Word: offers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have evened up their record for the season with the victories balancing the defeats at five of each. The last and hardest conflict of the season will be played when the team will take on the Yale ten here next Saturday. The Bulldogs have a strong aggregation to offer this year, having only dropped two of their past conquests...
...order to prevent further bloodshed and outrage in this war of the German aggression, I am authorized by competent Americans to offer a reward of $1,000,000 to be paid in cash to the person or persons who will deliver Adolf Hitler, alive, unwounded and unhurt, into the custody of the League of Nations, for trial before a high court of justice for his crimes against the peace and dignity of the world. This proposal will stand good through the month...
...Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. The Times in its news columns further quoted 82-year-old Dr. Church to the effect that 1) he was not joking; 2) his plan had been seriously proed-&-conned for three months in Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club (coal, steel millionaires); 3) the offer had the backing of 50 citizens who could and would put up the cash; 4) he thinks his plan can work; 5) his backers doubt it; 6) "I felt that there was some power in the idea, especially so because it is not in any sense an offer of reward...
...Duquesne Clubman Ernest T. Weir said he had nothing to do with the Church offer. Embarrassed Dr. Church said the Times wrongly hooked the Duquesne Club into his plan, had a note posted on the Duquesne bulletin board: "I want to extend my apologies to every member...
...British Museum and returned, a decrepit old man, to breathe his defiant, dying breath on the same forbidden glass, John Seed did not give up his high resolve. Last fortnight he returned to college, strapped in a plaster cast from waist to shoulders. He spurned the university's offer to end the contest by giving him a clapper...