Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young's Way. Passengers needed little selling. The practically smokeless diesels provide a cleaner, smoother ride than steam. And railroads found that the high initial cost of diesels (the $600,000 is twice that of a steam engine) is offset by more efficient use of fuel, fewer layups, lower repair costs and less roadbed damage...
...surprise of the evening was Milt Buzby, who captured top honors in the 50-yard freestyle to provide an unexpected five points for the Crimson. This offset an unlooked for Tech uprising which netted the home team first and second places in the 150-yard backstroke event...
...task in his new command would be bigger and bleaker than it had been in the northwest. Even Fu's military and political sense could not entirely offset the lack of prompt U.S. help. But Fu's appointment would be well regarded even by one of China's sternest critics. U.S. Secretary of State Marshall had said: "Fu is a real soldier . . . when he says he can do something, I believe him." Last week Fu said: "We will move quickly, keep active on all fronts...
...formulas there is sometimes an absence of form. And it could stand more variety: only the clash between Blanche and Stanley (brilliantly enacted by Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando) gets real emotion and drama into the play. As in much recent writing about the South, the ugliness is easily offset by the fascination, and the South itself seems warm, vaporous, even visible in Streetcar, like steam on a windowpane...
Early in the evening a crimson-clad baud flooded a segment of New Haven with flyers emblazoned with President Conant's picture and advocating "Bryant Wintergreen for President." Few people could guess immediately whether this prauk originated in Cambridge or at Yale, so the total offset was not startling...