Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must ask you to publish a prominent statement in your magazine that will offset the injury done our Organization by this quotation, as we are feeding hundreds of thousands every day throughout the country...
...astonishing success of the Nazi party in yesterday's election seems likely to be the peak of their fortune. Although they will inherit the votes of the Hugenburg nationalists these will be insufficient to offset the Communist votes which will go to the President, or which will at least remain inactive. A direct trial of strength, without the diverting issues of the other parties should almost inevitably lead to Hindenburg's reelection...
...this account, they refused to swear that they would bear arms in defense of the country, although willing in all other respects to serve it to the best of their ability. The liberal minority of the court more wisely considered that the desirability of these three as citizens far offset whatever drawback their pacifistic influence might have...
Incidentally, my boys, 8 & 10, sit in enraptured and absolute silence during your broadcast. The only effect it has upon them is to stimulate their minds so that they lead their grades at school, especially in Current Events, etc. It seems to me this positive reaction should more than offset one child's nightmares...
...expose of its record. It is rather a popular account of the two centuries and a half of the Company's existence, with the emphasis on the human elements of the drama. At times the author's conversational style suffers considerably from incoherence; this is more than offset by his intimate knowledge of and interest in his subject. And whatever the relative merits and failings of the book may be, the now almost legendary figures of Radisson and Hearne, Kelsey and Thompson, and, of course, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, are brought to life again in its pages...