Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, March 9, p. 14, discussing Governor Henry Johnson and his confidential secretary, Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, erred. Knowing your attempt to be fair always . . . I offer you some additional information...
...Walter Reed, head of the U. S. Yellow Fever Commission, to subject himself to the bites of mosquitoes that had sucked the blood of men ill with the fever; in this way the Commission hoped to find whether the mosquito carried the deadly germ.* He made the offer knowing that his chances for life were less than one in 20, if he became infected. That night was nearly 27 years ago. Last week scientists and doctors opened a campaign to raise money to help onetime Private Kissinger. Not long ago friends had found him nearly destitute, broken in body...
...feminists in the American Woman's Association. Women have come into the business world with a contribution of their own to offer . . . we are self-supporting . . . we are going to build a 26-story building for professional and business women . . . you [the assembled] are now our partners . . . your $200 has purchased each of you four shares in the project...
Premier Poincaré, boastful only of birds-in-the-hand of his own shooting, did not mention that Soviet Ambassador to Paris Rakovsky approached Foreign Minister Briand, last week, with a tentative offer to repay 55,000,000 francs ($10,615,000) per annum on the Tsarist debt to France. If this long frozen source of revenue has actually begun to thaw, Frenchmen may well rejoice; but it was rumored that the Soviet Government comes once again with a fair-seeming offer, but intends to hold out once again for further credits from French manufacturers which France is loath...
...place of the 17 specific fields of concentration now in effect in the Department of History, a new list has been compiled. By this change a large number of the present fields have been subdivided, and the scheme of things so revised that, commencing next fall, the department will offer 25 specific fields...