Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night Harvard's Little Napoleon was summoned to a private dining room in the Hotel Continental, were a group of his friends, both faculty members and students, were gathered at the festive board to tender a gesture of appreciation and friendship. After the dinner a handsome pipe was presented to the guest of honor...
...tender-hearted Adolf Hitler's first acts after he became Chancellor in 1933 was to declare the northmost end of Sylt Island in the North Sea a "bird sanctuary." Last week the hardy islanders, who for long months have ably kept their mouths shut, decided that the secret of Sylt no longer need be kept, what with Realmleader Hitler blustering about the parts he is assembling into new naval armaments in violation of the Treaty of Versailles...
Young Grass. Previous tests on the nutriment value of cereal grasses, said Dr. C. F. Schnabel of Kansas City, Kans., were misleading because the grass was too old. Dr. Schnabel took tender, young shoots of wheat, barley, oats, rye, ground them to a meal tasting like malted milk powder, found its food value two to five times greater than spinach, carrots, lettuce or chard, its vitamin content up to 50 times greater. Hens fed on this meal laid twice as many eggs containing fivefold as much Vitamin...
...wealth. He had already written his will giving $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins Hospital and $3,500,000 to found Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. During the following Lent he addressed an imperious letter to twelve leading Baltimore men. In that letter he revealed the tender core of his heart. Wrote he: "The indigent sick of this city and its environs, without regard to sex, age, or color, who may require surgical or medical treatment, and who can be received into the Hospital without peril to the other inmates, and the poor of this city and State...
...could the Canadian legislative mind be so cold as to believe any citizen of the United States capable of even harboring a thought which involved snatching tender offspring from the breasts of fond parents? After all, are we not all brothers under the skin? Are we not all sharers of the common heritage of humanity, family devotion? Let us be broad minded about this thing. Let us look at the situation through the eyes of the loving mother. Picture the affection lavished in the quiet of the home with no one there but mother, father, Dr. Dafee, three nurses...