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Word: offered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with values of n up to 7,000. But they did not prove that there are no solutions in all cases, with any value of n. At the Uni versity of Gottingen in 1907 the Wolfs-kehl prize of 100,000 marks was established, to reward anyone who could offer such proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eureka! | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...drowned. The tragedy made a doubly strong impression on Bessie Pastor because she did a lot of skating herself. Then & there she resolved that she would some day create a safe kind of synthetic ice-not artificially frozen water, but some other solid compound that would offer a skater a smooth gliding surface. It might have other advantages over natural ice, but in Bessie Pastor's mind its primary quality would be safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Iceolite | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...molds, congeals into blocks 2 by 3 ft. and 1½ in. thick. They can be laid on any level surface-wood, concrete, steel, or whatnot. Since it is impervious to moisture and hot weather, Iceolite can be skated on in any climate and at any season. Its makers offer, by adding the proper dyes, to furnish it in any color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Iceolite | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...school teaching standards. No one may justly disparage the intent of the school that "scholarship may be united with professional understanding and with personal fitness for teaching." But as a student in the school since the inauguration of the new program, I have a few criticisms and suggestions to offer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

...born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right and should continue. I told him what I could teach him wouldn't help him much . . . and he agreed. Never have I regretted the outcome. He died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Skirted Conductor | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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