Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed it did not matter; Florence was now the family moneymaker. But she found the business of being a champion took more than brawn, more than brains; in self defense she had become a cold-eyed, hard-shelled racketeer. When the man she loved but thought she could not afford to marry finally saw what she had become, Florence realized at last she was hopelessly in love with him. Too late, she was wedded to her business...
...This will . . . afford more payload capacity. . . . Beryllium seems to be the metal that will make commercial airplanes out of the present day flying gasoline tanks...
President Ernest Hatch Wilkins, of Oberlin College: "The technique of the army and navy will hardly serve. Pictorial posters placed about the campus, with instructors detached for recruiting duty, pacing up and down in academic costumes would attract more missiles than missionaries. Teaching must be attractive . . . interesting . . . afford chance for distinction and for service; and it must give promise of financial competence for happy family life...
Next week Manhattanites may expect to see billboards and subway placards advertising "Opera at the Polo Grounds." Impresario Alfredo Salmaggi will offer Aida in New York's big baseball park on Aug. 2, second annual presentation. Last year's outdoor Aida drew crowds who cannot afford Metropolitan opera seats, can afford Polo Ground opera at $1. Encouraged by success, Maestro Salmaggi has swelled this year's cast to 1,000, has added three camels, three elephants, eight horses to the Egyptian props. Impressive in the big concrete stadium will be vocal choruses, troupes of dancers, parades in full oriental pomp...
...only lived for many years thereafter, he died at the age of 89, Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux and Senator of the Gironde! Messieurs, can France afford to bury alive men who may become her foremost citizens...