Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young professor suddenly grown rich. He was Palmer H. Craig, 29, head of the Mercer physics department, a doctor of philosophy only these seven months. While working up his doctor's thesis at the University of Cincinnati he had made an invention. Now the Westinghouse Electric Co. had offered him $100,000. The invention, simplicity itself, was designed to replace the batteries and vacuum tubes of the ordinary radio receiving set. It consisted of ten thin plates of bismuth,* piled one on another, with wires running between them, the whole protected by sulphur and contained...
...students of the University have been offered an excellent opportunity to obtain full golfing privileges on a course in Brookline," stated Major F.W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the Athletic Association, yesterday. "The Weld Club has offered us regular membership rights for the cheapest possible rates. If the students signify their interest, the H. A. A. will take every possible step to obtain the administration's permission to purchase the necessary memberships. If the plan is passed, the expenses for playing would probably amount to only a dollar and a quarter a day. Such an offer should not be passed...
...opportunity of obtaining a University of golf course has been offered by the Weld Golf Club of Brookline. This offer will be discussed in a meeting in the Varsity Club at 7.15 o'clock tonight of all those interested in golf...
...contemporary strongboy James J. ("Gene") Tunney. The champion, returning from a camp in Maine, gave an interview on literature to a reporter in the train and stated that he had spent his last evening in camp reading Richard III. In Manhattan, one Humbert J. Fugazy approached him with an offer to fight "the outstanding heavyweight contender" (Jack Delaney or possibly Jack Sharkey) at the Polo Grounds, Tunney to receive 37½% of an estimated $1,500,000 gate...
Whether a proper analysis or not, the 1926 situation gives one explanation for the offer the Ford Co. made its dealers last week. For $60 the company will put any 1925 model Ford, no matter what its condition, in first class running order. It will reupholster and repaint such a car, rebuild the motor, and then guarantee the whole job for three months. Thus a dealer can offer high value for a broken down 1925 Ford on a trade-in or he can sell remade cars at bargain prices...