Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles) in 57 hr. 11 min., swimming time, beating by 6 hr. 24 min. the record made in 1921 by Mrs. Corson.* She lost 4 pounds, used 72 pounds of fat, ate lumps of sugar soaked in whiskey. Having handed Mayor Walker a letter from Governor Smith, she offered to swim back if the Mayor wanted to send a letter to the Governor. Her offer was refused. She comforted her crying children, announced that next year she would swim across the channel "and back," took a bath, ate food enough for two men, and went to a dance with...
...biggest, Chicago the wickedest, Boston the dullest--but Detroit is the richest city in the United States. By a careful and crafty compilation of figures the Detroit Free Press shows that the individual income tax is largest per capita in the home of Henry Ford. It offers no numbers to illustrate what Detroiters do with their money after they have earned it, but one may presume that if the home town does not offer sufficient entertainment, they are at liberty to depart for points less wealthy and more amusing. Fortunately one does not have to remain on the scene...
...painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, pottery, glassware, textiles, brassware, pewter bronzes and ironwork. Although the objects submitted will be subject to approval, any articles having intrinsic art value will be accepted. As this is the first exhibit of the kind, there are no established traditions, and students may hesitate to offer their cherished bits, for this reason, it is asked that it be understood that the actual market prices, if such there be for works of art, have no bearing on the value for the exhibit...
...Harvard is puzzled by the commissary problem," Mr. Roth said to a CRIMSON reporter, "the industrial division of Waldorf Incorporated will gladly offer the services of one of its representatives to study the situation and offer a solution. I do not mean that we intend to enter the CRIMSON contest but that we would like to have on expert on feeding problems offer his opinion...
Everyone interested in the welfare of the student body must be pleased at the offer of a prize for the best essay on the feeding of undergraduates; and must hope that it will help to remedy the most unsatisfactory condition in the social life of the University. The students seem to have forgotten that gregarious animals and civilized men feed together, and that meals have a social as well as a nutritive value. Under the recent habit of eating around they are not aware of the pleasant hours, the interesting talk and the lifelong friendships that come from the club...