Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning the meeting was held. It lasted less than 30 minutes. M. Bérenger made a concrete offer and a little speech. Unlike M. Caillaux's debt efforts, there was a minimum of publicity. Not even M. Bérenger's speech was made public. His offer was said to be better than Caillaux's. The American Commission took a few days to consider the proposal, and an aura of hopefulness floated over the White House and Treasury Department...
After consideration, the Commission sent back M. Bérenger's offer, asking him to> revise it so that larger payments would be made by France in the early years...
...must repress all the dangerous theories which can wound the morals and health of our people. . . . Large numbers of children in the families, which are the greatest riches of the Italian nation, offer the most powerful instrument for Italy's expansion in the world...
...second purpose of the new department will be to offer courses to undergraduates in Abnormal and Dynamic Psychology. The lectures will be given by me next year, and will be clinical in their nature as far as possible. That is, I intend to bring actual cases into the lectures to illustrate what I am talking about. I expect, from my past experience that a great many students will also offer themselves for experimentation along hypnotic lines...
...this is by way of extreme optimism. It is an open question whether it is at all valuable to the world to sweat that it may have the best that universal education and popular government have to offer. To many that best is a level of mediocrity; a level, moreover, to which brilliance must lower itself that dullness may prosper. These skeptics have their plausable case. Yet it may truly be said that society is confronted with a condition and not a theory. Democracy is in vogue; universal education in full swing. The improvements to be made must begin with...