Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collegiate rivalry for star athletes is a long-standing custom. But today competition between colleges for just plain students is so sharp that many institutions entice even nonathletic high school graduates with pictures of girls in bathing suits, offers of tuition rebates. One Indiana college went so far as to kidnap three freshmen from another institution, make them a better offer. The freshmen accepted...
...professionals feel that they have been suffering from having nobody but themselves to practice with. After a brief glimpse at the local amateur field they chose the Crimson as being liable to offer some ready opposition...
...History I exam books, to be returned with the grade, was one bearing the address "Boylston Hall Library. Cambridge," and another "South Lake Trall, Palm Beach, Florida." The former was got picked with the idea of playing up Boylston Hall as an ideal winter resort, but rather to offer contrast instead...
...climax the ice cream guzzling championship disputed in Harvard by David H. Mitchell '41 and Homer D. Peabody '41 and other unsung would-be heroes, the Conco Engineering Works of Mendota, III., has come forward with an offer of a one gallon 'Dolly Madison" electric ice cream freezer to the final winner of the contest...
...manufacturer at first thought a half gallon freezer would be sufficient for any winner, but on re-examining the past records of the caters, he decided that "it would be much more in line to offer the gallon size...