Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disheartening tie by Princeton was offset Saturday when Princeton defeated Yale by the score of 1 to 0. The Crimson soccer team will travel to New Haven on Friday to Defend their big three soccer championship...
DEATH IN FIVE BOXES-Carter Dickson -Morrow ($2). Grumpy, engaging Sir Henry Merrivale solves a labyrinthine puzzle involving poisoning and a stabbing. Ingenuity and humor offset a tricky, confused plot and far-fetched solution...
...show that the business world has learned the lesson of combination. But labor has here tofore failed to apply its slogan, 'in union there is strength,' to its press. . . . A most promising start has now been made. . . . The possibilities are unlimited for building a national press to offset the great trustified propaganda machine which the employing interests have established for the manufacture of public opinion...
...Last week the report for 1937 was filed and the public's annual guessing game got under way. Majority guess: Although Ford produced 1,314,369 cars & trucks (10% more than in 1936), profit & loss surplus increased only $5,419,264 (72% less than the 1936 increase); this, offset by a sharp $8,514,335 dip in reserves, indicated that in 1937 Ford Motor Co. (not considering possible dividend payments) lost $3,095,071, compared to a $26,426,698 profit the year before...
...Since then the circulation of the Catholic Worker has mounted to 125,000. Last week the paper called for volunteers to distribute copies in Union Square May i, under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin, "to bring to those taking part in these demonstrations some measure of light to offset their materialist idealism." The editors confessed they had only 92? in the bank, issued one of their periodic appeals for funds. Subscribing themselves "Lovingly and confidently yours in Christ the Worker," they wrote: "We have reached rock bottom, we have piled up bills these many weeks. So we beg your...