Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historical writing, as well as a study in the workings of democracy in a waning world, "Road to War" is one of the most important books written for many years, and will surely remain as the standard work on the subject. No intelligent man or woman can afford to miss it; the time may well come when Mr. Millis' lesson can be turned to good advantage...
...unionists that "security wages" would not sap private wages. He offered figures to prove that by working steadily for the Government at security wages they would make more than building tradesmen had averaged on sporadic private jobs for the past five years. He pleaded that the Government could not afford to pay any more. He begged, "Don't do it, boys!" Finally he turned to threats, ordered strikers to be back on their jobs this week or else be dropped from relief rolls...
Certainly our country can ill-afford to have foreign nations involved in a war, especially a conflict which with little provocation might develop into another international struggle with disrupting and demoralizing effects to our commerce. There are those who would have us believe the U. S. to be a self-sufficient nation. On the contrary, intelligent persons know that to be prosperous our merchants, manufacturers and growers must export at least 10% of their products. In turn, we must import rubber, spices, alloy minerals, yute and countless necessities of which we produce little or none within our 48 States...
...surprised also at the contents of Steve Grey's story. The story, a death-house interview with an investment racketeer (Harvey Stephens) whom Grey's testimony has helped to convict and whose arrest and trial he has covered with breath-taking efficiency, is meant to afford the denouement of the film and, handled with more care, it might have been an exceedingly effective melodramatic twist. Unfortunately, Authors Tim Whelan (who also directed the film) and Guy Bolton built up to it poorly through the earlier portions of the picture, which develop Grey's romance with the director...
...Encyclopedia Britannica comes in 24 volumes and costs $126.50; if the smallest New International comes in 14 volumes and costs $95; if Everyman's comes in twelve volumes and costs $30, then how can a Michigan farmer afford a first-rate encyclopedia? The tall, taciturn proprietor of one Michigan farm looked over a fence rail at his neighbors and pondered that question. What the U. S. needed, Dr. Clarke Fisher Ansley decided, was a good one-volume encyclopedia...