Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view at the Germanic Museum is an unusual exhibit illustrating the progress of manuscript illumination in Germany from the 8th to the 16th century. The exhibit, which will continue until March 26, is the more interesting because, due to a much straitened budget, the Museum could not afford to borrow originals, but has instead secured the most authentic reproductions available...
...corrected. House masters must no longer even unconsciously lure Freshmen in under the delusion that they may have the choice of a better and perhaps cheaper room the next year. Students should not be drawn into what is practically a three year contract for rooms they cannot afford to inhabit more than one season. In all fairness the House masters must make the actual situation clear to all applicants for rooms...
...prevents sending through the mails or selling or lending any information or advice or assistance on this subject. This means that although many physicians give private advice to their pattents on this matter, it is impossible for hospitals and clinics to advise their charity paticuts, who cannot afford to go to a private doctor...
Proud of their catch, the Chilean police boasted that it would lead to extermination of Argentina's renowned white slave ring, Zwi Migdal. Argentines were skeptical. The whole thing, they observed, is a matter of profits so huge that Zwi Migdal can well afford to pay bribes big enough to keep the traffic going. Not long ago a Franchucha testified that during her first week 402 men were shown into her room, paid not quite $3 each-or nearly...
...good Catholics and good atheists: not by a man with a religion of his own. Shelley's didactiveness compares unfavorably with Dante's for that reason. Dante assumes that we accept the scheme of the Catholic Church; Shelley tries to convince us of the scheme itself. The poet cannot afford to teach; he is quite at liberty to expound ideas, so long as they aren't his own ideas, for then there is a chance that he will make poetry...