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Word: afford (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President. Could this, they asked, possibly mean that Mr. Coolidge had decided to snub the Nebraska Senators? Already four nominal Republican Senators (LaFollette, Brookhart, Ladd, Frazier) have been ejected from the party. The Democrats are almost certain to gain ground in the 1926 elections. Could the President possibly afford to cast off even the partial support of the Nebraska Senators? The President did not state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Could It Be? | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

America has great need of well-educated men. As competition stiffens the ordinary college preparation is becoming insufficient. All of the professions are now demanding special training. Knowledge can no longer afford to be broad without profundity...

Author: By Dana BENNETT Durand, | Title: PRIZE ESSAYIST ADVOCATES NEW SYSTEM FOR HARVARD STUDENTS OF DISTINCTION | 4/28/1925 | See Source »

...actor whose face is so soft you expect it to melt any moment, is the chaplain who tore off his white collar and went to war. Later-to Africa in the wool business-injured-back to London. On convenient pretext, the girl is introduced at every episode. One can afford to be distant both to her and to her story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 27, 1925 | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...baseball team will play with Williston Academy this afternoon its final game before it leaves for its Connecticut trip on Wednesday. Williston is a newcomer to the Freshman schedule and little is known of the combination which will afford the Freshmen their first test on the home diamond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Nine Meets Williston | 4/18/1925 | See Source »

...last games should afford the greatest opposition which the team will meet on the trip. Georgetown, which it will face on Friday, administered an 8 to 4 trouncing last year and already has victories over Yale and Boston College to its credit. The final game is with Columbia on Saturday, as it was last year when the New York nine shut out the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX CRIMSON TEAMS GO ON ROAD DURING WEEK OF VACATION | 4/18/1925 | See Source »

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