Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thayer's Virgin does look wrapped in taffy, the composition is static and the whole atmosphere is fuzzed with sweetness. But the picture's virtues more than offset its defects. It is magnificently drawn, subtly radiant in color, and a straightforward expression of the artist's reverence for girlhood and love of children. It can speak, gently, to the heart. Such works as Thayer's have been unjustly eclipsed in a critical age that winces at any expression of pure and lofty sentiments. Luckily, laymen are not so biased...
...trouble. Some of the reasons listed by 83-year-old Irwin Vick Shannon, once a dean the sunspotters : "Cheap money, huge governmental spending and enormous building activity have largely offset the usual [bearish] effects of low sunspot activity." Nobody thought that stock prices would go up forever. In fact, Wall Streeters were looking for a good-sized "technical" reaction-simply because the market had gone up so fast with hardly a breather. But no one thought that it had reached its peak. Just as Americans had become accustomed to;-an evergrowing economy, there was no reason why stock prices, which...
Jones said the plan might work a hardship on teachers in large courses, but added that the closer relationship with students would help offset inconveniences. 'More scholarship money will also be freed by the cut in office expenses," he said...
...leaders, in fact, is moving at a rapid rate. "Everyone seems closer here than they are in the houses," said the chairman of the Dudley Committee, it's one of the really good things about the Center." The drive for a united housed feeling not only serves as an offset to Dudley's physical disadvantages; it is also in general opposition to the University's speculative plans for integrating the commuters as non-resident members of the houses...
...many canceled subscriptions do you have to tabulate each week as an expression of the ire of McCarthyites over your point of view of their hero? . . . My renewal subscription to TIME for the next three years, which goes into the mail today, can offset three cancellations by Joe's joes. And I hereby take time...