Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The full-page advertisements of the Saturday Evening Post stated that the Post had never been sold with " premiums " of books or other merchandise, and that it has never made price-cutting " clubbing" offers. This is a challenge to every publisher to sell his periodical solely on the basis of...
The Harvard Cooperative Society has put up a permanent challenge cup known as the "Cooperative Trophy" to be awarded each year to the winner of the tournament, while the runner-up will receive a tennis racket. The entrance fee will be 50 cents per person.
Professor Montgomery of the University of California views the problem otherwise. He told his mixed class in English that 7,000 of the 10,000 students at Berkeley " should be attached to the handle of a pick or a frying pan." Though limited to young Californians, the challenge was taken...
CHALLENGE - V. Sackville-West- Doran. Whole governments are deftly juggled to form a pseudohistorical background. The drama of Eve, whose passion is masked by her frivolity; of Julian, her cousin, whose cause she betrays for love of him; of Kato, middle-aged and stalwart woman who dominates him, is played...
Most of us have little idea of the extent to which we depend on the past for our opinions. Look over a book like Fraser's abridged edition of "The Golden Rough" and you will be surprised at the number of customs that have come down from the Stone Age...