Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undoubtedly aware, I paid some $60 for the subscription six or seven years ago. . . . Despite the limited supply, I realize that the demand, or lack of it, is the determining factor in this type of transaction and I will entertain any reasonable offer for my holding...
With a mischievous twinkle in his beady eyes, Gargantua the Great, featured circus star, admitted last night that he had refused Yale's offer of a football scholarship. "My career comes firs," he thundered...
...Policy Committee; Francis R. King '39 of the Publicity Committee; Malcolm Jonna '39 of the Membership Committee; and Robert Homans '40 of the Finance Committee. The new constitution was passed, providing for an opportunity for all who join to work on committees by next year. Their aim is to offer students favoring the present system of free private enterprise a chance to organize their opinions...
...having ordered over 6,000 modifications of the original plans they had "approved." Since well before last Christmas, driving, dictatorial Air Secretary Lord Swinton had been the target of assertions in the largest British papers that he must and would resign, and a suitable occasion would certainly be to offer Swinton as a scapegoat for "unpopular American purchases." The Viscount has been a fixture in Conservative cabinets off & on for 15 years, his friends were confident last week that the Prime Minister will not ease him out, and Swinton is stoutly defended by the leading journal of British sky-fighters...
...occasion to snap at the Government. Tartest comment was provided by Chairman Edward Joel Cornish of National Lead Co. When le blamed the New Deal for a 30% slump in National Lead business, a stockholder piped up to ask: "If you disagree with President Roosevelt, have you anything to offer except to go back to where we were?" Retorted Mr. Cornish: "When I get lost that is what I try to do-go back to where I started from...