Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last night, the weather was cold and dry at Yale, but the campus itself was very much warm and wet as large crowds lined the fraternity bars off York Street. Although Yale's President had asked that the state liquor laws be observed, it seemed that anyone who could afford thirty-five cents for a beer, was served, regardless...
...professor took a long, self-righteous swallow of wine as the students counted their pfennigs to see if they could afford another. The obese waitress--spellbound by Glaubich's erudition--beamed at him as she had at the young Wehrmacht and SS officers who were her wartime clientele. Glaubich shyly smiled back, lit another Gold Dollar cigarette, and bent over the table toward his disciples...
...buys the potatoes for the University's thousands can afford to order in hundreds of pounds. The man is William A. Heaman, supervisor of the Dining Hall Department, and his hundred-pound orders go out weekly from his office at 399 Harvard Street. Heaman buys his potatoes through a yearly contract with the F. J. Ward Company, but for all other commodities on the University menus, weekly contracts are let to wholesalers...
Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the department, expressed the hope that fewer courses will have to be omitted in the future because of faculty sabbaticals. He cautioned, however, that the department still does not know how many visiting lecturers it can afford for next year...
...Overseers explain that they were led to their decision to recommend expansion largely by their "sense that the problem of educating large numbers of our young people is so enormous and so important to our country that no college for whatever reason can afford to stand aside." "For whatever reason" is in itself a rather bald statement. If such attention to the problem were to mean lowering Harvard's educational standards, the Overseers are wrong. Aside from this objection, however, the Overseers' reason leads to their recommendation for expansion only with the intervening unstated premise that the only...