Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather apologetically that Japan has been admitted to the U.N., and that it was "appropriate" for the country to have a holiday celebrating national foundation. Japanese politicians for the most part were doubtful that they could push the bill through-or at least the Feb. 11 date. "We cannot afford," said the English-language Japan Times, "to take the chance of reviving that provincial conceit which proved such a disaster for the nation...
...meet the demands of undergraduates. But the current method of reducing their cost-crowding leads to inferior education as well as discomfort. The new Houses will meet educational requirements by having private studies but eliminate the Common Rooms, private baths, fireplaces, and individual entries which we can no longer afford. But if this means that only the well to do will live in the old Houses, then the College and the President should reconsider their program. Gracious living is very nice, but if gracious living means social stratification, the price is too high...
Techniques of Execution. King's Morehouse record (major in sociology) won him scholarship offers from three seminaries. But Martin Luther King Sr., a man of considerable parts, held that scholarships should go only to boys who could otherwise not afford to continue their education. King Sr. therefore reached into his own pocket to send his son to Pennsylvania's Crozer Theological Seminary...
...18th Century. The center has also set up cooperative professorships so that two or more colleges can share a scholar they would not have been able to afford alone. It has arranged intercampus conferences in special fields, compiled a catalogue of all periodicals in the members' libraries, organized a joint adult education program with an enrollment of 7,000. Last week member deans and presidents added other projects, e.g., a plan by which six or seven of the smaller campuses would share the cost and use of an atomic reactor, and another to enable five colleges to share...
Though some Hudson plants are taking on more defense contracts (e.g., B57 assembly), stockholders were told American must keep producing Hudsons for the compelling reason that it cannot yet afford to switch entirely to other lines. To criticism about salaries paid to top officers, management noted that American managers received an average $48,511 from Hudson and Nash-Kelvinator before the merger, now average...