Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report on the House Plan presents in admirable fashion the case for narrowing the range of rents. While the larger aspects of the rent problem are not treated thoroughly, the discussion of this particular phase is able and convincing. It has become very evident that the men who can afford the most expensive rooms will not take them when other men obtain rooms only slightly less desirable for half the price. The most pressing need in the Houses has not been for the very cheap rooms but for more rooms of moderate price...
...preposterously short period of three days. And on the success of the enterprise will often depend the fate of those who find themselves burdened in the middle of the year with an impossible schedule. If the "Freshman Days" must offer a found of pleasant surprise parties, they should afford what is far more important--an opportunity for a spell of concentrated course research...
...McNaught (McNitt) newspaper syndicate, onetime publisher of defunct McNaught's Magazine (like Plain Talk). But Mr. McNitt has been headed toward retirement lately, so last week when Messrs. Astor, Harriman & Moley announced further details about their weekly, observers concluded that if it did nothing else the subsidy would afford employment to a few unoccupied literati...
...humility." A stranger walked into the shop of a Salem, Mass, bootblack, said he was a schoolboy friend, asked for a shine. When he offered to pay the bootblack remarked: "Times are hard and friends are scarce. We'll forget the dime." Said the customer: "Oh, I can afford it all right. I've got steady work with the telephone company." Asked what his job was, he introduced himself as Walter Sherman Gifford, president of A. T. & T. After a mass in Sioux City, Iowa's cathedral, collectors found that a stranger in the congregation...
...Opera House curtain and the gaudy murals done by a forgotten painter named Massman. In 1931 the McFarlane heirs gave the sorry pile to Denver University as a landmark of Colorado's brawling past, past enough for Coloradoans to be proud of. But the University could not afford to repair the vast, draughty stage, prop up the collapsing roof. To the rescue came Denver's able, elderly Art Patron Ann Evans, socialite president of Evans Investment Co., daughter of Colorado's second territorial Governor, John Evans. She soon made Central City a Denver socialite fad. To rebuild...