Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would seem that you could well afford to give plenty of space to writing up the rise in the wrestling game of this most worthy young man with whom I am proud to be acquainted. I am only one of a great many who would consider him to be one of the cleanest-cut athletes and also most affable gentlemen who ever entered the sporting world in any of its branches. "Doc" HEWETT...
...Then. . . .Joe. I toldya never mind that guy. Ignore him. What's a dirty look? Don't soil your hands on him. . . .So I let him wait a little that guy'll be going pretty soon now and then I gave him the old line about I couldn't afford it. And that's right. I can't, and keep the bus too. Sure I have. Oh, I sold the Ford to Louie before Christmas. And the old man asks me if I want to live at college next year or get another...
...obligation resting on the shoulders of the members of the party. . . . The party should be responsible to the rank and file, and the whole system of calling upon a few rich men to make up a party deficit is wrong. . . . There must be a great many people who can afford $100 . . . $50 . . . $10 ... $5. I am quite willing to bear my full share. Countless letters come to me . . . which contain requests for printed copies of the speeches made by me during the last campaign. I have decided I would forego any profit from such a book. The Democratic National Committee...
...Throughout the evening the other colleges, Stoughton and Massachusetts were in utmost danger. They caught fire numerous times, and could not have been saved by all the help that the town could afford, had it not been for the assistance of the Gentlemen of the General Court. His Excellency the Governor, who is spite of the rigor of the weather was most active in exerting himself in supplying the town engines with water which had to be fetched from a distance, the two college pumps being then rendered useless...
...Faculty of the University. As Chairman of the English department, professor, and author, with a distinguished career behind him and a bright future ahead, he has served Harvard faithfully and well for four years. The Faculty of the University in general, the English Department in particular, can ill afford the departure of so eminent a scholar and educator. While deploring Harvard's unfortunate loss, the University of California must be congratulated on having acquired Professor Tatlock. His absence will be felt here, but being unavoidable it can only be hoped that he will help bridge the gap which...