Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Staff Payrolls. News staffs have been cut about 25% by conscription since no exemptions are now allowed except for oldsters and key men. But salary savings are partly offset because most dailies pay conscriptees up to one-half their pre-war salaries...
...recent years the trend has been toward offering House membership to all Juniors and Seniors desiring it at the expense of the Sophomores. This has been partially offset, however, by the establishment of the system of nonresident memberships...
...Natural Sciences, slight drops in Chemistry, Biology, and Bio-chemical Sciences were offset by an increase of almost 100 per cent in Engineering Sciences, which has 58 concentrators compared with 32 last year...
...Britain the raid did much to offset the depression caused by Nazi successes in the Balkans. The raiders were greeted as heroes. They reached home laden with souvenirs: framed photographs of Hitler and Goring, swastikas, the flag of the supply ship. The proud possessor of the flag spread it across his chest and said: "The hardest fight I had was to get this flag, and the fellows who provided the competition were my comrades...
...somewhat stabilized, it is hoped, by deferments of medical students and students in chemistry, physics; and other fields vital to defense research. Such departments may also have tension relaxed slightly by federal grants for work of national importance. Moreover, if losses from the teaching staff just about offset the decline in student enrollment, as might be expected, an economy for the University will naturally result...