Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last 22 years?which signifies nothing, since this is a mere juggling of fictitious terms. Calculating interest at 4¼%, the present value of the proposed payments is just about 50% of the debt as it stands, or about 15% more than Caillaux's best offer...
...arrangement, and a strike was only averted (TIME, Aug. 10) when the present Baldwin Conservative Government granted a £20,000,000 coal subsidy, which sustained the 1924 wage level artificially until last week, when the subsidy expired. During the week Premier Baldwin persuaded the Owners' Association to offer a national minimum wage 20%* higher than the pre-War scale, if the Miners' Federation would accept an increase in the hours of labor from seven to eight. The miners stood by the slogan of their fiery Secretary, A. J. ("Emperor") Cook: "Not a penny off wages, not a minute...
...grind of the period. He cared nothing for sports, clubs, clothes, or any of the finer things his alma mater had to offer...
...American students, the works of these authors have the intrinsic value of being indigenous. And this idigeneity is of two-fold advantage. In the first place, American works often offer American readers an easier comprehension of literary materials, those employed being more familiar than sources plumbed by English writers. But in view of the richness of English sources and the catholicity of literature generally, this advantage is slight. The second is rather more substantial. A sufficient knowledge of American literature is all but essential to a balanced estimate of American society. If untutored in American literature since grammar school days...
...infamous, shocking. The duty of the Carnegie Tech student council lay clear before it. Clothed with great dignity, it met behind closed, guarded doors and received Dr. Church to hear any explanations he might have to offer. Dr. Church was full of contrition. With rapt sincerity he said: "There is nothing at Carnegie Tech that can be called drunkenness. . . . Like Hamlet, I have shot my arrow o'er the house and hurt my brother. . . . All the statements attributed to me which reflect upon our student body, I withdraw. ... I express to you, one and all, my deep sorrow. . . ." He went...