Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro literature and folklore? Translator Margery Bianco gives to us in The African Saga, from L'Anthologie Negre of Blaise Cendrars, roving student and compiler, a comprehensive reply to this question. Legends, stories, fables from the myriad families and tongues of Africa have been gathered together and afford ample evidence that the Negro has long enjoyed a charming culture of sorts...
Foreign Relations. We are friendly once more with Mexico. We have straightened out Nicaragua. China, "that unhappy country," will be a problem indefinitely. We can afford to be patient, generous, liberal. "Proposals for promoting the peace of the world will have careful consideration. But we are not a people who are always seeking for a sign. . . . The heart of the Nation is more important than treaties...
...twenty-year period seemed long enough to afford a fair comparison of the more recent dual athletic successes of the two universities, but as a matter of record the total losses and victories for all time in the several major sports have also been given...
While this proposal will not be put into effect in the English department this year, Professor Tatlock declared that the students would gain more from their reading if access to tutorial conferences was made possible. The cessation of tutorial work just prior to the reading period would afford both tutors and students a rest in preparation for the final study before mid-year examinations, as well as give the student additional time for study in the last section meetings of his course, Professor Tatlock believes...
...latter half of the book may be found some small poems which might appeal to those who can not afford to lose strength in an exhausting reading of the title poem. "Wings" has a lighter, almost fluttering rhythm. Probably the best in the book is the short but extremely powerful poem "Extinct...