Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relearn the habit of eating five courses instead of three. Complained one waiter: "They have forgotten how to eat." Another reason for Britons' timidity: in spite of their delight that the control is gone and with it the house charge, surtax and other added fees, they cannot afford many of the goodies...
...members, the Conference of American Small Business Organizations said: "There exists grave danger to our economy [in] the rapidly increasing Government loans and guarantees. These funds could better be used to help balance our budget and reduce our Government debt. Revision of tax laws can afford better benefits to all small business than credit relief or subsidies...
...Harvard continues to believe in training men who will be sensitive, disciplined, and articulate, it would seem that the University cannot afford to neglect active, direct esthetic experience as a principal source for precisely such training. "Manual work" in liberal education makes as much sense as it does to those anxious to rescue culture from the talkers. The responsibility for encouraging student work in creative art and providing facilities should be accepted by the administration as part of an expanded program of general art education...
...these methods," President Jordan said, "and a possible slight increase in lunchroom charges, we hope to bring the accounts into balance." Because of the lunchroom's importance, the College can afford to sustain a small loss, Jordan explained, but must still avoid a large...
When Palomilla had crept offstage, Professor Wiener pointed out that "this is a simple animal," and described some of Palomilla's more modern deseendents. Then he leaned over at the audience and said the time was gone when we could afford to make machines for the sake of making machines, that to avoid a society of "R. U. R." we would have to start worrying about the moral value of the machines, deciding whether they were good or bad. "The engineer must become more and more a poet," said Professor Wiener, and Palomilla buzzed once more, quietly, behind its curtain...