Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offset motor gives greater traction to its left rear wheel which rolls on the unplowed land, not on the softer earth already plowed...
...offset this unpleasant fact Dr. Goebbels denounced "intellectuals" who "constantly nagged" the Nazi Government during the Czech crisis and asked: What would have happened had Neville Chamberlain not come to Munich? Dr. Goebbels roared: "I say he came because he had to come. He came because we had him so cornered that he was-to use a chess term-in check...
...getting its hands on the Czechs' $30,000,000, the Reich would receive enough gold to offset one or even two months' unfavorable trade balance...
With one hand he would beckon the Dictators to a peace conference table, with the other he would make the largest gesture of "force to force" that he knew how: move the Battle Fleet back into the Pacific where it could offset any Japanese menace to Great Britain, France and The Netherlands in the Orient...
According to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi, Japan's Cabinet finally concluded last week that "overwhelming military victories" were insufficient to offset the constant flow of foreign money and materiel into China. In the near future they will: 1) enlist the active assistance of Germany and Italy in bringing "diplomatic pressure" against U. S., French, British and Russian aid to China; 2) sharply curtail the interests of those four nations within China...