Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things considered, we can see no toward from these measures that would not at best be offset and at worst outweighed by their detects. Amateur athletics are not something plastic adjusting briefly to popular indignation then resuming their neo professional shape. De-emphasis must be permanent and thorough, despite incidental irritations. We hope that the Ivy League presidents in meeting assembled this January will not tamper with their current program, especially for so little purpose as the Princetonian suggests...
...permitted. Your ultra-high tariff has, up to now, blocked this mutual equation . . . Up to the beginning of World War II, this gap was plugged principally by the shipments of gold to Fort Knox, in place of goods. Since the end of the war, the dollar shortage abroad was offset by temporary devices, such as Marshall aid, at the expense of the much overburdened American taxpayer, to whom much credit is due. Absurdity can go no further, because incoming goods into the U.S. could have, and should have, met the difference...
...that "you have to be right more often, dollarwise, than you're wrong. It's not just a case of drilling more oil wells than dry holes. You can make a series of mistakes which may cost you a total of $5,000,000, but you can offset them by being right the one time when $9,000,000 is involved...
...sounds like something Noel Coward might have written in prep school, while a second skit relies on that hoary staple of a dozen revues--the parody of famous playwrights' styles. Even the spectacle of Miss Davis as a hillbilly crone and a lethargic slattern in gym shoes can't offset a script which comes up with a little horror like Flying Saucers, featuring a trio of spacemen (Meissen, Delit, and Spode) wearing tea cups...
...split between national and local tickets in the state developed when Stevenson failed to carry Boston by a substantial enough majority to offset heavy Republican voting in the rest of the state...