Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Could not TIME . . . afford the two or three lines necessary to state that the use of barbiturates as antidotes for strychnine poisoning (TIME. March 13) was established by my associates Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard and Mr. Leon Arnold Greenberg...
Founded by Copperman Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh, the Fellowships continue to afford security for a year of work and creation, but depression has forced the number of winners from 77 two years ago to 57 last year, 38 this year. Poet George Dillon (The Flowering Stone) won a Pulitzer Prize while still a Guggenheimer (TIME. May 9); his Fellowship is renewed this year. Another repeater is moody George Antheil, cacophonous composer. Other winners: Artists Emil Ganso. Louis Bouche and Miguel Covarrubias (who will paint in the Dutch East Indies); Sculptress Gwen Lux; Poets e. e. cummings, Louise...
Vitangelo Moscarda, young married man of the town of Richieri, could afford to entertain ideas: his banker-father had left him controlling interest in the bank, with no responsibility beyond signing an occasional paper. His young wife and he loved each other, lived comfortably; but was he content? He was not. His wife called him Gengé and thought him a dear silly fellow. Townsfolk called him "the usurer." When he tried to catch a glimpse of himself as he really was, he found- nothing. The more he brooded over his undiscoverable identity the more despairing he became. Finally...
...historical events to the discoveries of science. Undoubtedly mistakes occur, undoubtedly there are omissions, most frequent perhaps among the works of contemporary writers whom Sir Paul Harvey has not thought of sufficient importance. But the book contains an inestimable wealth of information in a form so handy few can afford not to use it. Particularly it should be of advantage to men preparing for divisional examinations in any moderns language Department, but most especially in English...
...brains were driven over to the Communist Party, where they played brilliant and important roles in the successive overthrows of the Czarist, Miliukov, and Kerensky governments. Hitler would do well to take careful note of this example. The Marxist movement is powerful today in Germany; and the Nazis cannot afford to deflect ability and energy to their enemy's camp...