Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staffed by ten or fewer teachers who can do little but provide the bare basics of education. The costly solution: consolidating school districts wherever possible, to produce bigger schools and better facilities. To do otherwise, summed up the committee, would be "a false luxury this country cannot now afford. Reorganization of school districts is an imperative national need...
Idealistic Swivet. As early as May 2. Ambassador Francis made a forthright plea for intervention, asking rhetorically "whether [the] Allies can longer afford to overlook principles [of worldwide social revolution] which Lenin is aggressively-championing...
...first winning season in Ivy League history, establish a new record for most games won in a single season, and notch the first Big Three championship for a Harvard quintet. All this, of course, is mere addition to the satisfaction which only a victory over a Yale team can afford...
...west. The great trouble, said Pennsy Vice President J. Benton Jones, was "under-maintenance." Most of the stalled engines were between 15 and 23 years old, many of them the same engines that broke down under similar conditions during the winter of 1942-43. Yet the Pennsy cannot afford to buy new engines...
That sort of thing so well satisfies Rhoden's young customers (70% under 24) in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota that he can afford to shrug off television. "TV is for the older folks." says he. "A teen-ager who has a date doesn't want to stay at home." Rhoden waves off major Hollywood productions ("Gary Grant won't sell teen-agers"), even throws out westerns unless they have a young cast. Result: his 1957 gross increased 18% over 1956; this year's is still growing...