Word: proffer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown Herald's proffer of support for the resumption of football relations between Harvard and Brown comes, fortunately, not late enough to require projection into a season more distant than 1929. The University's schedule still contains one or two open dates, necessarily in the early autumn; and the possibility of inviting the Providence team to fill one of them still exists...
...authenticity of the individual signatures and as to numbers. We have found that the total exceeds the 445 names reported to the CRIMSON. Tuesday. Our files, however, will be kept open for further inspection by those whose suspicions are still alive. In the meantime we owe and gladly proffer an apology to Mr. Breithut, and assure him that his name will not again appear on our membership files...
...bull-deftly drawn by Fortuna's flirting rain coat away from the crowds and toward a stone wall against which horns scraped as the master leaped clear. Eight times this sport was repeated, on the rough, treacherous street. Then Fortuna's frenzied amigo arrived, panting, to proffer him a sword. "Too bad, my little one," cried Fortuna to the bull. "We should have met fairly in the ring. . . . So! . . . So . . . ," and he withdrew a dripping sword...
Puzzling servant girls; patient schoolboys, chinless sodawater clerks; burly salespersons all want that $1,000. Dirt cheap publications which they read offer them riches. Scarlet billboards proffer fortunes. Solve a puzzle. Win a trip to Europe, or an automobile, or a set of dishes or that...
Pheasant was the illegitimate daughter of Maurice Vaughan, whose proffer of matrimony Meg had refused when she learned about Pheasant. On the return of Eden & Alayne, Pheasant is married to Piers. Soon, in this crowded turmoil of brothers and sisters, men and wives," there are readjustments. Renny and Alayne fall in love with each other, likewise Pheasant and Eden...