Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shirts they could buy. As contestants in what is one of the most unprofitable as well as one of the riskiest of sports, rodeo cowboys average about $3,000 a year in prize money, spend most of it on traveling expenses, clothes, entry fees, hospital bills. Few, therefore, can afford to pass up the Madison Square Garden rodeo, which offers the season's biggest total prize money ($38,000), augmented this year by the entry fees in all events...
...because he "wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos, Calif, since publication of his best-selling Of Mice and Men* (167,000 copies) Mr. Steinbeck can well afford to abandon an erstwhile $25-a-month budget which he and his tall, brunette wife Carol supplemented by fishing, not for fun, from their own launch in Monterey...
...come into the light this year. Whereas Erhard and Wright are coming into their last year of college and intercollegiate competition, Brayton has the advantage of being only a Junior this year, and if he needs another year to bring him to his peak, he can afford...
Most dangerous element in Europe today--in the world today, he feels, is Italy's outspoken ambitions in the Mediterranean. There "British and French possessions are so important that they could ill afford, in the long run, to allow Mussolini to realize his aspiration...
...outdoors and thus have a steady year-round season, they have attracted a number of standard-racing drivers, most notable of whom is Lou Schneider, who won at Indianapolis in 1931. Top-notch drivers average about $750 a week. Most of the rest average $125. Few can now afford to own the cars they drive. Like his brother, racing what he calls a "big iron" the ''little iron" driver is inordinately susceptible to quirks and superstitions. No driver will paint his car green. No driver likes to catch sight of a customer munching peanuts. No driver will...