Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late that he scarcely dares kiss his wife or buy a shirt without consulting the latest edict on that subject issued by his benevolent government, now impersonated by Mussolini. But for a man with the capacity for government possessed by that dictator, human beings and their actions do not offer sufficient scope for action. From them be now turns to a lesser form of life and decrees the abolition of the common house-fly, a creature that infests Rome no less than any other city. Every citizen will be expected to co-operate and fines will be imposed on those...
...salon cars. The plunge was momentous because King Amanullah, whose Realm lies between India and Russia (see Map), holds the balance of power in Middle Asia betwixt the British Empire and the Soviet Union. He has just learned secretly at London how much Great Britain is prepared to offer for his friendship. Last week it was Russia's turn to cap the British bid and to dazzle King Amanullah with a display more imposing than the English pageantry and war games in his honor which have just cost the British Exchequer some...
...LIVING BUDDHA-Paul Morand-Henry Holt ($2.50). Spengler and Keyserling have turned toward the Orient for destruction and salvation of the Occident. Far less seriously, Paul Morand, scintillating French diplomat-novelist, shows the East has much to offer the West, and the West something to the East, but that incompatibility of mind and heart will prevent any contact close enough for destruction or salvation...
...York will turn out with all the fireboats and miles of paper streamers to greet him. That most skilled of welcomers, Mayor Walker, will offer him the keys to the city and he will find more of his countrymen on its streets than there are in his own capital. He will lecture on Rumanian politics and people will applaud him. He will attend dinners and be lionized. He will intrigue to his heart's content and no one will say him may until he has lived here for a while. Then he will decide that there is no reason...
...experiment. But the Reading Period has not yet completed its own justification as a fixture in the Harvard curriculum. The increase in honor grades of two percent, the increase of one percent in satisfactory grades, and the decrese of three percent in grades below the level of C would offer insufficient space for the seal of official approval, even if grades were to be considered the ultimate test of intellectual accomplishment. Of more significance was the increased demand for books at the Coop and in the Library, especially in the latter, where the delivery desk did twice as much work...