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Word: afforded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there might have been trouble, regardless of lack of unions, had wages gone down. The same was true of the other industries which faced cuts last week, and which have been cut before. Copper miners have unions but they are not strong and they realize the copper companies could afford to shut down in the event of a strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Deflated | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

There is no doubting that lately the roles assayed by Ruth Chatterton have been too much of a piece to afford a full display of her prowess, and it is too bad that at a time when she sadly needs cooperation she should be made the victim of a tenth-rate story. "The Magnificent Lie" tells of a shell-shocked soldier, who loses his sight years after the war, and believes that the actress he loved overseas has come to visit him. She hasn't, of course, and Miss Chatterton, as a singer in a low resort, undertakes to help...

Author: By B. Oc., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/2/1931 | See Source »

...used both in morning and afternoon work and in addition morning hours as well as the customary afternoon hours will be held in Gannett House. It was explained that the purpose of the Legal Aid Bureau is to offer gratuitous legal advice and service to those who can not afford to retain counsel. While the individual members of the bureau are not barristers the society is given the legal right of attorney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGAL AID SOCIETY'S OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR | 10/2/1931 | See Source »

...dance is the nucleus around which the social life is built. Not to know how to dance means exclusion from one essential and valuable phase of a college course--the social life. New students may well afford to know how to dance, if they do not already, for while studies should be the primary concern they are not everything. --Grinnell Scarlet and Black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On With the Dance | 9/26/1931 | See Source »

Like many another institution, the North Country Community Hospital at Glen Cove thought it could not afford a Drinker Respirator.* Mrs. Davison gave a lesson in how to get one. She solicited her neighbors, quickly collected the $2,000 a Drinker Respirator costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Respirator Gift | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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