Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the substantial addition the Arnold Arboretum makes to the equipment and resources of the University and the indebtedness of every Harvard man to the late Charles Sprague Sargent for the colossal achievement in making the Arboretum the successful natural research institution it is today, the nation itself cannot afford to ignore the tremendous significance of the Arboretum, Artistically and economically its influence might well be said to extend throughout the world. It certainly fills a unique place in American, and while the importance of the study of plant genetics and the hybridization of trees may present only vague...
...approaching, and took for their keynote the familiar word "prosperity", the prosperity that leads people to buy books if it does not make them read. The woman who in Addison's day filled her library with the worthwhile books done in wooden blocks with deceptive backs, can now afford the actual volumes. Whether she finds time or inclination to read them is an important consideration. Mr. Dodd, President of the Association said that she does, that the public is learning to discriminate instead of buying "best sellers because everyone is reading them," and that "the enormous increase of interest...
...undergraduates and the college officers in charge can correct the situation. The great body of Harvard graduates throughout the country is waiting for them to take the first step that will reestablish Harvard in the public esteem to which she is so well entitled, but which no college can afford to neglect. Yours very truly, Theodore S. Kenyon...
...schoolboys will, however, see an earnest Harvard and they will see it under the best possible guides; few visitors have such distinguished hosts as President Lowell, Professor Sachs and Mr. Lane. Certainly the leadership of these men will afford the young Englishmen an introduction not only into the physical. Harvard but to the type of its governors. The CRIMSON takes pleasure in adding its welcome to that officially extended by the University and hopes that the comparisons between the different American institutions visited will not leave Harvard entirely forgotten...
...line, besides, raises a suspicion that the Sandino men are not playing the game. They are, of course, rebels. And rebels, according to all the rules of war, are not supposed to be well armed, well uniformed, or well disciplined. Rebels are supposed to afford fleeting targets for leathernecks when the contest is waged among gentlemen...