Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacking and ridiculing the plan, but despite all journalistic comment, it is now an accomplished fact. True, as a Harvard senior has pointed out in his article in the Hoot, the Houses have their disadvantages. Only time will be able to smooth over the present crudities that now afford subjects for Lampoon cartoons...
...author is conceited, and a few sensational features, such as an insinuation that President Wilson was administered a slow poison by Entente plotters while in Paris, cannot be approved. But the book will afford several entertaining hours, and the reader will perhaps regret that, "with the introduction of mechanical coding machines, cryptography as a science will become a thing of the past...
...established. The Department of Music could greatly increase its instructive efficiency if a sort of loan library of recordings were founded. The more important volumes are expensive and out of the reach of many appreciative students, both in and out of the field of music. Many who can not afford to purchase high-priced recordings would be willing to pay a small deposit or fee for the use of the works. The details of the administration of the enterprise can be worked out by cooperation of library officials and authorities in music. To carry the idea through a period...
...small Chicago courtroom, there has started a legal battle in which, unfortunately, the interest of members of organized society should be centered. Al Capone, millionaire racketeer, has been victorious in his many affairs with state governments. He was able to afford the best verdicts money can buy, and though known to have been concerned in many felonies, until a short time ago he was allowed to go unhindered. Now, for the first time, he faces the Federal government...
...justice to Mr. Bradford let it be said that he refers to his suggestions only as a "clue which . . . may afford a certain amount of help. I mean the clue of biography." Admitting his solution does not offer intellectual discipline, Mr. Bradford says that biography has "the immense advantage of affording a natural link between the otherwise widely scattering and mutually repellent divergences of developing knowledge. . . all that makes the universe, is simply the human being. Now biography is the study of human beings, what they have been, what they are, what they may be . . . what they...