Word: offering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appears that when the Government coal subsidy expired a fortnight ago, the Coal Owners' Mining Association pasted up notices which, in legal sense, were no more than offers of employment to miners at a reduced wage scale. The Coal Miners' Federation interpreted these "offers" as "lockout notices"-presumably on the theory that, since the miners had announced that they would not work for less than the wage in force under the subsidy, they were automatically "locked out" by the offer of a lesser wage. On this basis, the Miners' Federation ordered the "coal strike," as distinguished from...
...severe enough to have killed them off. One generation of nomads has spawned another; continued poverty has bred shiftlessness; until today, if you stop at a romantic sylvan encampment in the New Forest and converse with its chief personage-usually a hawk-faced great-grandmother, who will offer you dirty tea and whine for a shilling-you will find that none can remember when any ancestor of the band first "took to woods." They have no legends...
...offer is wholly voluntary, and the man who avails himself of it inours no obligations. However, on account of the final examinations which Phi Beta Kappa men also have it will help them if students will make inquiries now and not wait until the last possible minute...
Weary of submitting the teeth of his gift horse to the suspicious scrutiny of Egypt's political leaders (TIME, March 1 et seq.), John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week withdrew his offer to build in Cairo and endow a ten-million-dollar "Temple of the Unfolding Life of Man." A finishing touch to the farce was added by Mr. Rockefeller. His last letter to King Fuad of Egypt explained that the gift was withdrawn "to relieve the Egyptian Government of embarrassment." Still fumbling about for reasons for Egypt's reluctance other than the seemingly true one? Egypt's political misgivings...
...offer was made in January. The terms of the gift were redrawn by Premier Ziwar and his distinguished colleagues and returned to Mr. Rockefeller (via his representative Professor James H. Breasted, famed Egyptologist) (TIME, May 3). Mr. Rockefeller acquiesced in Egypt's terms?which it then repudiated, evidently fearing something deep and scheming beneath such apparent magnanimity...