Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second Act. Nina, not now so normal, has tried to dodge her grief with martyrdom. Believing she must help war cripples to happiness she lives with them. Dr. Ned Darrell, unconsciously in love with her, arranges to have her marry Sam Evans, genial weakling, to afford her anchorage. Not loving Sam she consents, thinking (still the martyr) she can beautify his life and ease her own sorrow with babies...
...individual he receives only routine attention; as a class he receives all sorts of gratuitous comment, mostly unfavorable. Individually he only wears clothes, but collectively he sets fashions, or at least such is the opinion of the Illinois Retail Clothiers and Furnishers Association, an organization which can justly afford to be interested in the "college man" inasmuch as it proposes to do something about it. It is prophesied that next spring this problematical personage will array himself in a light gray suit. His hat will be gray: his shoes black. His shirt will be white; his collar soft...
...While a fortune estimated at $50,000,000 was being devoted to the "betterment of mankind" the usual Christmas bonuses to workers on "the greatest paper on earth" failed to materialize; the owner being unable to "afford it this year...
...remembered that when the old Lawrence Scientific School was remodeled it was organized as a Graduate School, but an inconsistency appeared between this and the provision in the will of Gordon McKay to the effect that students should be admitted who had only the education that the common schools afford. After the decision of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth had disallowed the combination with the Massachusetts institute of Technology, the School of Engineering was again reorganized, this time for both undergraduate and graduate work, and it is perhaps in the latter that the School can render its most valuable...
...expected, and, artistically speaking, the loss of these and other frame houses in the neighborhood of the Freshman dormitories is scarcely to be regretted. In design, the new gymnasium proves once more the adaptibility of Colonial architecture. Though highly utilitarian in purpose, the outside of the building will scarcely afford cartoonists the chance for another "See God for a Nickle" drawing...