Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taxpayers subject to the higher rates cannot afford, for example, to invest in American railroads or industries or embark upon new enterprises in the face of taxes that wiill take 50% or more of any return, that may be realized. These taxpayers are withdrawing their capital from productive business and investing it instead in tax-exempt securities...
...born into an agreeably futile and wholly poverty-stricken family; education brushes him lightly by; diphtheria and a consequent period of paralysis afford him early opportunity for cheerful submission; he becomes identified with an advertising firm, then another, in which his native ingenuity and artistic talent bring him reasonable success. An abortive love affair with a co-worker is ended abruptly by the lady's untimely suicide; he finally marries a childhood sweetheart, against his mother's passionate protest, and finds in her a voracious wife who does her best to swallow his soul and finally runs away...
...great many college men feel that they want a "liberal education", but there are probably few of them who pause to think that they are indulging in an economic luxury which they may not always be able to afford. Mr. Gerald Crittenden, an able advocate of the worth of the liberal college, states this most emphatically in an article which he contributes to the November number of Scribner's. According to him the liberal college will speak to its prospective students in some such terms as this: "What we teach you here will not assure you of a job when...
...French universities afford opportunities to American students in every field of study and research. The list of studies includes everything from agriculture and architecture to zoology, not omitting English language and literature...
...discover that there are a number of artists as well known in this tiny, individual field as Valentino and Talmadge are to cinema fans. Perhaps you are able to afford one of the Valentines of the bookplate world - perhaps Cousin Letty offers to do it for a Christmas present. At any rate, sooner or later you have your bookplates and spend long, gummy evenings putting them in the books...