Word: offering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faces them at the outset with grim threats to their independence. Getting right down to cases, Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko asked Swedish Foreign Minister Rickard J. Sandier, Danish Foreign Minister Peter Munch and Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht what concrete assistance, if any, their countries were prepared to offer Finland in resisting the demands of Soviet Russia...
...Holcombe's scheme helps Government while hurting other departments, by diverting funds from them. Moreover, if given the two posts he would probably select men of his own age group, "stars" who have already earned academic fame. These he could lure from other universities by the offer of a Harvard professorship...
...Green have a couple of good average quarterbacks in Don Norton and Sandy Courter, and fullback Ray Hall is a capable man. But he doesn't come anywhere near filling Colby Howe's shoes. Little Ted Arico is the nearest thing to a climax runner that the Indians can offer, but he is too light for much service. But Hayden is a competent back, and Harvard has good reason to remember his running mate, Bill Hutchinson. Bob Krieger is slated to start at end, but Coach Blaik may be compelied to shift him into the backfield. In this event...
...Japanese Foreign Office has always been a sort of super-club. Its positions offer security, rank, travel, perhaps titles, and most important, a chance to represent the Emperor. When it heard about the proposed Trade Ministry, it rose in its pride and told its new Admiral-Minister, huge, jovial, mild Kichisaburo Nomura, to make the Cabinet behave...
...purpose of the undergraduate faculty system, which was conceived at Harvard and has since spread over the nation, is to help Freshmen and new students with scholastic difficulties and to offer teaching experience to the regular student," the U.C.L.A. Daily Bruin commented in a front-page article...