Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...choices are made to satisfy a variety of tastes. We offer you several articles which can stand not only on their own merits, but which will also indicate that you've devoted considerable time and effort to their selection. This miniature shaving kit is one of the newest things on the market. It has compartments for four separate items, a brush a razor, after shaving lotion, shaving soap, and a space to hold blades. The whole thing measures four inches across. It's a great gimmick for people who make overnight trips. Complete, it comes...
...wrong room, to classes that weren't meeting that day and finally to courses that were having guest lecturers. Edmonds was told a certain professor was in Washington, only to see him an hour later on the steps of Sever. "It is much easier," Edmonds concludes, "if you offer to lecture in place of the professor, since he is then certain to be there...
...Russian Desk's endless reading of Soviet publications often seems a waste of time. Newspapers like Izvestia, the official government daily, and Pravda, the Communist Central Committee's daily, offer more propaganda than enlightenment Economic publications like Planned Economy, monthlies like Soviet State and Law, periodicals like Culture and Life and the Literary Gazette are more likely to run a Stalin homily than information useful to foreigners. But patience is usually rewarded. Vishniak, for instance, noted one day that Pravda had expanded from four pages to six. The extra two pages, he soon found out, were devoted...
...bring this finding to the attention of radio broadcasters, he thoughtfully sent a copy of his paper to CBS. Paul Kesten, then CBS vice president in charge of advertising and sales promotion, pounced on Stanton's report as "good red meat for my meat grinder," wired him an offer of a research job at $50 a week...
...Tower Beyond Tragedy (by Robinson Jeffers) is the first of ten productions that the American National Theater and Academy plans to offer on Broadway this season. What is mostly the matter with the first of their plays is that it seldom seems like a play at all. It is merely an undynamic stage treatment of Jeffers' well-known dramatic poem on the House of Atreus. Though it chronicles the matricide of Clytemnestra, the murders of Agamemnon, Aegisthus and Cassandra, and more than dabbles in adultery and incest, it is too choked by imagery ever to ignite, is too highbustedly...