Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elizabeth, N.J. His father, Peter J. Mitchell, was editor of a funeral directors' trade journal. His mother, Anna Driscoll Mitchell, now 74, is still living in Elizabeth. Cinemactor Thomas (High Noon) Mitchell is his uncle. Graduated from Elizabeth's Battin High School in 1917, could not afford to go to college, got a job in a grocery store...
...therefore propose that Cambridge and the University permit overnight parking on all streets used for parking during the daytime so that the students who cannot afford to keep their car in a garage will have the opportunity to take their chances on finding a space at night in a spot which will not hamper the fire department in its operations. An enforcement of meter laws during the daytime will eliminate the possibility of business firms suffering from space "hogging." John W. Stephens...
...Allen could well afford to spare the editorial blue pencil since most graduates tended to emphasize the similarities between Harvard and Old Nassau...
...with a deep sense of shame . . . Every group, it appears, is a special interest group . . . People's attitude seems to be ... that we can have prosperity and security without paying for them. I hope there are a few citizens who thank their lucky stars that they can afford to pay taxes to defend their land, afford to pay for all the luxuries Americans enjoy . . . who deem it a privilege to help the world remain free, so that we may remain free ourselves. We are admittedly a warm-hearted people when disaster strikes. Must we be awakened by a cataclysm...
Like most poets, Welshman Dylan Thomas can't afford to think of poetry as a living. To eke out his own, he does what he can in other writing fields. And he is certainly among the few living poets, not to mention scenario writers, who could successfully have written The Doctor and the Devils, the screenplay for a new British film.* Published as a book, his script combines some of the best virtues of fiction and drama. What is just as important, Poet Thomas remains a poet while doing a job that most highbrow poets would pooh-pooh, unless...