Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murmur of "I told you so," went up. Boris was looking for an English girl of aristocratic parentage, of which there were scores eligible. But those who knew smiled, recalled the young King's sentiments not long ago expressed: "Bulgaria cannot afford a Queen. I sometimes wonder if she can afford a King...
Maps mean very little if anything in relation to getting where one wants to so, because inevitably one finds oneself back where one started, in exactly the same spot only several hours later. The best, course of action, therefore is if one can afford it, a taxi, thus enabling a person to see many quaint spots of the city and to experiment in the naive taxi rates in Boston, a system which has its basis on the theories that every movement of the meter has a meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars...
...first time in its history the Business board open to the Junior as well as the Sophomore and Freshmen classes. All 1929, 1930 and 1931 men are eligible to compete for election to the Business department. Tuesday night will afford the Class of 1931 its first and last opportunity during the first semester to try for a place on the CRIMSON staff...
...association with him. . . ." To onetime Governor of Missouri Stephens, ex- President Wilson had written in 1922, when Senator Reed became a candidate for re-election to the U. S. Senate: "I shall hope and confidently expect to see him repudiated by the Democrats at the primaries. Certainly Missouri cannot afford to be represented by such a marplot."- Now in Kansas, once a strong Wilson state, U. S. Senator Reed praised Woodrow Wilson, implied his association with the onetime President in the passage of a popular law. Newsgatherers smiled as they wired the material out of which editors could snip sharp...
...century mark. Be it remembered that Mr. Oppenheim long since departed the ranks of writers who must sell books to live. He is now a bunchy, contented, wealthy man of 61 and only writes to live happily. He would be unhappy if made to stop writing, and he can afford to write in any manner he chooses. But he is grateful to the vast public that made him so independent. Observe the manner in which he has aimed to please extra specially with Novel...