Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agents of the Raj have had considerable success in frightening Indian public opinion with the notion that the rise of Hitler and generally of Dictatorship in Europe is a growing trend which makes the Constitution now offered India by Britain positively the country's "last chance for Democracy." In elegant and persuasive terms the speech of the Marquess of Linlithgow presented the positive and pleasant side of these ominous and negative fears. "By the joint statesmanship of Britain and India," said the Viceroy, "there is about to be initiated in this country an experiment in representative self-government which...
These two meet while climbing mountains in the Tirol. Dr. Prochaska of Feldbruck is an impassioned adherent of Hitler to whom the mountains offer an almost mystic attraction: "It had been these mountains here and the others like them that all his life had wooed him from the streets and the houses as the thought of women wooed him. He knew their sloping icy shoulders. . . . He knew the chains of them well; the Ortler group with the tall lovely leaning body of the Ortler casting her shadow from exile on them, and the Venediger looking towards the lagoons...
Even harder to discover than the compilers is how these slightly nebulous gentlemen are going to be able to offer all this for only $1. Because that's all it will cost. You send your check to the "Register," Box 342, Cambridge and back comes the book, all of which has a slightly theatrical sound, and just goes to show that people really do rent post office boxes in Cambridge
...Department labors under a minimum budget provided by endowed funds, while at the same time it is bending every effort and extending hope that in the year following the Tercentenary money will be found to do justice to a part of the University which in every other way can offer a student unparalled opportunities...
...outstanding on the day new shares are sold, so that there is no dilution of equity. For its commission the selling company adds about 5% (reduced from 8%). On repurchases from stockholders who want to sell the trust pays the full liquidating value, though it has the right to offer 1% less. Last year it had to repurchase only $700,000 worth of its shares...