Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tributary does deserve praise for its efforts throughout the past season and for its selections for the current Festival. The old maxim that it is always better to see any play than merely to read it can be examined during the next two weeks when the "Trib" will offer such seldom-seen plays as "Troilus and Cressida" and "Measure for Measure." This production of "Othello" will be prosecuted again this Saturday night and also next Wednesday...
...summer of 1925 I offered Mrs. Riddle $20,000 for Anesthesia Faith of Hillstead, whose record of 19,741 milk, 1,112 fat was then the record of the breed. My offer . . . was declined, and the cow died without ever having another calf. When Mrs. Riddle founded Avon Old Farms she by no stretch of the imagination owned a cow worth $60,000 or one-tenth as much...
...slaughter. The rest of the village's 700 dwellers surrendered or fled to caves in the nearby hills. For the first time, the Irgun and Stern terrorists were fighting against Arabs as a tactical force. While the Zionist General Council was accepting the Irgun's offer to serve under general Haganah direction, the Jewish Agency denounced the terrorists for the Deir Yesin massacre. It called on them to "realize the depth of the shame you have inflicted on Jewry, to whom such acts are utter abomination...
Picking Up Butts. It was Rocky Graziano's return to the ring after nine months of exile. Banned in New York for failing to report a bribe offer, banned in Illinois and 13 other states as a wartime deserter, he had gone to the Washington boxing commission and explained that business about being AWOL: "Do I look like the kinda guy who'd duck a fight? They put me to work pickin' up cigarette butts and orange peels at Fort Dix. I wish to God now I picked 'em up." Rocky promised to give...
...strong party which opposes the Communists can make use of their most influential offer, land reform, for fear of losing its strongest backer and wealthiest landholder in the country, the Church. Communists have been able to win power by playing on the one peasant devotion stronger than Catholicism, their love of the land. CP members all over the country have been visiting the poverty-stricken farms, asking the peasants what they need, and promising fulfillment if they vote for the Democratic Front. They insist the anyone can be a Communist and a Catholic at once...