Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer was made to the H.A.A. to sponsor radio broadcasts of the seven home games of the 1938 eleven, but despite the action of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, which voted in favor of the plan, it was refused because it was contradictory to University policy...
...case of the Yale broadcasts, it is believed that the offer came from an oil company, and also that the money obtained would have been put into the Athletic Endowment fund...
...fountain-pen until you see the whites of their eyes," is the advice of older students with high records for getting instructors' signatures, and they offer simple strategy. The student desiring a particular signature should dress himself as a member of the maintenance department and enter the teacher's apartment on the heels of the maid. Sooner or later the victim, too, will go into his room to get his mail, and, if the student's disguise is a good one, will not notice anything until the intruder grips him by the elbow and takes one of the three types...
...general feeling." As every businessman knows, "the general feeling" is more important in selling any security or making any financial commitment than the details of a registration statement. And the general feeling of businessmen last week was that President Roosevelt had yet to make a tangible offer to the utilities, a fortnight's headlines to the contrary. And that in failing to win the confidence of utility men, he had still to convince watchful Business that he was as yet philosophically or psychologically capable of tossing the nation's currently sinking commercial life something beside an anvil...
...forbidding, contains no trace of modernistic tricks or formulas. As he once remarked to his publisher (in Swedish) "Här i utlandet fabricemr ni cocktails i olika külorer, och nu kommer jag med rena källvattnet" ("Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure cold water...