Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going into the air-we felt certain the end of the War was near. The only report I ever read on that flight was the one referred to in the London Daily Mail, about a half-dozen lines regarding the flight of 310 planes over the enemy lines to offset a counterattack and drop food supplies -as near as I recall it. Reports among the troops were to the effect that they had gone to rescue the "Lost Battalion" and most general and probably the most correct was the report that they delivered some supplies where they were badly needed...
...that the college is not fulfilling its true function unless it at least offers the opportunity to its alumni of coming back to the campus at stated times to drink again from the fountain of learning and of youth, and to receive a little intellectual stimulation with which to offset some of the stress of our modern world. As President William Mather Lewis has said, the "camel theory" of education, whereby colleges expect their students to drink deeply in their undergraduate days, and then not to need refreshment again the rest of their lives, is completely fallacious. The college must...
Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant, denounced the measure. Shipping men lamented the prospect of reduced foreign trade in their bottoms, spoke of upping ocean freight rates to offset their loss. Theodore Gary of Kansas City, whom Senator Moses appointed as Republican Senatorial campaign cash collector, declared the bill was "highly detrimental" and that U. S. industries would lose more than they would gain from...
...extremely high tariff comes from the Senate with the damning of everyone except the good old Republican regulars. The farmers find in it no relief for their troubles. The heavy industrial flavor of the rate increases will shoot up the cost of living more than enough to offset the agricultural protection. Economists in the cloister are unanimous in condemning the increase at the present time. Even the business men whom the Boston Herald would have settle the tariff are opposed to the new measure. Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan, friends of the President and giants of industry...
...harm they may have done is offset in some degree in the public mind by the knowledge that it is a case of childishness run riot and that the men guilty of the folly have failed utterly to grasp the spirit of sportsmanship, good fellowship and good taste taught by the university they so completely misrepresent...