Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carry on alone. Dr. Negrin's plane was reported ready to carry the former Premier out of the country and many other Loyalist leaders in Valencia and Madrid prepared to flee. At least 10,000 Loyalists felt their lives sufficiently in jeopardy to want to take up the offer of a ride on British and French warships to neutral ports...
...delegates, the greatest difficulty in carrying out the plan seemed the lack of an offer by Germany to supply the departing Jews with foreign currency. Consensus, however, was that Führer Hitler had promised more than even optimistic Director Rublee had hopes of getting when he first went to Berlin last month. Having submitted Führer Hitler's plan, Director Rublee resigned, was replaced by League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sir Herbert Emerson...
...learned the craft of engraving and wrote his Poetical Sketches, the purest lyric poetry of the century. At 24 he married a girl who could neither read nor write. Blake might have had worldly advancement but it scared him. In 1795, when someone got him the offer of a post as Tutor in Drawing to the Royal Family, he not only declined but gave up all his drawing pupils in panic...
...literary-minded, it offers an opportunity for development, with the added satisfaction of seeing one's work in print that will be read by hundreds of breakfasters. "I advise and strongly urge all who wish to write to take part in a Crimson competition" was Professor Copeland's confirmation of this. To busy-bodies, the Crimson offers a legitimate excuse to mind other people's affairs. For undergraduates who like to get around, there is close contact with the men who run Harvard, as officers, professors or students. For men with special interests in a vast variety of subjects--politics...
Bill Daugherty, breastroker, for the Red and Blue, will offer the Crimson butterfliers a good race in the 200 yard event. He has been swimming it under 2:38 this season, somewhat better than the local efforts. Coach Ulen will probably pit Walker and Waldron against him, retaining Max Kraus for the medley...