Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least one man who, though a competent workman, understands that existence is primarily a droll affair, with the horselaugh predominant not only to the grave, but after the will is read. For purposes of keeping up morale and teaching the cardinal truths of life, any large paper could afford to hire, at princely salary, such a man as Gene Fowler . . . or Joel Sayre, a wandering behemoth who went to Hollywood. ... As balloon-prickers, daubers of stuffed shirts and philosophical pranksters such men are worth any dozen efficiency experts. . . ." After he has learned the million...
...efficiency with which business draws ability to its service and the haphazard way in which most public servants are recruited. The idea, however, is not a new one, for included in the last will and testament of George Washington is the wish for a national institution at Washington to afford to young people a training in the social sciences, particularly government and politics...
Major Selwyn went to work. But he did not get along with Boers or blacks; his cattle did not thrive; he could not afford the guards the Boers maintained against native thievery; and finally his old wound began slowly to paralyze him. Four years ago he quit and his wife took over...
...reason, nevertheless, is economic, not political, and viewed impartially the situation furnishes, in its own way, an example of somewhat poetic justice. Furthermore it has the merit of being illustrated in such a form that even a Rotarian can grasp its significance. Whether Germany can afford to pay the million or so additional dollars which payment of 100 pfennigs on the mark would mean is beside the point, nor will aspersions on the integrity of the German Government or aides memoires suffice to raise the ante. The important thing is that while Germany undoubtedly has both the gold and dollar...
...with him. In defense of the last, the student claimed that it was the accepted custom except for the first fifteen students who were not supposed to carry the answers. But the culprits were all re-admitted after writing a series of abject apologies, because the college could not afford to lose the business...