Word: offering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intricacies of the trade tempt Peter to make extravagant offers. On occasion he'll promise a pair of boots, free, to the visitor who can successfully pare a long bootlace from a patch of leather, or drive ten wooden pages into a boot sale without a miss. The latter offer was taken up by a Harvard skier who failed on his first try. The boot hungry student bought a wooden block, some pegs, and a mallet and practiced for a week. His return bout resulted in a near miss and a sigh relief from the Limmer family...
...Force's Lieut. General Larry Norstad as one of the original authors of unification. When integration came, Forrest Sherman was bundled out of Washington to become commander of the Sixth Task Fleet in the Mediterranean. This week Secretary Matthews smuggled him home on a civilian airline to offer him Denfeld...
...Although "the college has even been maintained and operated exclusively for students of the white race," it would not accept the endowment, said its trustees, if it had to teach the superiority of Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races or bar Jewish students. After that the judge withdrew his offer. Jefferson seemed back where he found it. "The school is operating at a loss," said one of the trustees. "We plan to close ... at the end of the year, under present conditions...
...Their Ears. Hearstling (New York Journal-American) James Horan (Out in the Boondocks, U.S.S. Seawolf) snapped up the offer. Desperate Men is the result of his year-long sifting of the Pinkerton files. On the strength of this new evidence, Author Horan makes a new appraisal: "[Jesse James] was a completely pitiless killer." His opinion of some of the other Old West badmen who turn up in the files is not much better...
...clubs actually have much to offer materially. In a college located in a small town, they supply almost 100 percent of the student's social activities. Meals run at about $1650 to $1750 a week, are served by waitresses on linen table cloths, and are tastier than those served in many restaurants. Inter-club sports are amazingly organized, with the annual trophy one of the most highly respected honors for a club to possess. Inter-club dances also afford entertainment in a town that boasts not one nightclub. Over-night accommodations for visiting girls are also arranged in the clubhouse...