Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These conditions are rarely the fault of local or state administration. North Dakota, for instance, spends twice as much percentage-wise of its annual income on education as California, and yet can afford to pay its teachers only half as much. There simply isn't enough money for education--outside of Washington. The proposed bill would deal out the federal funds to each state, giving most of it to the needy, and only a soupcon to such rich states as New York...
Wriston said that almost every state can afford good high schools, but that many are neglecting their duty. These are the states that would get the federal aid, he stated...
Three-quarters of the nation's 17-18 year-olds are not enrolled in colleges, the report continued. At least half of this group cannot possibly afford a college education for financial reasons, and the proposed program would aid worthy students whose families' incomes are about $3000 or less a year...
...because they fear the friendship of the West more than its hostility. They cannot afford to allow free and friendly intercourse to grow up between the vast areas they control and the civilizations of the West...
...drops into Dallas and makes a little speech at one of the service clubs. He always comes back with $25 or $50. He has a few special contributors, among them a policeman who regularly shows up with stacks of tablets and boxes of pencils for students who cannot afford them. Last week, Joe got something he has been after for a long time: a local club offered to buy him a plow so that he and his students could start a garden of their own. Another club had already provided the seeds, and a dairy company the fertilizer...