Word: tender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...created as a sort of super-holding corporation, to acquire, first all securities, then all land and the physical property of production. Let nothing be expropriated. Let everything be paid for at market prices. By an ingenious system of pyramiding (the issuance of non-interest bearing, legal tender, industrial notes on property already acquired) the whole of the world's wealth could be acquired for about 20% of its value without cheating anybody. What have we finally? A great world-wide producing corporation. The entire population would live in a few cities. Every bit of land would produce whatever...
Those lips, those tender tired hands that sleep
Yale, in the personnel of her team has three outstanding assets. Captain Roidle at first defense has been impregnable and his play has been of consistent. All American calibre. Anderson, Sophomore goal-tender, has contributed many brilliant stops which have held down opponent's scores; and finally McKeon has been a constant scoring threat at attack. These three players will bother the University considerably next Saturday. On its side Harvard can point to no single brilliant lights; Coach Herbert is rather depending on a team which will play and fight as a unit, and he is bending every effort this...
...learn with astonishment that the player-writer in general and I in particular, am regarded by the committee as not only no longer an amateur, but as an "evil influence" in the game. I tender to you my resignation as a member of both [Olympic, Davis Cup] squads. . . I certainly do not consider myself an 'evil influence' in the game, but your report clearly states...
Then comes Cynthia?gay, wise, tender, apparently untouched by material standards. But in the end she also fails him?too much the product of her heritage and environment to escape them...