Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know that the great Blight isn't over yet but it does seem as though the University could afford to provide some keys to University Hall for the minor officials such as the Dean of the College. Last night we saw Dean Hanford trying the door by his office and finding it locked, try all the rest of the doors in turn. Finally giving it up as a hopeless job, he turned forlornly away...
...entire matter to Britain and the U. S. who might be willing to challenge Japan for their own good but not for the good of China. An appeal that fails is worse than no appeal at all. China held her peace. One little nose-thumbing at Japan Nanking could afford. Though Japan had made much of her opposition to the sale of munitions to China, and the use of foreign military instructors for Chinese troops, a commission of 22 bright young Chinese officers left Shanghai last week to visit Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain and finally...
...Railway Express depot on Manhattan's loth Avenue one morning last week three lizards sprawled in their crates and hissed their sullen woe. They were waiting for a U. S. customs officer to let them be hauled up to The Bronx Zoo. They could afford to wait. They had come a long way. In space it was 11,000 mi., from the Island of Komodo between Sumbawa and Flores in the Dutch East Indies. In time it was more than 60,000,000 years...
...Adam Gimbel Bavarian Jew who set up as storekeeper in Vincennes, Ind. in 1842, now control one of the largest department store chains in the U. S. Gimbel Brothers. Inc. has stores in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee and three in Manhattan. Even in 1932 Gimbel's could afford to lose $4,000,000. The three Manhattan stores are Saks 34th Street, which cultivates the masses, Saks Fifth Avenue, which cultivates the classes, and Gimbel's which cultivates a rivalry with its neighbor, Macy...
...doubts, he suggests that the NSL study the German situation on the spot for four years. Inasmuch as we have only one member who has spent more than two years in Germany during the last year of the Weimar Republic and the first year of Hitlerism, and we cannot afford the four years abroad he generously recommends, we have been forced to eke out our experience of twenty-seven months in Germany with the study of books, newspapers, and periodicals...