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Word: offered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kelley was referring to the three straight defeats his team has administered to the Crimson. Both of the last two games were close, and a combination of factors tonight will offer the varsity its best chance for victory...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Opportunity Knocks For Sextet Tonight with B.C. at Watson | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

...Councilor Edward J. Sullivan gave his support to Vellucci's order, stating that he felt "a private developer can come up with a much better offer." Charging Harvard with attempting a "land grab," he said, "I know they are fast trying to put me out of business in my district," the area in the neighborhood of Dunster House and the new Leverett towers...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: City Council Divides Over Sale of Land | 2/17/1959 | See Source »

...powerful Kenya Federation of Labor. Elected to Kenya's Legislative Council, he now boycotts its sessions in protest against the kind of equality in which the blacks hold 14 seats to represent 6,000,000 people and the whites have the same number for 60,000. "We offer the Europeans the hand of friendship," he says, "but let them make no mistake about our determination to win our freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: SIX LEADERS OF BLACK AFRICA | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...strident as a bluejay's cry), or as high as $2,500. Between the two extremes are dozens of sets in the $100 to $500 range, many of which make for better listening than more expensive monophonic units. Thinking of the already cluttered American living room, manufacturers also offer "self-contained stereo"-units with both speakers housed in a single cabinet. But two-speaker cabinets, unless they are six to eight feet long, can give only an illusion of stereo depth and definition (what one manufacturer calls "stereotype" sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rise of Stereo | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...accompaniment of sacred fire and chanting. A derivative called mescaline, subject of experiment by psychiatric researchers and mystical dabblers, including Aldous (The Doors of Perception) Huxley, produces in devotees a vivid immediacy of experience that the Indians consider far superior to the liturgy the paleface missionaries have to offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Button Eaters | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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