Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surely gymnastics afford a splendid test of athletic efficiency, developing coordination of all the muscles. This year more men came out for the team than for many years past. These men had fine natural ability. If they had had a coach, they would have developed into a well-rounded team, since there were good men for all the apparatus. Having no coach, they had to train themselves practicing their old "stunts" and picking up a few new ones. When they met well coached teams, they were ignominiously defeated. Amherst beat them...
Since many of the women raped were killed and buried indiscriminately with Chinese civilians, police and soldiers dispatched by the Japanese execution squads, there are no reliable statistics, but last week every white authority agreed that modern history does not afford another instance of such wholesale rape...
Thirty years ago only the rich could afford the strange meaty taste of avocado pears. Now avocados cost around a dime apiece instead of $5. West Indian avocados are grown in Florida, and some 13,000,000 pounds were imported last season from Cuba (certain spectacular avocados weigh two pounds apiece). But most avocados eaten in the U. S. come from California. Californians look down their noses at the West Indian article; California avocados are Guatemalan or Mexican or a cross beween the two. The Fuerte, a hybrid, called "the sturdy" because it shivered through the Big Freeze...
When the visiting Cambridge University squash team appeared in Cambridge last weekend there was no one to meet them, no one to afford them even the bare rudiments of hospitality. If it had not been for one or two public spirited Harvard racquetmen, the Englishmen would have had no actual contact with this University until the match began. In fact, there might have been no match at all, as they did not even know where to inquire about the time and place of the encounter. The one or two racquetmen, however, forsook their study for hour examinations, took their visitors...
...expansion purposes. Last week he appeared before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee to denounce investment bankers and suggest the creation by the Government of national industrial banks to provide capital to small businesses. Said he: "The time has come when the Government must step in and not only afford adequate facilities to business, but break up the grip of the investment banking group upon the money markets of this country...