Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably Yardlings will find the most trouble in fixing a room rate. By all means they should decide beforehand exactly how much they can pay, and those who can afford high-priced rooms should resolve to set a high limit out of fairness to the men able to afford only the lowest-priced. Freshmen who must ask for the cheapest accommodations ought not to feel discouraged, as House Masters will take their finances into consideration. Once an applicant commits himself on a price limit, he is bound, unless he can provide an extraordinary excuse, to pay the same rate...
...Thomas Kennedy, elected Governor this year; 2) that Pennsylvania's Democratic boss, Senator Joseph F. Guffey does not want him at the head of the ticket because Mr. Kennedy is a better labor man than Democrat; 3) that Pennsylvania's present Governor, George Howard Earle, can hardly afford to alienate either Joseph Guffey or the strongest labor leader in U. S. history if he expects to be elected Senator this year and President in 1940. Last week these three open secrets exploded at a piping hot mush breakfast in the dining room of the Governor's mansion...
Last week Miss Fields (alias Mrs. Archie Selinger) could well afford the fancy gown and long kid gloves in which she alighted from her limousine at Buckingham Palace. The most famed of 187 persons who had come to receive from the hand of George VI the stars, orders and ribbons awarded in the New Year's Honors (TIME, Jan. 10), she curtsied demurely while the King-Emperor pinned the rose-colored ribbon and the badge of a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
...pair of skis. In Norway children start to ski when they are 4, can usually jump 60 ft. when they are 8 and 150 ft. when they are 12. To encourage the sport, the Norwegian Ski Association each year gives 5,000 pairs of skis to children who cannot afford to buy them...
Slowly but surely the magazine gained readers and advertisers. Yet when TIME was nearly three years old (circulation: 105,530), Editor Luce spent two hours one evening walking around Manhattan's Bryant Park with an old friend debating whether he and Editor Hadden could afford to raise their own salaries to $50 a week (their writers already were paid more). He decided they would be justified in doing it. But so ingrained was the habit of plowing back profits into the improvement of the magazine that not until 1929 (circulation: 243,400) could enough money be spared...