Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still a good financial year. The Treasury's surplus for that year was $183,789,214.90. But ". . . as a matter of fact, the actual receipts during the fiscal year 1930 were about $71,000,000 less than the estimate contained in the 1931 budget. This was partially offset by a net reduction in expenditures of $29,500,000 below those estimated...
...Summer School showed the largest enrollment in Arts and Sciences in its history. Last summer 501 students were registered in this department against 452 the preceeding season. This gain in the Arts and Sciences was partially offset by a decline in enrollment in the School of Education and of Physical Education. The percentage of men in the School increased, and of these, the number of school superintendents has diminished. Indications pointed to a larger enrollment than actually took place, as the continued financial depression apparently caused a considerable number to cancel their reservations...
...nation in the world so proud of our manufactures that we never pretend them to be anything but what they are! Aren't you proud of your products? Why do you endeavor to make the world believe your goods are British by establishing factories here in order to offset British competition...
...erection of comfortable and convenient living quarters for the law students is a project that would reap substantial benefits. The imaginary fear that such paternalistic pampering would soften the moral fibre of the future lawyers is more than offset by the relief of a crowded and inadequate housing situation...
...Whitney Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico, the delegates applauded long and loud. Mr. Morrow is a thoroughgoing Republican Wet and the New Yorkers were about to demand repeal of the 18th Amendment. Likewise Statesman Stimson had very little to say about government economy, because Federal expenditures have increased to offset unemployment. The World Court was disposed of in 15 words. Democratic critics, of course, could pick holes in the Stimson speech. They could mock the claim that the President exhibited leadership in the tariff fight, that the new law "redeemed" the party's pledge, that the flexible provision...