Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coordinator Berry's offer, cracked an associate, was in tune with the times but sounded less like Edward VIII's offer to give up the throne than like Mrs. Simpson's offer to give up the King...
...competition, the Athletic Association has dealt in highly intelligent fashion with a situation that was rapidly becoming untenable. Faced with a schedule which presented no natural rivals and denied the stimulation of an objective match toward which to point, the boxing team was like a solitaire artist, unable to offer its wares to competition. Now that the sham responsibility of meeting incompetent and undesirable opposition has been lifted from its shoulders, the team can turn its attention to the wealth of intramural activity that lies in store...
...Minister but a woman darts forward to thrust at the Archbishop's limousine a placard: "ABDICATION MEANS REVOLUTION!" Cinema houses take an official hint, and newsreels of the King & Mrs. Simpson hand-in-handing are suppressed. The official B.B.C. radio station tells prominent King's Men who offer to broadcast that "no time is available," but such commentators as Mr. Vernon Bartlett go unmistakably pro-Baldwin in references to the Sovereign who, for the first time in British history, finds on the air such statements as that he is "erratic." It is represented to His Majesty that...
...Orleans, drivers who park near the coliseum, midtown auditorium or uptown stadia are pestered by urchins or oldsters who offer to watch cars for a small tip. If it is refused, they slash tires, put gravel in the gas tank, disconnect the carburetor. In San Francisco, boys cluster around fashionable restaurants, try to watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police...
...find that we cannot take as much time off for skiing as we might like to and so aren't able to get where the really good skiing is. However, there are many golf courses and short trails within an hour's drive of Cambridge that offer a good chance for an afternoon's sport and are open to the public...