Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan for America" and "The Responsibility of Bankers" by James Truslow Adams. The "Actualities of Agricultural Planning," by Franklin D. Roosevelt, sets forth an enlightened reforestation program coupled with the creation of rural-industrial communities, which would not only bring the worker out of the crowded cities, but also afford a ready market to the farmer. Among the other writers included by the editor are Andre Maurois, Philip LaFollette, and Nicholas Murray Butler...
...Lima, Peru, Mardi Gras revellers, unable to afford confetti, threw maize, rice, water, flour, soot...
Topics such as the relations between lawyers and their clients, ethical relations with other lawyers, and with course of public justice, will be considered in the lecture, which is to be followed by an informal discussion. The object of the series is to afford a medium for vocational guidance, and to apply a rigorous code of ethics to business and the professions...
...Every-where Hitler's power was rising. Nearly three-fourths of Heidelberg's students were Nazis. Germans, facing ruin, were almost unanimous in demanding Reparations cancellation at any cost. The U. S., Correspondent Knickerbocker found, has too great a stake in the Reich to be able to afford isolation. Interviews with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis' Presidential candidate, General Franz von Epp, brought forth an ultimatum to the U. S.: If France prepares to invade Germany, the U. S. will be expected to stop her; otherwise Germany will pay no private debts. Knickerbocker conclusions...
...hoped that other Houses will follow the example which Lowell has set. The fact that Dunster is planning a similar exhibit indicates the popularity of the plan. A few good works, selected with discrimination, will afford as much pleasure and profit to the average student as will a whole museum...