Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of this sort of personal tragedy around me," stated Mr. Frost: "It may come from either victory or defeat-either one may distort one's personal standard of values and produce disillusionment. But although individual sorrows are unfortunate, I feel that they offer the only true subject for tragedy. The tragedy of the 'forgotten man,' of economic misfortune, can never reach great heights. The drama of deep personal woe, which is nobody's fault, but which comes from an inevitable accumulation of adversities, is the only legitimate subject for real tragedy...
Howard Mumford Jones, most prominent member of the English department at the University of Michigan, has been tendered and will accept an offer to be a full professor at Harvard next year, according to strong though unconfirmed rumors yesterday...
...School faculty has recently turned down the offer of the Deanship...
...several terms offered France by Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the two most important are, first, the offer of a 25 year non-aggression agreement and, secondly, the German decision to re-enter the League of Nations. The attention of statesmen all over Europe is centering on these two rather long and sharp thorns in the olive branch extended by the Fuehrer, and the solon of France are carefully scrutinizing them under their high-powered microscopes to see wherein lies the rub. Clearly there is something which has aroused the suspicious of Flandin, Eden, Benes, Litvinoff and the other members...
...casual observer, what could seem more desirable or opportune than the offer of 25 years of peace by Germany? Twenty-five years in which France could develop her industries, encourage foreign trade and if necessary, gather around her a group of willing and eager allies to dispel forever the clouds of war which hover overhead now. And in those twenty-five years, Europe is thinking, what would Germany be doing? She would be rearming, strengthening herself militarily; economically; politically. Ten years and she would leap at the throat of France like a mad yet desperate dog, ready to rend from...