Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia's municipal finances are in a bad way. All Philadelphia knows it; few Philadelphians seem to care. The city's gas plant is in hock to RFC. Its public libraries can afford to replace only 20,000 of 85,000 dog-eared books which are thumbed to tatters each year. More than a third of Philadelphia's annual revenues go to service old debts. Expensive subways, promoted during the heedless '203, are sealed and empty catacombs; Philadelphia lacked the money to run them or to pay for them...
...newspaper Völkischer Beobachter drew a fanciful parallel: Joseph Stalin with Alexander the Great. No two men could be less alike. Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics. Vain Alexander refused to grow a beard on the specious grounds that it would afford a handle which an opponent in war might grasp; diffident Stalin wears huge mustachios to make himself look more inscrutable. Alexander was imaginative, athletic, quick as an ocelot; Stalin is practical, ponderous, deliberate as a bear. Only similarity: Diogenes, out looking for an honest man, would not shine his lamp...
...established price for a review is $2.50 an hour, but each student is asked to pay only what he can afford. It is difficult to say how much time is required to straighten out problems, but Salmen stated that a $10 charge is unusual...
...Alumni meets have been of the 'thrilling' type because not only do they afford the season's first test of a usually green Varsity, but because they present the unusual and sometimes pathetic spectacle of some of Harvard's all-time aquatic here, Charlie Hutter, will take time off from his Medical School studies to compete in the sprint events, while his perpetual Alumni-meet rival, George "24-second" Scott, plans to thrash out a mighty 50 yards. Rusty Greenhood, last year's captain and League champion diver, will team with Bun Merriam, another former Crimson star, to features...
...preferred stockholders. Said a Wall Street brokerage house: "Preferred stockholders get nothing in return for their sacrifices; common stockholders make no sacrifices in return for their benefits." President G. W. Cox of Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. did what no less potent stockholder could afford. He sent out far & wide among preferred stockholders, lined up opposition votes as far afield as the Midwest. Many another big insurance company, holder of Curtis preferred, girded...