Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your hands, not ours, is the peace which Spain needs to recover and to end the bloody war which is weakening it and placing it at the service of invaders. Choose! If you offer us peace you will find generous Spanish hearts. If you continue to make war against us and against yourselves you will meet opposition worthy of the mettle of our combatants, strong and implacable as the steel of our bayonets. Either peace for Spain or a fight to the death! We are ready for either. We are independent and free Spaniards. We have not on our conscience...
After the heavy snowfall yesterday skiing conditions have improve in most regions from poor to good. Franconia Notch, Pinkham Notch, and Intervale, all in New Hampshire, offer the best skiing in that order...
Included in Withington's correspondence for the last week are a letter from the Animal Resoue League deploring the inhumane deed, an offer from the Goldfish-eating Club of New England for membership, and offer from the Raw Egg Club, an invitation for an exhibition form Roxbury, and the above quoted letter with picture enclosed from Pratt, Kansas...
...pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie Donahue was supposed to ride a float and offer flowers to Ferdinand the Bull, but at the last moment his mother wouldn...
...milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges are not available, the committee suggests that scurvy can be avoided by steeping any nonpoisonous green leaves in boiling water and making tea. Greatest lack in the diet is fat. For this less important element, the committee could offer only the lame suggestion that "fat [should be added] in such quantities as are available," trusted that famished civilians would scramble for peanuts, olives, soybeans or fatty fish...