Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulty in paying the grocer," remarks the Yale alumni Weekly. The comment is equally true of Harvard. With one of the finest college libraries in the country. Harvard has no money to operate its ventilating system in the reading room. With gold-encrusted beams in Adams House, it cannot afford to provide rooms enough in Dunster House for tutors. Every moth has seen additions to Harvard's skyline, and every new building has increased the expenses of maintainance without providing a way to meet them...
This only makes the situation worse for the musicians, florists, dressmakers, local merchants and others who might have profited therefrom. And those boys who cannot afford to invite guests are not obligated to do so anyway...
Bane of the doctor is unpaid bills. In Prosperity, doctors say, patients buy luxuries instead of settling their accounts. In Depression they feel they cannot afford to pay. Like the tailor, the doctor can wait. Last week in Marceline, Mo., Dr. Ola Putman thought he had waited long enough. He added up his accounts, found patients owed him $36.000. He considered the Depression, offered to settle for two-thirds, published the offer in the Marceline 'News with a list of 75 of his debtors...
...number of places for earning board, for example, has fallen far below past years. Mr. Westcott has said that last year student waiters did their best work. Why not give these men a chance to continue this work, since obviously more need the positions? If the University can not afford to pay them what they are worth, let it draw upon the charity money, because it must remember these men are investors...
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill can afford to relax his stern face occasionally and smile on life. Equipped with proven genius, he is comparatively a young man. Money rolls in from Strange Interlude, still on the road. The kudos he has received may be only a sample of what is to come. Above all a living writer, he looks steadfastly to the future, scorns any present estimate of his work, explains: "It seems to me that there is too damned much of that sort of thing being done in America...