Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton increase, which will bring tuition and fixed fees to $1200, will be used to offset an additional $820,000 earmarked for faculty salary increases and benefits. "We have resisted this step by every possible means," explained President Harold W. Dodds, "but have found it necessary to act now in justice to the members of the faculty, administration and the staff whose services particularly deserve recognition...
Complaints about the high cost of College rooms, always frequent, increased this week with the announcement of a flat 15 per cent raise in room rental rates. The raise was considered necessary to offset the increased costs of running the Operating Services...
Foster scored a reverse after his oppo- nent, Steve Smethurst, had taken him down in the first period. In the second period, two escapes offset a Smethurst takedown. In the final period, Smethurst escaped after Foster had ridden him for most of the period to pile up the needed time advantage to gain the draw...
Coach Floyd Wilson then called on his second-string guards, Harrington and Bob Barnett, to put some life into the attack. Harrington then tossed in the next six points for the varsity, to offset a pair of M.I.T. baskets...
Uncle Willie (by Julie Berns and Irving Elman) is Comedian Menasha Skulnik, long a favorite with Yiddish-speaking audiences and lately also on Broadway (The Fifth Season, The Flowering Peach). In Uncle Willie his extraordinary appeal does what it can to offset a miserably sleazy play. Cast as a turn-of-the-century do-gooder who deals in everything from pins to cemetery lots, he marries off immigrant cousins, assumes family mortgages and is good to little children. But above all he gradually converts a feuding two-family house, half Irish and half Jewish, into a bower of sweetness...