Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hence the ground plan of Jarvis Court will have plenty of open, landscaped courtyards to offset the massed effect of the buildings, while the dormitories themselves have enough variation in design to be "uniform but not regimented...
...announcing the campaign, Dean Griswold listed as its objectives "comfortable living quarters to free students from dependence on expensive, over-crowded, and deteriorating Cambridge rooming houses; increased scholarship funds to offset increased tuition fees; teaching fellows to aid in providing more group and individual student work; funds to facilitate individual Faculty research and to make possible staff investigations of important large-scale problems; and funds to relieve student tuitions from having to bear the whole burden which increased costs are casting on the Law Library...
...states--Iowa and Wyoming--the Republicans are perspiring freely in efforts to maintain the status quo, but in four others, they are more secure. Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper has enough popularity with independents to offset the advantage his rival, Virgil Chapman, will have in Barkley's candidacy. Homer Ferguson in Michigan, and Curley Brooks in Illinois are two GOP veterans who can reasonably expect to return to Washington, while in Oklahoma neither Republican Rizley nor Democrat Kerr can claim much advantage...
...Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, however, was maneuvering so that he could take full advantage of an offer from Herriot & Co. whenever they were willing to pay his price. His present tactics called for grèves tournantes-revolving strikes -which hit one industry after another, creating enough damage to offset ECA help to France but limited enough to hold the door open to overtures from Herriot...
They are expected to consider particularly whether there is a need for immediate and drastic economic legislation in the form of federal controls and taxes to offset the economic imbalance created by such projects as the Marshall Plan and rearmament...