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...insufferable little snobs of our offspring-not through the influence of the teachers but through the influence of other class-conscious pupils-and what is more intolerable (and intolerant) than a child-snob? But I would risk that (and it is a mighty unworthy parent who is unable to offset Phariseeism at home) if I could make sure of securing for my children the influence of teachers to whom their job is not just a pay envelope and a step higher on the ladder of respectability than the rung to which they were accustomed. But we, like so many others...
...well-meaning, self-important hick from Azusa, who discovers life and love in Greater Los Angeles. Side-kick Tracy is as tough and tight-lipped as ever, and seems just the kind of trouble-shooter you'd like to have fix your worst enemy's telephone. The pair offset each other nicely, and one is very glad that the girls they fall in love with are room-mates, because double weddings, even by a J.P., are such...
...order to offset the shrinking in the amount of outside work available to undergraduates since prosperity began Hoovering around a hypothetical corner, the Temporary Student Employment Plan was instituted. That it has been generally successful in alleviating the depression for students is hardly to be questioned; and it may be accepted as equally axiomatic that the Plan should be continued. The question is where is the money to do this coming from; and neither God nor Mr. Conant seem to know...
From the party that sent him first into politics, the stolid thick-necked peasants of the Lower Austrian Bauernbund, Chancellor Dollfuss got a popular demonstration to offset Nazi propaganda. By special trains 100,000 of them came up to Vienna, stomped under streaming banners eight abreast round the Ringstrasse. In the railway station the little Chancellor barked excitedly: "This shows how ridiculous is the allegation that the people are not behind the Government. . . . You are my plebiscite...
While the new engraving code has resulted in a considerable rise in the cost of engraving the book, that loss has been more than offset by a cut in the printing estimate, with the result that expenses will be no more than those for the 1933 Album...