Word: offsetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most conspicuously absent) were represented at a Preparatory Unemployment Conference. Their goal : a 40-hr. work week treaty for all the world. Labor's delegates demanded a cut in working time without a proportionate decrease in wages. Capital's delegates stood firmly for a wage cut to offset increased production costs. Britain pooh-poohed "this phantom of a 40-hour convention" whereas Germany warned that the alternative was government doles for years without end. It was estimated that the world is already spending $120,000,000,000 per year to keep its jobless alive...
...Crimson, starts participated. In the league match on the preceding afternoon against the Business School, the college A team eked out a scanty triumph of 3 to 2. In the feature game, the ability of Robert Grant'35 to return many of the neo-aces of Patterson did not offset his inability to prevent the ball from coming off the back wall, and he bowed before the former Harvard squash captain's experience and finesse. The blasting drives of J. G. Cornish ocC, spelled the immediate defeat of Clark. The last three matches were somewhat colorless, apparently none...
Scholarship Shrinkage Offset...
...less and the repayments from loans somewhat slower, especially among the recent graduates who have found it difficult to obtain employment. At the present moment, it is estimated that the total shrinkage will be about $18,000, although it is reasonable to expect that some of this will be offset by additional gifts during the year and by residuary bequests which will become available. The loss in income available for scholarships and loans will however, be more than offset by the sums of #40,000, made available for temporary student employment and $5,000 for special House aid, so that...
...courses or an extension of the function of the Adviser to include greater responsibility than he now feels for the intellectual development of his students would involve considerable expense if much improvement is to be made, Fortunately, the large increase in the number of new men has been partially offset by a shrinkage in the Sophomore enrollment...