Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Michigan state college president said it "worried" him that wealthy young men can afford to go to college and claim deferment while the sons of the less wealthy are forced to enter the armed services...
Dancers from All Over. Ever since he graduated from Harvard (1930), Lincoln Kirstein has been pushing his close-cropped head and broad shoulders into the arts. As the son of the board chairman of Boston's Filene's department store, he could afford to lose money on his ventures, and often did. Among them the expensive, respected but short-lived highbrow magazine Hound & Horn, Harvard's Society for Contemporary Art a novel, a book of poems, a scholarly book on the dance...
While boosting her quantity, Helena Rubinstein still keeps a sharp eye on the quality trade. In her salons, women who can afford to pay $25 for a "Day of Beauty" are stretched, exercised, rubbed, scrubbed, wrapped in hot blankets, bathed in infra-red rays, massaged, fed a lunch of 21 raw vegetables, then given a face treatment, pedicure, manicure, scalp treatment, shampoo and hairdo. But she candidly admits that most women can take care of their complexions with a couple of creams and ten minutes' daily attention. For her own skin she mainly uses a simple lotion, containing nothing...
Three years ago he wanted to lay his case before the Vatican and take of "reaching the Pope one of these days" if only he could afford passage...
Tony dedicated his record-breaking ride and his winning jockey's fee ($50) to Jockey Walter Miller, now confined to a New York sanatarium. The little "apprentice," who becomes a full-fledged jockey this month, can afford such gestures these days. Purses for his winning mounts totaled more than $800,000, and Tony's income came close to $40,000 last year...