Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he was a man, in the '80s Harry Dean bought the schooner Pedro Gorino in Norway. For a while he traded, making money, saving it. Then one day he met a certain Portuguese official and was surprised to hear him say, after a little palaver: "I am offering you the vast territory of Portuguese East Africa including the city of Lorenco Marques for ?50,000 sterling." The territory was cheap because it stood between English and Boers, who were having a war. Dean wanted to snap up the offer with the aid of the tycoons...
Leading them through the trying days had been Joseph N. Weber, their president, captain, champion, advisor. But even "Joe" Weber had been unable to offer any sure-fire suggestion for a way to combat the "menace" of machine-made music in the cinema houses of the land. Even "Joe" Weber seemed to see nothing but musical doom, and the one resolution which was issued for publication after the secret meetings contained nothing more cheerful than pride, nothing more tangible than a prediction...
...there is not a smell of potato-soup." A servant-girl's Utopia, that! Thus the love of wife and husband becomes a subtle struggle, noble v. peasant. When Hans drowns, she takes up with a dwarf of a man whose only attractions are his title, his philosophy, his offer to take her to some island made for dreaming...
...this time in Cambridge there lived Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gilman, who desired for their daughter a college education equal to the best Harvard could offer. Having Miss Leach in mind, they took the problem of the education of their daughter and other young women to Professor and Mrs. Greenough in November...
...extent of $30 or more, can become Sinclair stockholders at the $30-per-share figure (Sinclair closed last week at 38). The employes' stock plan, approved at last week's annual corporation meeting, set aside 225,000 shares of common stock, 75,000 shares of which are offered during the present year. Another 75,000 will be offered next year and the final 75,000 in 1931. These future shares will be priced at 10% less than the average Stock Exchange price for the last three months of the year preceding the offer...