Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revised blank requires the names of two instructors and of directors of extra-curricular activities who know the applicant, rather than the single name of the man's tutor. Information from these persons and from personal interviews with Mr. Sharpe, which are a new feature this year, will afford the scholarship committee a broader and more intimate knowledge of every applicant than was previously available...
...there were iron deer on U. S. lawns, lending the last touch of grandeur to the fancy wooden scrollwork of the mansions behind them. Every home that could afford one had a "den," with leather armchair, pennants on the wall, an ashtray shaped like a skull. Lucky theatre-goers saw Ben Hur, with real horses racing madly on a treadmill track. Cars were called "au-to-mo-biles," 25 miles an hour was a devilish pace, a puncture a major accident. Against such a 1904 backdrop, Author Brinig this week published a lengthy (570-page) tale that covered...
...Delay in any court results in injustice. It makes lawsuits a luxury available only to the few who can afford them or who have property interests to protect which are sufficiently large to repay the cost. . . . The Supreme Court is laboring under a heavy burden. Its difficulties in this respect were superficially lightened some years ago by authorizing the Court, in its discretion, to refuse to hear appeals in many classes of cases. This discretion was so freely exercised that in the last fiscal year, although 867 petitions for review were presented to the Supreme Court, it declined to hear...
...Federal prisoners who are addicts. Fort Worth is to be primarily for voluntary patients. Volunteers will be obliged to present certificates from their private doctors that they want to take the cure. They must sign an agreement that they will remain in the hospital until discharged. If they can afford it, they must pay $1 a day for board, room, and doctoring. Two years' experience at Lexington persuaded authorities that the system of cure which Dr. Lawrence Kolb has put into effect there is the best ever. Soon as a patient is admitted he receives physical and mental examination...
...distrust has had some justification. In the first place the typical expert with whom we have had experience in government has been nurtured apart from the realities and so given to fitting his task to his theories. Also, with a comparatively modest bureaucracy, we have been better able to afford the trial and error methods of the deserving partisan. But now government has so expanded its functions that it has become the country's major industry and the need of a trained personnel is magnified, and the Harvard program proposes a brand of expert whose pedantry is minimized...