Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a Pacific Coast professor who cannot afford to travel East for the big shows of Science last week got a view of such proceedings when the American Association for the Advancement of Science met at Berkeley, Calif, for a light summer session. Important attractions for Easterners were Dean Gilbert Newton Lewis' supply of heavy water at the University of California, and Professor Ernest O. Lawrence's magnetic generator of 5,000,000 volts. Notable among the general palaver of A. A. A. S. members were the following points made by the following...
...know what it is to go starving, what it is to go through 18 months of strike and to taste the bitter dregs of defeat. "I don't want you to risk a conflict when the odds are against us. It would set us back and we cannot afford to be set back. It is better at this time to observe the weight of sound judgment rather than the dictates of feeling. There is no more domineering, autocratic, dictorial and reprehensible group than those who represent the steel corporations of this country." Mr. Green proposed the appointment by President...
...turbulence of a college rowing race. Since it started in 1895, the Poughkeepsie Regatta has become the biggest, the most important of the year. The succession of races has been interrupted only twice: first during the War, again last year when few of the participating colleges felt they could afford to send boats Last week, the river was again filled with big shiny yachts; excursion craft, canoe; and launches got in each other's way, capsized, annoyed police boats. By the time the observation train started down the river in the early evening, a crowd...
...became Dr. Roy Rachford Kracke's job at Emory University, Atlanta. Clever reasoning led him to suspect certain new-fangled pain-killing drugs manufactured from benzamine derivatives of coal tar. Negroes, who seldom complain of minor aches or pains, do not use those drugs. Poor people cannot afford them. Doctors get them as free samples. "We have seen few physicians," said Dr. Kracke last week, "who do not have a package of allonal, amytal compound, peralga, or other such drugs lying on their desk within easy reach. It is easy for the doctor and certainly common practice when members...
Taking one consideration with another, it would appear that the vagaries of the nations are about to afford commentators some excellent opportunities for mordant solemnities. CONFUCIUS...