Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First he shifted Art Lyman from blocking back to center on the second eleven in order to afford game relief for Burgy Ayres, who was forced to go 60 minutes in the Bates encounter. And as a counterpart to that move, Hank Vander Eb went back to Lyman's backfield post after a short stay...
...autumn lanes of migratory wildfowl, but in the opposite direction, sought out a squadron of the British Navy which they evidently knew was out maneuvering in open water, or which they just happened to find there. Weather favored the fliers when they located their targets: clouds low enough to afford a screen for the dive bombers to come down through, yet not so solid but that heavy, non-diving bombers could drop "stuff" from far aloft through cloud holes...
...notice that at his record- autographing session at the Minute Man shop yesterday, Woody Herman had a larger audience than did Benny Goodman last year at Widener Library. In fact, two or three of the country's dance band leaders who also specialize in playing clarinet could afford to take lessons from Woody in the art of handling people...
...Director of Athletics in his letters pointed out the provisions made for students who could not afford to pay for their tutoring. The Committee on the Supervision of Students has set up a system of rates that provides for a charge of from nothing to $2.50 per hour according to the student's ability...
...visit to the President (see p. 11), San Antonio's Mayor Maury Maverick announced that he favored a third term for Roosevelt "1,000%." Mayor Maverick declared that Fellow Texan Garner's "future is behind him," said: "In a time of emergency like this we cannot afford to have a man as President as old as Mr. Garner is. He is a fine Christian, water-drinking gentleman. . . . No man has ever been elected in his seventies except Harrison* and I think he caught a cold and died in office...