Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Team expenses in major sports showed a slight average drop. Slight rises in the expenses of University crew and hockey were more than offset by a decrease of nearly $20,000 in the amount spent on baseball, football, and track
Norwich was altogether on the defensive against the Crimson trio, scoring their only goal in the last chukker when one of the ponies kicked the ball between the Crimson goal posts in a scrimmage. This goal had been partially offset earlier in the last chukker when a foul took off half point from the visitors' score...
...frog in my fish pond answers readily to the name Bill Taft. Our favorite pet however, was a large flying fish christened Gloria Swanson. Her diet was difficult, but this was offset by a most affectionate disposition. Gloria visited the house frequently, flying from her pond through a patch of bamboo, between coconut trees, entering open windows and doors, frequently alighting at the canary's cage, exchanging chirps with the imprisoned singer. Gloria's death was a natural one. She "caught cold" while moulting and all efforts to rescue her from double pneumonia were vain. Bill Taft...
...effect, namely, that going to college is deemed the most profitable form of unremunerative employment. It is a way of improving the plant against the time when it can be put to use. It would appear, then, that these two factors, reduction of income and reduction of employment, offset one another, so that the number of students is unaffected by the total economic situation...
This conference between Hoover and Grandi is not an attempt to offset the influence of Laval, but rather, like Laval's visit itself, an effort to bring about a better understanding between nations by mutual and unhampered discussion...