Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assume in advance that he is too dangerous a character to admit to these shores because of his Communist beliefs would offer an affront to the British people. The way to spread such doctrines is to make martyrs of the spreaders. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church in more ways than one. I do not want to see the right of free speech more abridged on American than on British soil...
Undoubtedly he had done well at London (TIME, Sept. 7). The British had asked France to pay ?20,000,000 yearly for 62 years on her War debt. Caillaux had offered ?10,00,000. The British came down to ?16,000,000. Finally they offered to compromise on ?12,500,000, provided France would not pay any other creditor (meaning the U. S.) more proportionately. M. Caillaux said "Yes, that will do" and went back to France with the British offer...
...understood that M. Caillaux will offer equal terms to the U. S. He may well be in training if he expects to induce the U. S. experts to agree to a similar settlement...
With the General near, the Reichswehr goose-stepped, saluted, and were proudly inspected amid a furor of monarchist enthusiasm. Alas, as night fell and the General departed, the peasants of the region (Polish sympathizers) would offer the resplendent Reichswehr only pigpens as billets, withstood weary soldiers with pitchforks. Enraged, the authorities arrested hundreds of peasants and temporarily confiscated their property for military purposes...
...interest received by donors is free of income tax until its aggregate equals the principal of the gift; income to the donor is guaranteed by the entire resources of the recipient institution; the institution enjoys an immediate increase in capital, especially desirable in contingencies such as the Eastman offer above cited; likely donors may be induced, and given opportunity, to make bequests, and see their fruits, before dying...