Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House sat Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was Man of the Year in 1932, when the New Deal was new. More popular than the day he won the Presidency, he had lived up to the brightest expectations of the electorate. But he needed no fresh laurels, could well afford to pass them along to an associate. The secret of the New Deal's success lies in the well-known fact that the time to make sociological hay is when, the economic sun is not shining. But four years of hard times did not soften the U. S. industrial order...
...those who do not need or cannot afford private ownership of the 13-vol. Oxford Dictionary ($125), the Oxford Press has issued a two-volume Shorter Oxford English Dictionary ($18; TIME, April 3). Owners of the 1028 edition of the big dictionary ($450) got the Supplement free...
...Lowell House Common Room, plans for skiing were revealed to the 50 enthusiasts who attended. Herbert S. Sise 34, captain of this year's team, and Bradford Washburn '33, last year's captain, outlined the season's schedule and explained how the division of instruction would be made to afford each man the maximum possible training...
...Good Americans (by Sidney J. and Laura West Perelman; Courtney Burr, producer) is a glib notation on the way some U. S. citizens, who live year-round in Paris, drink, wisecrack, pose and suffer. A tall, indolent young writer (Fred Keating) vaguely wishes he could afford to marry a striding, firm-chinned Paris fashion expert with a dazzling smile (Hope Williams). He is reduced to living off commissions from Paris stores to which he steers rich U. S. girls, finally resigns himself to the idea of marrying one. With laconic bitterness Hope Williams counters by encouraging a rich New York...
...money $10 a year I can secure better seats than other classmates and other Harvard men who cannot afford the $10 a year. My code of ethics says this is graft. F. W. C. Foster...