Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motion to report the measure. To all intents and purposes the bill was supposed to have been disposed of this session of Congress. But the Muscle Shoals fracas was not past. Only a few days later Senator Heflin, a sup porter of the Ford offer, summoned a witness. Senator Norris, an advocate of Government operation, sat listening in critical silence. The witness was Mrs. E. A. Edmundson of Decatur, Ala., one of the towns in the Muscle Shoals region. Ingenuously, she began her testimony. She smiled genially and recalled that in 1922 Senator Norris and Senator Heflin, with other Congressmen...
...more than 10,000 tons. With eight new 10,000-ton cruisers authorized, we could go to such a conference prepared to bargain by giving up something. Otherwise, we should go to such a conference asking other nations to limit their cruiser strength, but with no similar sacrifice to offer on our part...
...Adored by H. L. Mencken, Gilbert Seldes and F. P. Awood Broun, he will need all his humor and poise to keep from showing off. Thus far he has succeeded. The delightful thing about this book of short stories is not the amusing burlesque framework, ridiculing those textbooks that offer to teach illiterate soda-clerks to earn $25,000 in the writing business; nor is it in the tales themselves, which are most divertingly couched in "the American language." The insolent humor of the book lies in the fact that between the framework and the stories there is absolutely...
...purpose of the colony, which is holding its second session this summer, is to offer an opportunity for the discussion of the major problems of modern civilization. Speakers of international prominence will address the conference, and there will be numerous discussion groups...
This colony of college students at Woodstock will enter upon its second season next July. The purpose of the colony is to offer opportunity for a frank discussion of the most obvious and recurring dilemmas of modern civilization. It is run under the suspires of the National Student Forum, of which the Harvard Lib earl Club is a branch...