Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of legs, Nancy Hanks and the disintegrating influence of the Rue de la Paix as set forth in French Line advertising. Nancy was a fine woman; in that I am in entire agreement with him. If she were alive today, probably the French Line would be proud to offer her a cabin de luxe on the lie de France and I would personally shepherd her from shop to shop in Paris. I believe that her son - who was a real man with a man-sized viewpoint - would be genuinely pleased, no matter how many pairs of stockings she bought...
...this conference ... is to develop a keener appreciation-of the educational problems common to the whole of Canada. .... A more special purpose is to draw the widest possible attention to certain aspects of our western civilization which are crying out for consideration. . . . The older countries [invited to the convention] offer something of a challenge to the voice and speed of our western civilization. . . ." The contributions were not startling. Rabindranath Tagore deplored the constitutional western tendency to material thinking. India's Laurence Frederic Rushbrook Williams, educator, stressed Empire thinking. Of most interest to U. S. citizens was the suggestion that...
Combining the fundamental elements of football, basketball, and soccer, a new game, speedball, is being added to the University's intramural sports this spring in an effort to offer a fast, open game attractive to men who are not interested in the more intricate sports which require arduous training...
Under the inspiration of Dwight L. Moody, the Northfield intercollegiate conference assumed a form intended to accomplish two things: to convert college men to Christianity and a better interpretation of that intangible essence; and to offer them the inspiration necessary to carry the light of their discoveries into the colleges from which they came. Distinctly evangelical at its birth, the conference has more recently come down to the practical plane of college life in general. At the present time, the purpose is, in the words of ardent supporters, "to provide a week given over to intelligent, broadminded, consideration...
Donors of the manuscript were Trustees George Willets Davison (Central Union Trust Co., Manhattan) and Albert W. Johnston. To procure it Trustee Davison had sent his bank's Berlin representatives to Frau Einstein with an offer to buy. Frau and Dr. Einstein, having no other offers, sold (sum unmentioned). They said they would use the money for welfare work among German university students...