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Word: offer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the temperature hovering between freezing and 28 degrees, skiing conditions this week have been as favorable as at any time during the winter. Cannon Mountain, Franconia Notch, Pinkham Notch, and Waterville Valley, all in New Hampshire, offer the best skiing for this weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWNS HAVE BEST SKIING FOR WEEK-END | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

...regard to your news story of Saturday, March 11, "Trotskyites Disrupt Communist Meeting," I should like to offer a few corrections in the interest of more exact if less sensational journalism. Your story tells how "Continual remarks such as 'It's a lie' punctuated the remarks of the speaker." Now being responsible for that discourteous remark I should like to explain how and why it was made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

...situation in the dining-halls, Mr. Ogden, who spoke at that meeting made no pledge of support from the Student Union as a whole. He did, however, promise the cooperation of the Labor Committee which had had an opportunity to review the situation and arrive at a position. We offer this correction only to indicate that the decisions of the Students Union are arrived at democratically. Since the Sunday night meeting, however, the Executive Committee of the Student Union has had a chance to review the case and affirms its sympathy with the aims of the employees. The following recommendation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

...Federal Trade Commission issued cease-&-desist papers against Angelo Siciliano (naked name: Charles Atlas), mailorder musclebuilder. Their orders: that he stop using the word "free" in connection with a ten-volume Sex Encyclopedia offer (customers get them after they have paid up all of a $20 fee for lessons), stop stating that his course relieves skin diseases and constipation, tone down his claims that he can make his customers look something like himself ("World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" in a leopardskin loincloth). Hopping mad, Strongman Atlas gritted: "Why don't they leave me alone with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...wanted-unification of the three lines and a guaranteed 5? fare. But for 18 years the Unification Express has been rattling past stations, stalling in dark tunnels. Suddenly last week, to the general public's surprise, it slowed for a stop. Tentative acceptance of the city's offer to buy the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. for $175,000,000 brought unification closer than it had ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Transit Trouble | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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