Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every undergraduate spends at least three years of his life in one of the seven Houses, unless he finds a wife, enlists, plays a noisy musical instrument, has parents living nearby, becomes physically or mentally ill, or cannot afford to live in a House...
...Britain has held off the enemy and so given us time to realize at last that we could not buy our way through wars and would have to fight them? Could one reason for our criticism and condemnation be the fear that now even England can no longer afford us an opportunity not to have to fight...
...Yoshio Tsuchiya), whose wife was carried off in the last raid, does not wail; he resolves to fight. And the wise old man who lives in the mill reveals to the vil lagers a way to fight: hire soldiers to fight for you. But how can poor farmers possibly afford to pay soldiers? Let them be hungry soldiers, the sage explains, and pay them with rice...
Questioned about his crime, Wagner said, "It was just to be the one robbery and no more. I felt guilty because my parents were going to send me to this very expensive college, and I knew they couldn't afford it and would have to make sacrifices...
...These would not be research professorships,--inspired teaching along unconventional lines would be an important phase of the work. Such posts would afford an unusual opportunity for brilliant and imaginative men: the positions by their very nature would be a challenge,--a challenge which must be answered by earnest attempts to achieve that synthesis of modern knowledge which the world demands with so much insistence...