Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...added an earnest warning. "I have no trick answers and no easy solutions," he declared. "I will not offer one solution to one group and another solution to another group. The American people have a right to expect honest answers and I propose to give them...
...Freshman advisers have been known to offer advice. Some of it has even been of use. But there is a reliable betting establishment that will offer odds of five, two, and even that such will not be the case with your freshman adviser. In any event choose your courses with a certain amount of humility. You have a lot of time before you make up your final course list. Don't be dogmatic about the choices you listed today. Shop around. If you find something that you like better, you can change your course without charge before October...
...Heathen. Old Zvi, her father, would not live in the land Ana rules. Two years ago Zvi came to Ana asking her help for a group of Rumanian Jews. She received him amiably on a Saturday afternoon. Coffee and cake was brought in. Old Zvi exploded: "How dare you offer me hot coffee on a Sabbath! Have you gone mad?" Ana, trying to calm her father, led him to the kitchen and showed him the electric percolator. She explained that, since no one needed to strike a match, no religious law was being violated, but he called the percolator...
...time he treated his ballplayers with almost fatherly solicitude (his own son was later killed in a B-29 crash), kept pace with their problems on & off the field. Under Southworth, the Cards won three consecutive pennants, two World Series. In 1945, Billy left St. Louis for a fat offer from the "Three Steamshovels," as Boston calls the rich contractors who own the Braves. The team jumped from sixth place to fourth, then to third last year. The delighted Steamshovels tore up Billy's old contract, gave him an even fatter one (his present salary...
...response to an offer of free toothbrushes made by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, acting for Weco Products Co.; the new brushes, offered in a well-bristled combination of scientific research and sales promotion, were Weco's Dr. West...