Word: offseting
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...athletic plants. Even a rise of twenty-five per cent in gridiron receipts would bring the H.A.A. income to less than half the 1929 figures. In addition to this, the rise of professional football, voted by the nation's sportswriters as the most significant event of 1934, tends to offset "recovery" in amateur football...
...family had paid taxes on that house for 50 years to procure fire protection, yet in the only fire we have had, your department, through inexcusable carelessness, was unable to protect me. What redress will the city offer me in the way of freedom from further taxes to offset this calamity which has happened to me? I would like your reply before I take the matter to court...
...grant that parts of my native South Carolina (Ridgeway) are "flat, sandy, scrubby, down-at-heel," but these parts are offset by the plantation river homes of the low-country, Charleston with the churches, homes and public buildings of unsurpassed architectural charm, gardens, gates, doorways and streets that equal any in the world. The beauties of Italy, Amain, Sorrento, Naples remind me only of Charleston and its surrounding "low-country...
...wondering," broke in Minnesota's Schall. "if the address by Mrs. Roosevelt did not offset that of Father Coughlin...
...operating profit of $5.86 as against $3.25 on a production of 5,536,000 tons the year before. It was clear that Steel's management had at last got something of a grip on the expenses of its sprawling empire. What was needed now was sufficient volume to offset annual depreciation of more than $40,000,000 and other charges that last year amounted...