Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...departments of the CRIMSON offer editors opportunities for promotion, and the higher offices afford valuable executive training. Work in each department also provides candidates with a chance to improve their ability in writing, photography, or business. In the department last named candidates will make numerous acquaintances with Boston and New York advertisers which should prove profitable if they later intend to engage in business near those cities...
...Shipping Board wanted to dispose of them on any terms. The Western Marine and Salvage Co. came forward with an offer. On the calm waters of the River James, lay 218 ships, the pride of the U. S. wooden navy, built at a cost of $235 million. The Salvage Co. has taken an option on the entire lot. Ten are to be burned. If the iron and copper salvaged from the ashes repay the effort, the whole fleet will be bought...
...Spence School, just off Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and The Finch School, farther uptown, lead the U. S. city finishing schools. A year or two at either is thought good for Western girls, but Spence has also a large Manhattan clientele. Both offer preparation for college, but are attended rather for their adjacence to the theatre, the opera, the Metropolitan Museum. Both are considered "ultra."* The headmistress of Finch is Mrs. John O'Hara Cosgrave. Clara B. Spence, strong and gracious of personality, died last spring...
...Bakelite holder, extinguishes it in a Bakelite ashtray, and falls back upon a Bakelite 'bed, all that he touches, sees, uses, will be made of this material of a thousand purposes. Books and papers will be set up in Bakelite type. People will read Bakeliterature, Bakelitigate their cases, offer Bakeliturgies for their dead, bring young into the world in Bakelitters. Dr. Baekeland is a man in middle years, erect, rugged, taciturn, with the sensitive mouth of a field marshal and the cold eyes of a philanthropist. Of medium height, courtly, dignified, he adopts the old-world manner, shuns personal...
...less illuminating. Radio, fiction and cinema pages were at parity. Macfadden's "health page" was unique but nothing to worry about, so they waited to see if Macfadden's disconnected, irrelevant "human interest" stories, in behalf of "clean living" and "the whole truth," would offer any competition to their own flashy news columns. They knew that if money could sharpen this competition, Macfadden had millions. They knew that he "expected to make a few million dollars for myself and associates" and would therefore force the fray. They realized that if The Graphic turned out successful, many another such...