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Word: offerred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a three-day session, the Conference disbanded, after the adoption of resolutions calling on the Federal Government to supply immediate flood relief and requesting congressional and presidential action on the prevention of further floods. It was expected that the resolutions would offer some suggestions as to flood prevention, but the committee on resolutions was apparently so divided between adherents of levees, reservoirs, reforesting, spillways and various combinations of these methods that no specific resolutions were adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Oratory | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...assumed a more majestic and disdainful attitude than the average second-hand bookstore proprietor. With a regal gesture he dismisses book after book, apparently ignorant of the fact that in his window is emblazoned the legend--"All Your books bought here". Grudgingly, almost in a philanthopic manner, he will offer six pence for a volume which will appear bravely on his stalls next fall marked one dollar--reduced from three. And the slaughter of the innocents continues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...little wildness, surpassed his previous showing in the game won by Pennsylvania on their in- vasion of Soldiers Field. He allowed four hits in all, and until a slip in the eighth inning threatened a shutout. After collecting a four run lead for Sanford the Penn team continued to offer fine support until the next to the last inning when Harvard pushed over its only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON INVADERS LOSE TO QUAKER NINE | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

President Lowell, demonstrating an admirable willingness to continue in his efforts to remedy what he believes to be an artificial state of affairs, has repeated the offer of the Corporation. Whenever five hundred men signify their desire for a dining hall the University will erect it. There is apparently no valid reason why the student attitude should change by next fall, but if such proves the case a hall will be built...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROOF OF ONE PUDDING | 6/10/1927 | See Source »

...themselves to eat in a University dining hall next year the attempt to put through the-construction of such a hall before next fall has been abandoned by the University. While it will be impossible to carry the project any farther this spring, President Lowell has announced that the offer made by the Corporation to erect a hall on Mt. Auburn Street as soon as 500 students have signified their willingness to eat there will still hold good next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO ABANDON DINING HALL FOR PRESENT | 6/10/1927 | See Source »

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