Word: offseting
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...printing will be done by offset lithography on two high-speed, roll-fed presses which will dry the printing ink instantaneously by speeding the web of paper through infra-red rays. Incidentally, the magazine use of this equipment is such a new development that in a day when no new presses can be built we could not have started this venture if we had not located our second press 2,000 miles away in Detroit-and if our printers had not obtained WPB permission to move the press and other equipment to the Coast by pointing out all the transcontinental...
...four wartime sessions in Parliament he has painstakingly and in great detail laid down the wartime record of his Government. But in the chamber which he has so often used as a sounding board, he has not yet stated a national issue to offset the declining popularity of his Government. As the Gallup polls show, his administration, like all other wartime governments, now suffers the usual political reaction to regimentation and control...
...offset this caution, Wendell Willkie planned more speeches, more trips. Said he: "Voters are watching to see if we have the imagination and courage...
...found various ways to call Duplessis a liar. But his plot still had vote-getting possibilities: 1) it appealed to anti-Semitic prejudice already fostered by Fascist elements in Quebec; 2) it revived an old French-Canadian suspicion that open-door immigration is English Canada's device to offset the expanding French-Canadian population of the province; 3) it implied a threat of new competition in predominantly agricultural Quebec...
...from a Mexican century plant, is a malodorous, milky-looking sour liquid which sells for ten centavos (2?) a liter, is swished down by low-class Mexicans as a substitute for water, which in Mexico is scant and bad. Some scientists believe that pulque's yeast and vitamins offset the unbalanced diet of chili, corn and beans, act as a counterirritant to hot peppers. But that is the best that can be said for it. Its production is unsanitary. Its sale is in filthy, squalid pubs. Its consumption produces a stumbling goofiness after the second or third liter...