Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a non-Catholic has been perplexed by indulgences, believing that they afford an easy means of forgiveness of sin or pardon for future sin. According to Catholic doctrine, an indulgence is the remission in whole or in part of temporal punishment (in Purgatory) for sins whose guilt has already been forgiven. It may be a plenary indulgence, granted only by the Pope, remitting all punishment; or a partial indulgence releasing the sinner from a certain number of days or years of it. This method of reckoning indulgences is based on the Early Christian custom of expiating sins with public...
...telling her I could understand the Library's discontinuing its New Yorker & Vanity Fair subscriptions but as for its TIME discontinuation, goodness, no, never! Her excuse was that the Library had so many research periodicals to subscribe to that it just couldn't see how it could afford to subscribe to TIME...
...satisfied with this gossamer explanation, I asked to be shown in black and white just how TIME was inferior to The Literary Digest, a magazine to which the Library can afford to subscribe. The Digest, I argued, merely showed scissors whereas TIME showed a much finer pair of shears. Her reply here was that TIME was "a smart-alecky and a funny magazine-something like Ballyhoo...
...were the lustiest and Frederic Langford was fairly dithering when he knew that he had won. A native of Jamestown, N. Y., he has worked for six years in the Episcopal Church Book Store, recommending reading for women's auxiliaries, going evenings to the opera when he could afford admission to stand. Day after the contest a tinny borrowed piano was carted out of his rooming-house and the shiny Knabe Grand was moved in. But the 200-odd observers foresaw greater reward for Frederic Langford and the seven other finalists. In the audience were radio scouts, theatrical producers...
...back, drifting about like gas? . . . To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. . . . The death of a Turkish bridge or rail, machine or gun, or high explosive was more profitable to us than the death of a Turk. . . . We could not afford casualties. . . . Our ideal was to keep his railways just working, but only just, with the maximum of loss and discomfort to him. . . . We used the smallest force in the quickest time at the farthest place...