Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final analysis, there must be some resolution between the medical groups' fear that the profession will be over populated and the government's fear that not enough of the right caliber student can afford modern medical education. Both are justifiable fears; the medical profession was dangerously overcrowded in 1906 before the accrediting of medical schools, while the administration knows that fewer and fewer students will be able to pay 600-800 dollars yearly to become doctors. H.R. 5940 is the first legislative attempt to resolve this problem
...cannot speak for the players, but in every dealing with the press Art has shown himself a rare bird indeed among the men who make their living from athletics. This has nothing to do with being willing to talk to newsmen, either professional or amateur. No coach nowadays can afford to cut himself off from the press, and the fact that Valpey realized this is in itself nothing extraordinary...
Bill Booth, like quite a few farmers these days, could afford $2,300 for a little family trip. At 61, he has the slow, big-knuckled hands and weather-beaten face of a man who has done tough, physical work all his life. "When I got back from my wedding trip to Niagara Falls in 1911," recalls Booth, "I was busted." His father gave him $1,000 and his blessing, and Booth was on his own. Fifteen years ago his wife inherited some land and the house. Now he has 600 acres of rich Indiana farm land outside Rushville...
...ankle hurt and he had a bad second-row starting position. At the first turn, Fred Wilt lagged along in last place. The announcer gave the time for the quarter: 60.3. That was just about what Wilt had counted on. He couldn't afford a slow pace. Because he lacked the kind of speed that allows a man to burst into a blazing "big kick" finish, Wilt held to the strategy of keeping the field stepping along so that no one else could save up for a big kick. He let out a notch, moved into second place...
With 350 upperclassmen designated for residence in the Apley Claverly Dudley chain and in the Yard this spring, the deconversion of 96 House rooms seems untimely. Their occupants will live in spaciousness which some cannot afford and which most find inappropriate...