Word: offer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tell Mr. Hearst," Postmaster General Farley had said, "that I am not interested in any offer from him, even if he should bring it himself with his pockets full of $10,000 bills...
...lost for good, were invited to move out of the hotel, their quarters to be used for more lucrative operations, including a garage. Temple Church was as homeless and penniless as any evicted tenement family, but it had kind neighbors. Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco's largest synagog, offered the use of its building on Sundays. A small Methodist church offered the Templers a place to worship in between regular services. And San Francisco's most vigorous Congregational church made what Temple's pastor called an offer of "marriage." Temple accepted. Last Sunday for the first time...
This two-course scheme involves tremendous difficulties both in equipment and personnel. It would require new laboratory space, and an as yet non-existent staff, but would offer considerable advantages to the student. First, repetition would be avoided. Secondly, practical experience with various techniques, though not of long enough duration to produce proficiency, would serve to impress on concentrators in each field the existence and utility of the techniques of the other, in two full-course rather than five...
...donned his black topcoat, his grey fedora, picked up his brief case and set out for the yards of Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. It was Mr. Abbott's duty to put that dilapidated 1,600-mi. railroad on the auction block. By court order he was to offer the road at "the main entrance of the division superintendent's office at the Cedar Lake Shops." Arriving at the precise spot on the second floor of a grimy yellow brick building, white-crowned old Master Abbott pulled out a bound document, adjusted his pince-nez, began to read...
...that point Mr. Abbott muttered: "Adjournment is now taken.'' Picking up his brief case, he stalked into the offices, looked around for an empty desk, hung up his hat and coat, got out more documents. No one paid any attention. He had 14 parcels of property to offer. At the end of each description he said: "How much am I offered for properties described and constituting parcel so-&-so?" The clerks did not even look up. After a pause Mr. Abbott would say inaudibly, "no bid." Finally he picked up his documents, returned to wait...