Word: proffered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...helpful and intelligent criticism from those who are at the moment enmeshed in their own personal problems. Nevertheless students who have genuinely constructive opinions concerning their courses and who possess Platonic idealism which allows them to look upon the turmoil with some idea of objectivity, should not hesitate to proffer their views. Every undergraduate is, unfortunately, troubled with a certain inferiority complex in the question of pedagogy--pedagogy both theoretical and practical. In the matter under discussion, however, which tests every innovation instituted in the College in the last twenty years and which will constitute particularly a criterion...
...Gentlemen proffer Blondes", said Anita Loos...
...still the international cob-web's trembling, Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann of Germany assumed the role of peaceable mediator, intimated that Germany would proffer her good offices between Russia and Rumania in the Bessarabia dispute. He vigorously scouted the "British Bloc" story as follows: "The British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain has never intimated to me a desire to build up a bloc of European nations against Russia, but has, on the contrary, categorically denied to me any such intentions...
Modern Freshman live in luxurious dormitories Chrysler to classes perhaps and at the slightest provocation proffer their opinions on bottled goods and other important questions of the day. Their self assertion is quite painful and appalling to the upper classmen. Whether he gets away with it or not a Freshman now actually dares to step blithely up to cut in on a senior who is dancing with somebody's somebody. This of course will never do but it is done...
...interest and the buzzing and the clamor some Eastern lyceum bureau offered Mr. Burbank $120,000 for a year's lecturing about his agnostic [sic] views on religion. He almost snarled at the insulting proffer, "I am not in this for the money...