Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish I could see the scoundrel who started it. . I wish people would mind their own affairs and leave mine alone. ... Of course I do not pay the regular rates for a great big hotel apartment. What I do pay is nobody's damned business! I can afford to pay what they charge...
Manager R. L. Pollio of the Mayflower tactfully announced that the Curtis rent was "something around $10,000 a year" and added: "We went after the Vice President and Mrs. Gann with the most attractive proposition we could afford. . . . We are glad to have him here. ... It is an honor and, to be perfectly frank, it is worth a lot of money in advertising...
...more scandalous transactions have ever been carried through by a Minister of the Crown than these settlements with our foreign debtors! ... If Italy and France can afford to pay the United States they can afford...
...informal activities of college are worth anything it is in the development of just those intangible considerations which are of peculiar importance to the medical man. The easy contact afforded by competitions of one sort and another, and the humanising effects of vigorous athletics give opportunities to the pre-medical student which he can ill afford to miss. But the technical requirements of his education, and the rules of laboratory authorities conspire against...
University education, if it is to be more than a training ground for skilled workers, can not afford to dedicate itself to the professions at the expense of the arts and pure sciences. One of the main-stays of man's cultural existence, the ground on which the professions are built, the liberal education will give way to the competitive demands for specialized training only with a serious loss to everyone concerned...