Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Even with government money apartments built on this land will rent for $9.75 per room per month. With land at $6 per foot the rental can be cut to $8.75. Yet plenty of stinking flats are available today at $2 or $3 per room. Poor people can afford no more. If one slum area is cleared, its residents crowd into another, and higher-income groups move into the nice new buildings. When Fred F. French razed...
...attend state universities or other less expensive schools. Yale has also raised scholarship funds by alumni subscription. Harvard's answer to the problem has been, the $40,000 emergency fund for student employment, helpful, but inadequate, and often requiring more of a student's time than he can afford to give from his studies...
...pleasantly rural flavor. But Illinois is by no means a bumpkin college. Down from Chicago, 130 mi. to the north, come more than one-third of Urbana-Champaign's 8,500 students, bringing big city airs and manners for all the rest to ape. Young men who can afford it dress like customers' men and young women look fresh from Michigan Boulevard. Dancing and "dates" are far & away their favorite pastimes, followed by swimming, fencing, hockey. A Yaleman or Wellesley woman would feel strange in Urbana-Champaign for a while, but a student from Ann Arbor, Madison...
...hours last week Philadelphia was faced with the prospect of having no grand opera next season. The New York Metropolitan announced that it could no longer afford its weekly trips there. Philadelphians, it seemed, had been sluggish about contributing to the Metropolitan's life-or-death drive last spring. Day later, however, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association took most of the sting from the Metropolitan's action by announcing that it would put on opera itself, three performances a week during ten of its 30-week season...
...practical matter be of little avail. This is because the law requires that before an industry or its units can be put on a license basis there must be a public hearing with due notice. Any such sensational procedure would take time and would mean that the hearing would afford an opportunity to try the case in the court of public opinion, which is something the motor car executives are anxious to do. For they could prove that as employers they have not exploited their workmen either on hours of work or rates of wages...