Word: proffered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been officially ratified. Rudolf Hecht, ABA President-elect, and three other ABA officials called at the White House. When they departed, Banker Hecht remarked to newshawks: ''We told the President that we were four ball players for the all-American team he proposed. . . . He accepted our proffer...
Foreign Minister Yoshizawa's first official duty was to proffer yet another explanation. He answered Secretary Stimson's note of Jan. 7 which invoked the Kellogg anti-war pact and the Nine Power Treaty guaranteeing China's integrity. Other nations failed notably to back the Stimson stand, but Kenkichi Yoshizawa returned a soft answer: Japan would never, never dream of annexing Manchuria, and as for the policy of the "Open Door" in China, the Japanese Government promised to maintain it "in so far as they can secure...
...Midwest origins but his performance is valid in other respects. The magnificently, minutely true characterization which Helen Hayes gives to Leora is one of the events of the year. Good shots: rats, outlined in fire, leaving a burning brush village; Leora's reply to Arrowsmith's proffer of marriage: "Have you got a nickel? I want soft music...
...note, under the heading People in your issue of May 25 short commentaries on Coolidge, and proffer this...
...Edward S. Harkness has made another great contribution toward starting a new chapter in the life of the American small college. What Woodrow Wilson, as a university president, dreamed of for Princeton, President Lowell, with the aid of the unexpected proffer from Mr. Harkness, has made a reality at Harvard; and President Angell has now, by virtue of the continuing generosity of this son of Yale, the opportunity of reviving in his institution "the social advantages of the small Yale College of "the earlier generation amid the intellectual advantages of the great modern university...