Word: proffered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what does Harvard proffer one who for more than a quarter of a century has gladly learned, and gladly taught? It is my belief that Harvard hoards on its campus essential tangible and intangible values that renew and sustain one's faith in an institution of higher learning. A long period of learning and teaching has carried me to a multitude of college campuses. Some of them have been, and are, top ranking universities and colleges; but, reflecting upon the lot, I would pronounce Harvard the noblest campus of them...
...lobby of Club 21, the conclave gathered to proffer to Miss Joanne Woodward the award of Hasty Pudding Club Woman-of-the-Year. As she read a scroll citing her "great acting skill and feminine qualities," Miss Woodward murmured that she loved and appreciated "what...
...this occasion I propose (1) to summarize the post-War theatrical activity of the Harvard community, and call attention to a number of particular features; (2) to proffer comments on the raison d'etre of theatre in the University; (3) to recount the steps that led to the decision to build a Theatre; and (4) to discuss some of the questions raised and answered by the presence of a physical plant for drama...
...Russians did not even wait for the NATO chiefs to get back home. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko briskly dismissed the NATO chiefs' proffer of a new foreign ministers' conference on disarmament. "We are in fact invited to sit again at a conference table with the same NATO members with whom we have patiently negotiated until now," he told the Supreme Soviet, "and to launch again into sterile negotiations which do not advance the cause of disarmament one whit." In almost the same breath and on almost the same grounds, he scuttled any idea of renewed Russian participation...
...your Jan. 28 issue, I read of the alarming plight of the not-so-great state of North Dakota and the possibility of a new name for it. I proffer as a solution: a merger of North and South Dakota, neither of which is overly productive, thereby leaving a vacancy in our Union to be filled by the productive, ever-growing territory of Alaska. JOHN J. JAVORONOK Gladwyne...