Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belief that education in a university should not do for society in general that which society can do for itself. It is almost as reasonable for us to teach our pharmacy students how to mix soft drinks or to make sandwiches for the drug store trade." True Portrait. To offset the impression which the cinema, college publications and "the genial cynicism or barbed criticism of editorial comment in journals of opinion" create about college life, President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth in his convocation address gave his idea of the academic scene. Said he: "The true portrait of the American...
Cautious Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, withheld his opinion while he began a careful study of the case. Said he solemnly: "If the disadvantages in allowing seaplanes to navigate . . . are so serious and numerous as to offset the possible benefits which might accrue to the state of New Jersey, then the action possibly is both wise and justified...
...Tanganyika, where 5,800 Europeans, some 350 of them German colonists, rule over nearly five million blacks, British prestige is a vital thing. Two days later, to offset the Karlsruhe's parade, H. M. S. Enterprise, anchored in Tanga harbor, emptied every man jack ashore to parade through the town with fixed bayonets while a seaplane whirred overhead...
Though approval and enaction of a quota system did not seem immediately probable last week, U. S. motormakers, anxious to offset declining sales at home by expanding sales abroad, were worried by possible spreading of the tariff wall against cars and parts. And business conditions in Europe were another source of anxiety. Bearish items of the week included the dismissal of the entire production staff (600 men) from the Ford plant in Spain...
...Catholics who belong to the Apostleship of Prayer what they should pray for. The prayer for July: "Protection against dangerous broadcasting." Rev. James M. Gillis, editor of The Catholic World, explained last week: "We must send out over the air polite, mannerly explanations of Catholic doctrine, hoping thus to offset the attacks of the enemy. . . . The anti-Christians, who rushed pell-mell into radio and made it a devil's instrument will presently get tired of it, after wearing down the endurance of their listeners, but the church will continue when they quit...