Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beasts and column after column of Chinese soldiers slogging and sloshing forward. By Tuesday morning the offensive had yet to begin, and Chinese learned that the Premier had been obliged on Sunday to hand down sentences of death to officers guilty of "cowardice and military blunders" and "failure to offer heroic resistance." Two more "high Chinese Army officers" were announced to have been executed on Double-Ten, others "severely punished...
Hearing the news, Singer Edith Dahl wept for joy in Cannes, tried to decide which of two Hollywood contracts she should accept. At the last instant she turned down an offer of British Long-Distance Flyer James Mollison, who was sued for divorce last week by his equidistant flying wife Amy Johnson Mollison, to fly her to Salamanca, hurried to Paris to await her husband before returning with him to Hollywood...
...Fagg was brought to Washington to replace Eugene L. Vidal as director. He went quietly to wort, reorganizing the bureau, established a safety and planning division that began to study more and better safety devices for pilots. By last week, when President Walter Dill Scott made a tempting offer to him to return to Northwestern, bureau officials and the industry at large were sorry...
...World's Championship Rodeo has no world's championships to offer in calf-roping, steer-wrestling, bronco-riding or any other spectacular event of a rodeo. Nearest approach to such championships are the point scores compiled annually by the Rodeo Association of America (which the Garden rodeos joined last year) on the basis of some 50 rodeos, including the famed contests at Cheyenne, Pendleton, Calgary and Salinas. But the World's Championship Rodeo is champion in one respect, drawing more first-rate performers than any single Western rodeo...
There are still ten berths open to undergraduates or graduates who wish to take advantage of the savings offered by going on the special train. Since sleeper and pullman accomodations are necessary, however, the cost is still high, and the expense was given as the reason that not many undergraduates took advantage of the offer by Edward D. Bement '08 who is in charge of the trip...