policies, in almost every case without loss to the policy holder. This practice is not to save the face...