Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function of the Legal Aid Society, as its name implies, is to provide clients unable to afford the services of lawyers with unpaid support. The members of the society are recognized by the courts and may plead their cases as though admitted...
...suite Thomas Garden Apartment that I have financed cheaply in lower Bronx, New York City. The goods belonged to bricklayers, electricians, policemen, streetcar men, firemen, bookkeepers, teachers, librarians and like members of the thrifty and shifted classes, for I have provided rooms at rents they can afford. Each tenant pays down $1,000 to $1,700 cash, and thereafter $64 to $100 monthly. Eventually he will own his apartment outright. All this I have made possible by financing the construction at exceedingly low interest rates...
Archbishop Ruiz y Flores of Michoacan, Mexico, gave consolation last week to religious Mexicans who, although married according to civil ceremony, dared not be married by Roman Catholic rite. President Calles, enforcing his Mexican Constitution has forbidden this; and all Mexican girls could not afford to quit the country as did President Calles' own daughter (TIME...
Morrill at goal, provides the 1928 sextet with splendid protection in that department, while the return of Tudor, Chase and Stanley will afford a good forward line...
...Haven. Prophesies like that are notoriously easy to make and do not count for much in themselves. What is far more important at present than the relative merits of the two proposals, upon which no judgment can fairly be pronounced so early, is the incidental publicity which they will afford to collegiate debating. Space, headlines, discussion, all these are blessings which will give no negligible impetus to a languishing...