Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister, Dr. Rudolf Holsti, resigned last week. Official reason: bad health, low pay. Real reason : pressure from Germany because Dr. Holsti, Finnish delegate to the League of Nations, reportedly made uncomplimentary remarks about Führer Adolf Hitler. Baltic observers concluded that Finland, like dismembered Czechoslovakia, can no longer afford to have outspoken anti-Nazis in its Government...
...experiment has been more valuable to Teachers College than New College," said he, but T. C. cannot afford to ante up $35,000 for its anticipated annual deficit...
...Germany it is guns-instead-of-butter, but the French Finance Minister called last week for guns instead of public works, the dole or leaf raking. He cried: "A country which next year is going to spend 25 billions of francs for national defense cannot afford the luxury of great public works. Machine guns are more necessary today-alas-than stone fountains for villages." Paul Reynaud insisted that the 32 decrees stop just short of totalitarianism of either Left or Right, preserve in economics a "Liberal Regime" as he called it on the radio. No. 1 Trade Union Boss Leon...
Beefy, intense-looking Harrington Gates, the only one of their ten children that a family in Saugus, Mass. could afford to educate well, was Dartmouth quarterback, a hard-hitting blocker trained at Dean Academy by Coach Daniel ("Dirty Dan") Sullivan. Last year Heavenly Gates played on the Dartmouth team all season. Last September, Gates, a senior, did not show up for practice. Football, he told his friends, was commercialized, godless; the players swore too much...
...National Horse Show, held annually in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, has long been the No. 1 sport event on the U. S. social calendar, partly because the high jinks and hubbub which always accompany it afford occasion for a discreet parade of fashion and public display, partly because it is one of the few sporting events in which women can compete on an equal footing with men. But it was not until the 1920s, when the horse had lost its last stigma of practicality, that the Horse Show, with two exceptions an annual event since 1883, actually came...