Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like the budding of a plant. The motive force must come from within. It is a mistake to say, as they are saying here at Dravrah that they are educating men. They are not, and never will. All they can do here is to offer facilities for use. Education is always self-imposed...
...Connor simply said he had had audience with Henry Ford, from whom he had wrung a tentative offer to take 400 of the listless bottoms at something between $1 and $7 per ton (scrap price). At $3 per ton, the entire listless fleet of 5,700,000 tons would bring about $17,000,000. Mr. Ford would probably pay about half that for about half the fleet-all is quite vague. Mr. Ford thought he might use 30 or perhaps only 10 for commerce; the rest for junk...
...offer aroused little enthusiasm among the other members of the Shipping Board. It was received with some favor by business men, one of whom hoped that the Shipping Board would follow the boats into the junk pile: "Let the tail go with the hide." Furtively, shipowners, native and foreign, prayed for the demolition of the ships because, bad as they are, they constitute a vaguely potential threat of competition...
...through its representative, Congressman Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, announced its willingness to sign a convention providing for the publication of all armaments statistics. The offer was received with mixed feelings. Poland and Rumania dissented because of their proximity to Russia (unrepresented at the Conference). The matter was ultimately referred to committee...
...offer their congratulations on behalf of the remnant of the Army and Navy came General von Seeckt and Admiral Zenker. To them the President said...