Word: offering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need for improved graduate housing and eating facilities is generally agreed upon, and Dean Landis' Plan seems to offer the germ of the solution. If adoption of the proposal and the suggested method of financing it prove feasible after investigation, the graduate students will be promoted from their present orphan status to their rightful place around the University hearth...
Both schools were offered a flat guarantee of $35,000 cash to meet in the Cotton Bowl New Year's Day. The offer was the largest over made a football team for a single game...
...roaring like any sucking dove, nominated Utility Tycoon Wendell Willkie as a good 1940 G. O. P. possibility. Said Mr." Willkie wryly: "If the Government continues to take over my business, I may be looking for some kind of a new job. General Johnson's is the best offer I have...
...Dexter Merriam Keezer became president of little Reed College (Portland, Ore.) five years ago, he ventured a purely academic joke: that Reed might hire a good football team and special professors to keep the players eligible. Early next morning players, coaches and professors began to arrive in droves to offer their services. Dazed President Keezer sent them away, decided not to trifle again with so serious a subject. Last week football came back to plague Mr. Keezer again...
...mining companies have done much to improve silicosis precautions. But "wetting down," particularly in smaller mines, is not enforced, and gas masks are too uncomfortable for daily use. In 1927 a "model" silicosis clinic was established at Picher, Okla., but clinic doctors could merely make diagnoses and statistical surveys, offer no treatment for the 5,366 silicosis victims examined...