Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week King Ibn Saud, feeling sorry for his guests, sent each Arab League delegate a hand-picked bondmaiden from his harem. Conscientious, westernized Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, secretary general of the Arab League and head of the delegation, politely but firmly declined the offer. Said Azzam Pasha: "It would keep the delegates' minds off the purpose of their mission...
...selling at $360, slightly more than one-third the value of Fifth Avenue stock ($960), the merger calls for four shares of New York stock for every one of Fifth. Result: in a day, Fifth Avenue stock jumped to $1,350. The Bank of New York was willing to offer this $2,300,060 windfall to Fifth Avenue stockholders because it wanted to get its uptown locations...
Fortunately the structure for an altered policy already exists. Both the European Recovery Program and the Brussels Pact will serve well if administered under the reoriented recognition that non-Communist leftist leaders have something to offer their respective nations, a middleway alternative capable of competing successfully with Communist parties and thus of stopping the Russian dominance of Europe that Communists victories inherently involve...
Tonight's parley, unlike its predecessors, which presented speakers one at a time, will offer an "Information Please" format. Three medical "experts" will answer the queries tossed at them by Dr. Bock...
Sinners need not hang back, says the Cloud: "No man needs to think that he is presumptuous in daring to offer himself to God as a contemplative even though he has been the worst kind of a sinner in this life. He may offer to God the meek longing love of his heart and in secret set himself to beat on this Cloud of Unknowing. . . . Our Lord said to Mary [Magdalene], a sinner above all sinners . . . 'Thy sins be forgiven thee.' He said this not because of her deep contrition for her sins, nor because she knew...