Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shackles about gold currency to be unlocked at the end of the year, but nothing is likely to happen before then. This view is backed by the fact that Germany, Poland, Sweden, Holland have all-to a greater or lesser extent-reverted to gold payments. Britain can hardly afford to drop behind these countries if she is to retain financial supremacy in Europe...
Chairman Cheek of the Committee has urged men to apply today because the applications are complicated and if there should be a mistake in one handed in too late to afford time to correct it, the applicants would be left out of the draw...
...competition for manager--of the Freshman track team will begin today at 1.05 with a meeting at the H.A.A. The competition, which will last about eight weeks, will afford all candidates an opportunity of learning the details concerning the management of track meets and the direction of practices...
Forty million dollars is a goodly sum of money even in these days when the memory of war-time finance still lingers as an arithmetic nightmare. A man who can afford to give such an amount to education naturally attracts the fickle public eye, and for a moment his every opinion commands a wide attention. So with Mr. James Duke. For the student of American life and thought this event is most fortunate...
...Those of the educated Americans who can afford to travel and out of sheer curiosity go to India, should arrange to give some of their time in offering short courses of free lectures in the field of their special interest. These lectures could be easily arranged with the help of Indian schools and colleges...