Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Electric Company of which Mr. Swope is president has perhaps more than any other great corporation interested itself in the problem of fitting college graduates for positions in the business and engineering world, as witnessed by its maintianance of elaborate training courses. The results of these endeavors should offer a reliable index to the problems facing the present graduating class. And Mr. Swope himself has had a range of business training and experience which will make his judgment of the opportunities in business as a career peculiarly illuminating...
...played against the Green, Harvard was practically unbeatable. If it shows the same form tonight, the Crimson five should be able to cope with the best that Yale can offer. A victory over the Blue on their home court would make the Harvard season a success, despite the rather unimpressive preliminary record of 11 wins and 7 losses...
...Earl Balfour, dean of Britain's "Elder Statesmen," intervened in a debate on India to offer a solemn warning to Indian agitators. He charged them with obstructing the British Government's plan to help India in preparing for full dominion home-rule, with moving people by Western catchwords, with committing a great crime against their fellow-countrymen and civilization. He refused to believe that Britain would leave 300,000,000 people of India to their fate in the hands of irresponsible agitators. He was of the opinion that the gradual extension of constitutional power in that country...
They were disappointed in this expectation; they were offered instead a joint guarantee by Great Britain and the United States of America. With the abstention of America this offer itself lapsed, and the French people have since, with some justification, been seeking for other and more tangible safeguards to take its place...
Radio listeners would like better programs. Some of them offer to help pay leading opera and concert singers who are under contracts which prohibit giving their "act" gratis...