Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better books. It is hardly our place to sneer if the Englishman feels at eighteen that he will now learn more about his country by going a long distance away to look at it. He already knows it directly better than we know ours, and he can afford to try another angle. He goes to Greece and Rome...
...care to eat? Rooms cost enough already. The depression is an acknowledged situation. Is there not some way by which attendance at the dining hall can be made a matter of choice? Forty weeks at $1.60 means a loss of $64, an amount which some of us can ill afford to lose...
...Boston Evening Transcript published early in November a survey of New England colleges and universities which showed that the number of students is approximately the same as last year. A wide survey previously given out by the Associated Press told the same story. Such figures do not afford a precise index of the situation, in view of the fact that in many institutions' there is now a fixed limitation of numbers and a selective method of admission. An accurate statement would give the numbers of applicants for admission as well as the numbers in attendance. It might also be objected...
...week the 8th Hirosaki Division was assembling under orders from the Emperor for duty in Manchuria. In hundreds of well-to-do Japanese homes parents hung long silken kakemono (scroll paintings) of wild ducks in the tokonoma* as tokens to bring their sons safely home again. Those who could afford it hung duck paintings by the man whom conservative Japanese regard as the greatest living wild fowl painter: Tetsuzan Hori, head of the Tokyo and Kyoto Fine Art Schools, one of the last exponents of the ancient Shijo school of naturalistic painters...
...water craft were used by Dr. Rice and his men, from steamboat to dugout, until finally the expedition was forced to walk the last part of the way Besides many wild animal studies, a series of pictures of the natives along the Amazon were made, while aerial photographs afford a complete and careful survey of the whole Amazon River valley...