Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beacon compass went awry, that night, they used the stars. Next morning they landed at Wheeler Field near Honolulu, having completed, in 25 hours, 50 minutes, the longest over-water hop* ever made by man. As honest servants of the U. S. Government, they promptly refused a $10,000 offer made by the San Francisco Examiner for exclusive rights to their story...
...Their offer to the B. of L. E. was to take over the management of eleven banks and seven investment companies which the Brotherhood owns. The value of these institutions totals $89,000,000. To this the Mittens proposed to add a "substantial amount of new capital" when they assumed management...
...Resolved, that the Department of Arts and Archaelogy of Princeton University hereby place on record its profound satisfaction because of this happy increase in the facilities and opportunities in the division of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and here by offer its hearty congratulations to its sister department, conscious as it is, that by reason of the close and sympathetic cooperation of the two departments, the prosperity of the one so signally insured by the completion of the new Fogg, cannot fail to be a stimulus and encouragement to the other, and be it further resolved that a copy...
...depressing state of race suicide among the classes best fitted sociologically. Mr. Phillips in his most recent study of the question advances along somewhat different lines, aiming at reproduction rates within one particular occupational group, --namely three graduating classes of Harvard College, 1899, 1900, and 1991. His findings, then, offer no hope in an alarming situation of increasing sterility among the college graduate class, but they do indicate some very significant and happy trends in the fecundity--rate operations of this particular group...
...religious-scientific arguments, which a world busied with crime, catastrophes and aviators has of late ignored. Forthwith President F. E. Robinson of the association promoting Bryan Memorial University at Dayton (Scopes trial), Tenn., sent a 48-word telegram to his Promotional Director Malcolm Lockhart in Manhattan, ordering him to offer Dr. Machen the presidency of the proposed Bryan Memorial University. Promoter Lockhart made the offer; told the newspapers. Dr. Machen harassed, unhappy, kept silent...