Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calendar, unique among New England colleges in that it sets aside the whole month of January for reading period and exams, gives students an un-equalled chance to spend a few days skiing in the Northern Hills at the best possible time--the middle of the week. Weekdays afford the student the lowest possible prices at the best inns and beautiful trails that are not nearly so crowded as on weekends...
Bender had remarked last year that "more scholarships were handed out than we could afford." The number of applicants for scholarships increased from 1,350 to 1,774 since last year, said Bender, and the Financial Aid Center's tendency was "to go a little farther because the quality of the applicants was so high...
...seems to me to be fairly self-evident that so long as American strategy, and the military forces arrayed in support of that strategy, continue to rest upon existing assumptions, this nation cannot afford to meet the annual defense bills without something important giving way in the American scheme of things...
...this very fact which causes our Communist enemies to be able to present us in a bad light before the Oriental and Asiatic peoples. They can say . . . that our claims to Christian brotherhood and democracy are hypocritically untrue. Christianity cannot well afford to be on the wrong side of a moral force...
...publication "until further notice." (She then left on a trip to Paris.) The Trib suspended because the Times made it clear that if the Trib continued to publish, the Times might settle independently with the union, thus probably forcing the others to settle also. Since the Trib could ill afford a settlement at the engravers' terms, it gave in. Thus the Trib took the biggest loss of all from the strike, since it kept on its full 2,000-man staff at regular pay. The staffers spent their time putting out a complete newspaper, including...