Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ORIGIN OF THE NEXT WAR -John Bakeless - Viking ($2.50). Not more than a handful of excessively well-posted people can afford to miss this book. Since it contains not a word of "war scare" claptrap, there is room upon its vivid pages for enough striking fact and comment to burst the covers off an average volume of like heft. Yet Mr. Bakeless' thesis is expressible in a few lines, which he modestly quotes from General Tasker H. Bliss...
...felt need of the alumni body, in that it enables all to contribute something towards a debt which most of us feel we owe the University. Heretofore, many who would have liked to contribute have been deterred by embarrassment, on account of the smallness of the amount they could afford to give...
...much good any of these meetings does is doubtful, if one expects that a renascence of religious fervor is to spring forth from the hearts of those who wend their way to Northfield or to Lake George or any other of the collegiate Chautauquas. Of course they do afford pleasant rendezvous with other brightened and enlightened who can spend holiday hours hearing inferior lectures which they would cut were they given at college. So perhaps they are quite necessary. At least they do keep the Billy Sunday tradition vital in the college world and give many a young wall flower...
Representative Vare, who comes from the City of Brotherly Love, where politicians cannot afford to be brothers, has decisively defeated George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot for the Republican nomination for Senator from Pennsylvania. Mr. Pepper was commonly considered to be the Coolidge candidate, being backed heavily by the Mellon interests, and Mr. Pinchot in the gubernatorial chair in Harrisburg had enjoyed four years of unbroken popularity, especially with the miners of the western part of the state. The Democratic nominee is still to be considered, even in Pennsylvania, but Senator Pepper and Governor Pinchot seem headed for the sticks...
...first administrative year of the Harvard Fund Council will end on June 30, 1926. What the Fund wants before then is a large increase of contributors; of men who realize that $5 or $10 contributions now. if that is all they can easily afford, will bring the total just that much nearer to a satisfactory figure. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...