Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immigration problem is a perennial weed, which always flourishes in new countries whose natural resources, cheap land, and high wages offer inducement to foreigners to settle within their boundaries. In the United States the problem has again sprung into life with the proposed changes in quota as established...
...subscriber to your publication for two or three years past, I feel entitled to offer some criticism. Your repeated references to an unfortunate lynching which occurred here during the early hours of Oct. 8 has given this community quite as much unfavorable and unsought publicity as necessary. Why not review some past racial affair in East St. Louis, Chicago, Washington and an Ohio city? They are all closer to your office than Aiken. That we are civilized is best attested by the considerable number of America's best families who for more than 50 years have been spending their winter...
...cringe and smirk, and when you have an apology to offer you do it like a man. You have the attitude my father held, that of standing square on your heels and looking anyone...
...pronounced these words, Frederick Alfred Wallis, New York Commissioner of Correction, crumpled a slip of paper in his hand and scowled earnestly at the reporters. It was rather a surprising speech, for Commissioner Wallis was moved to offer this dramatic sacrifice not for liberty, home or the flag, but merely for a mixture of lipoids, proteins and vitamins called "narcosan...
...Habima Players of Moscow offer the same play in Hebrew. Their production is notable for its frank theatricality. Not the slightest regard is paid to ordinary, familiar realities. The players confess themselves actors of parts, paint their faces with unusual pigments in strange designs, interpret their mysterious emotions before impressionistic scenery. As artists detached from the world on the other side of the footlights, they breathe unmistakable intensity into their roles. Anna Rovina, who plays Leah, the body haunted by the restless spirit of her dead lover, is heralded as one of the world's greatest actresses. In gesture...