Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there burst yesterday a new factor of the utmost importance, namely the danger of war with the planet Mars. Completely dwarfing the petty Czechoslovakian quibble, this new terror drove deep into the panic-stricken hearts of Americans, uncovering in its violence a fundamental fact which no thinking person can afford to ignore: namely, America is a part of the universe...
...five or six representative answers which were printed all said that the University was able to afford taxes and should pay them. The "Citizen" is seeking an answer from this side of the river which will express Harvard's point of view...
...Psychology departments, head the second group. Similar are the lectures on modern music sponsored by the Music Department and numerous informal lectures, closed to the masses, on science, literature, current politics usually held in House common rooms. The latter, followed to advantage by meals in the dining halls, afford a great opportunity for knowing distinguished teachers outside the classroom...
Next month, people who can afford to pay 50? for a magazine and have the time to read 30,000 word "abridgments" will be offered Omnibook, published and edited by Robert Kenneth Straus, New York City Councilman and son of Jesse Isadore Straus, late Macy store tycoon and Ambassador to France. Each Omnibook page will contain four book pages with margins trimmed. Each number will include about 100 pages from each of five books...
...Mississippi was the U. S. frontier. Matthew B. (for nothing) Brady was then the affluent kingpin of Eastern photographers, organizer of the most ambitious photographic survey of the century-the Civil War in 7.000 plates. No tough daguerreotypist who trundled over the Great Plains in that period could afford such scope, though from the Gold Rush on, photographers went along with the pioneers, the troops, the railroads. A disheartening revelation of the Taft book is how much of their unpretentious but now invaluable work has been carelessly lost; almost as great a revelation is the amount that survives. Samples...