Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington police department was asked to explain why it did not give foreign embassies and legations better protection. Its chief insisted they got the best attention the force could afford on its limited budget...
...Spanish Republic's avowed determination to protect ecclesiastical property by martial law, if necessary, is factual evidence which supports its accusation of communists and monarchists as responsible for the destruction of churches. It has taken the only wise course. The new Cabinet cannot afford to incur the enmity of Rome. If the republican government survives at all, it must walk a narrow road for several years, and any widespread conflict with the Church will roll it into the political quicksands...
...science with science. . . . Newspaper editors who refuse to meet changing conditions will reach the same end that came upon carriage manufacturers, canal companies, stage coach owners. . . . The greatest expense to all of us is printing paper. The paper we use is wretched. . . . In a world of color . . . we cannot afford to plug along . . . in sombre black and white...
...necktie [speckled green & brown]. If I thought that this necktie would have to last me for the rest of my life, I'd pick out something pretty conventional, pretty safe and pretty dull. But since I will probably get another necktie in a month or two I can afford to take a chance...
...large pink Zeus for the pediment of the Philadelphia Museum smiled glassily down last week on the 50th Anniversary show of the New York Architectural League. It was a show that few serious art students could afford to miss. Two floors of the Grand Central Palace contained a fairly complete review of the past two years in architecture, not only of the U. S. but of Sweden, Mexico and Soviet Russia...