Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Facts triumphantly cited in here pamphlet do not support the Woolley claim that the Trustees were sexually biassed. Seventy prominent women came up for examination and were rejected during the two year search, but only after three women turned down the offer did it go to a man. Nonetheless Dr. Woolley stands on record as desiring a woman, any woman, in preference to a competent man. Such opposition before he takes office must be acutely embarrassing to Dr. Ham. In reality by breaking the century old tradition of its greatest fort the shows that the feminist movement has come...
...that he must be crazy if he didn't think that the operation should be performed right away. 'Well,' said he, 'we have to make an arrangement.' The 'arrangement' was that he wanted me to charge $1,000 for the operation and offer him a substantial portion. Over the week end he was going to persuade the child's family that $1,000 was a fair price...
...secure preferred shares of these companies Edison will offer new Edison stock in exchange. Likewise, the two-thirds interest in Public Service not held by Edison will be acquired through an exchange offer. Edison stock, now selling at $133 per share, will be split four-for-one, the authorized issue doubled to provide the stock needed for the exchange offers. To redeem stock not exchanged and to refund some debts of Edison and its affiliates, a $13,000,000 issue of convertible debentures was authorized...
...started early", the commission has advocated a slow beginning, with a year set aside for conditioning in cooperation with bureau chiefs, before students are admitted in September 1938. It has thereby avoided the temptation to rash action that so novel and exciting an adventure is bound to offer...
...slick American cars. He had even changed his policy about yacht racing to meet popular demands. When George V died his will instructed that his yacht Britannia should be sunk unless one of his sons wanted to race it. All four sons, including the present King, turned this offer down and the Britannia was sunk (TIME, July 20). George VI, however, lately revealed he is willing now to be a "Sailor King" like his father, is expected to take to yacht racing...