Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cranking up, minus pontoons, at Karachi, India, the U. S. round-the-world trio took the air for Atlantic shores. Constantinople, Bucharest, Vienna, Strasbourg flashed by beneath them. On the seventh day they landed at Paris. Chagrined at being too poor to afford her own circummundane expedition, France none the less accorded the Americans an effusive reception-squadronal escorts of planes from Strasbourg on, cheering crowds on the Champs Elysées, cordial officials at Le Bourget airdrome...
Said he: "I regard this plan as complimentary to the Dawes reparation plan. The latter is based on the principle that Germany can pay reparations only in so far as the world is willing and able to accept German goods. The world, however, cannot afford to take too great a quantity of these, or else the economic equilibrium of other countries will be disturbed. Hence Germany must be given an economic outlet outside the main commercial markets, if her paying capacity is to be restored...
...Republicans could not afford to backslide in the recognition of women. Accordingly William M. Butler appointed Mrs. Alvin Tobias Hert of Kentucky, widow of the late "Tobe" Hert, former National Committeeman from Kentucky, to the vacant post. To recognize still further the sex, Mrs. J. Willis Martin of Philadelphia was elected Chairman of the Committee on Permanent Organization of the Convention-the Committee which was to select Frank W. Mon'dell for its permanent Chairman...
When it is also realized that there are now over fourteen million foreign born in the United States, the necessity of immediate and drastic restriction in order to preserve the national homogeueity will be obvious. Whatever may be its benevolent humanitarian desire, this country can no longer afford to endanger its own future as a united nation by a blindly generous welcome of all those who present themselves at its gates. The more instinct of self-preservation alone must force a reluctant closing of the doors...
...prime interest will be the second university race in which both Yale and Pennsylvania have entered a shell. The results of this race will afford the coaches some data for comparing the Yale and Harvard second university crews, and incidentally the first crews, both of which meet on June...