Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago where proofs of editorial and advertising matter are pulled on high-gloss enamel paper for each international edition. These pasted-up pages are then photographed, and a set of the so-called film positives is dispatched by air to each printing point overseas, where the local printer makes offset plates directly from the film...
...cannot afford the collection plate, reported Long Beach (Calif.) Sociologist George M. Logan after querying 30,000 elderly persons. "More than half reported attending church less frequently than they did ten years ago. Transportation difficulties and low income combined with social pressure for financial support of the churches have offset attendance...
...could have their board expenses equitably reduced. Since this would entail no more bookkeeping trouble than separating the student body into 14-meal and 21-meal categories, and would still give the kitchens an idea of the daily food requirements, any increase in accounting expenses would seem to be offset by the more just distribution of the board costs...
...remote South Sea islands. The U.S. had the biggest slice of the world's daily circulation -more than 55 million-but in printing 344 daily copies per 1,000 inhabitants, it trailed behind Britain (609 per 1,000) and nine other countries, including Japan (with 399). To offset any smugness among newspaper men over the steady growth of the press, the survey produced another statistic: the world's radio sets have increased even faster, to hit 250 million-and within the year should top daily newspaper circulation for the first time...
...Ways. The job depression is not offset by the boom in symphony work. There is only one orchestra in the country-the Boston Symphony-that could be said to work the year round. Members of other major orchestras can count on 3-8 months' work, and the great majority of secondary groups perform only.a dozen or so times a year. The major symphonies in 1954 paid instrumentalists an average of only...