Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With trainmen already on strike in Texas the railroad situation approaches a crisis. To help meet this crisis in our own territory an Emergency Committee in the University has been created to organize Harvard volunteers who are anxious to offer their services. Should the trainmen walk out the students must have been previously trained in the fundamentals of railroad work if they are to be able substitutes. For this reason the railroad officials have made arrangements to hold classes in Cambridge later in the week to explain the duties involved in firing an engine and in acting as conductors...
...resources of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and facilities to training men to operate the railroads the event of a strike have been placed at the disposal of the Commonwealth Massachusetts by the executive committee of the corporation which sent a letter to Governor Con making the offer M. I. T. is the first of the colleges to offer in services...
...resolution manifestly implies that the United States should offer to decrease its araments or at least to limit them. It would be suicide to take such a step before the many baffling and perhaps insoluble problems which confront the Conference are satisfactorily settled. It is necessary to clear away misunderstandings, to change traditions centuries old, and to suppress the greed and lust of nations before any steps can be taken to effectively end war. The Open Door in China, the desire of militaristic and war-made Japan for expansion, and finally the innate craving for ascendency which exists...
...offer a few suggestions along these lines? Why can't we give our opponents a regular cheer as they come on the field? Two weeks ago we did not give any cheer for Holy Cross before game time, and Saturday we were slow in sending across a "regular Harvard" for Indiana. We are the home crowd and as such I believe we ought to welcome our opponents with a whole-hearted cheer, no matter whether they come on the field before or after our varsity...
...uses them, and as a result, she and her husband are separated. Two years later she is discovered in New York, living on the proceeds of the sale of her jewels and by her wits. Various matrimonial opportunities present themselves, and after considerable cold calculation, she finally accepts the offer of Rudolf Soloman, selfmade man of unusual qualities. Thayer reappears, rehabilitated morally and financially--and then comes the misfit conclusion...