Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transferred to the embassy at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). In 1912 he was made counselor of legation in Peking and was charge d'affaires there when the War broke out. He worked hard to prevent Japan from entering the conflict, even going so far as to offer Tokyo the cession of Tsingtao on his own responsibility; the Berlin government, however, refused to sanction the step. Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma was to warn his government of the approaching Japanese declaration of war. This he did by sending an ingenious, uncoded...
When in 1925, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and his brother Kermit accepted the offer of the Field Museum of Chicago to go into Chinese. Turkestan and the Tian Shian Mountains through India and across the Himalayas, they chose the naturalist as a member of the expedition...
Since you hold unflattering opinions of the Bureau, I should like you to consider one splendid compliment which the Bureau received from a Yale graduate. In June, 1920 I was offered the job of tutoring this Yale man's son, the offer coming through the Bureau. I accepted, and later, when the opportunity presented itself, I asked my employer why he was willing to entrust his son to the charge of a Harvard man. His answer was that he was willing to sacrifice his Yale feelings to the confidence he had in the Harvard Employment Bureau. ARTHUR C. WATSON...
...more opportunity for the novelist to draw on human consciousness. The English country-side particularly appeals to the author. In America everything is rough, ready, uncouth, forlorn, and dilapidated. There is a feeling that American civilization is only temporary, to which England's age and historic and literary tradition offer a striking contrast. That is why literary figures such as J. G. Fletcher, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound have taken up their residence in England...
...rumorists even went so far as to represent President Coolidge as being silently indignant at his chief agronomist for not telling about this plan. But Secretary Jardine denied that Florida fruit-men had made him an offer...