Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Detroit Aero Society sponsored the organization conference. It tried to get representatives from the three dozen U. S. universities that countenance flying. Men from only 15 schools could afford to attend. They listened to, among others, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics Edward Pearson Warner, Associate Editor Myron Weiss of TIME, President Grover C. Loening of Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. Assistant Secretary Warner promised the Intercollegiate Aeronautical Association the co-operation of the National Aeronautic Association. Associate Editor Weiss described TIME'S flying school* and suggested that some light plane manufacturers would gladly give planes...
...have all booked their halls and arranged their radio broadcasts on the basis of May 30 as Election Day, the indomitable Scotch divines could not well have devised a more cunning means of embarrassing God-fearing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), who set the election date, yet can ill afford to lose the vote of a Single Scottish Conservative...
...brief, "All the King's Men" is a play, excellently presented, which while it does not make its audience reach for the handkerchief to wipe away tears either of sympathy or of laughter, nevertheless supplies just enough of both comedy and charm to keep each fresh, and afford at the same time a very pleasant evening's entertainment...
Addressing a rally of 20,000 Conservatives in Leicester, the man with the umbrella observed, "As Lloyd George himself says, his scheme is as sound as the Welsh mountains. They are celebrated for their scenery. They probably afford pasturage for a few goats. ... To put his scheme into effect would require a Dictator. . . . A Dictator might do it. But we are not going to work under a Dictator...
...this end, members have volunteered for tutoring during the remainder of the year, some for the Reading Period and others for the final examination period. All men who require aid and who cannot afford professional service are requested to apply as soon as possible at Matthews...