Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many freshmen explained that their indifference was due to lack of finances. "The Jubilee is coming up," one said, "and I just can't afford the additional expense." Previous freshman dances have been successful...
Budding virtuosos should stay away from Harvard: they cannot afford the time. But composers, conductors, teachers and musicologists can't afford to miss what Harvard's Department teaches--and teaches well...
...problem of entertaining women guests has become even more acute with the increasing cost of living at college. Many students, especially those on scholarship, are simply unable to afford the expense of providing outside diversion on an informal date. The House common rooms, even if they were opened in the evening, are more suited to the atmosphere of a cloak room...
Several scholarship students in the course said yesterday that they cannot afford to come to summer school; their final decision to continue in the R.O.T.C. is due by May 1. Summerall is notifying students who will be deferred before this date, in order that they can decide better whether...
Even so, Du Pont could not afford the risk if it did not keep the most rigorous control on where the research dollars go. It spends only 15% to 20% of its research budget on fundamental (i.e., "pure") research which, while unpredictable, is also productive of the biggest strikes (e.g., nylon). It concentrates most heavily on applied research - the further development of processes already known - which have now brought Orion out of the same test tubes where nylon was found. The greatest problem, says Greenewalt, is to be patient enough to carry a seemingly losing proposition for five...