Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Belgian confidence quickening, Manager van Zealand of the National Bank of Belgium addressed German economists in Berlin, stressed that "our published gold reserves afford a cover for sight liabilities varying between...
...that those in authority have decided that in lieu of the vanished pomps of yesteryear, the public is at least entitled to a few good belly laughs and for this reason are relaxing their vigil over our entertainment. If we can't afford to be decadent we can at least have our humor more rudimentary. There are abounding proofs that standards are becoming more liberalized. "Hot Pepper," a McLaglon-Lowe comedy coming to the University Theatre in the near future, is a good case in point...
Officials at Lehman Hall, in charge of dormitory accommodations stated that the University cannot afford to replace Shepherd Hall at the present time, and the building is not considered of sufficient value to warrant extensive repairs. The system of fire-doors, which the Inspector held to be inadequate, will be improved, and an attempt will be made to lessen the other fire hazards caused by the wooden construction and external wiring...
...citadel, but some record different events in the siege, or do not begin at the same dates. Merely a notation of the happenings of the war, little in the way of a story book may be expected from the diaries; but to the student of colonial history they afford a wealth of material in factual form. Deaths seem to occupy large portions of each day's entries and it is interesting to note that many of the wounds resulted from explosions of the colonists' own cannon, so inexperienced were the militia in handling heavy field pieces. Thanks to the assiduousness...
...does diplomacy afford the most important argument in favor of recognition. The old insistence of many economists that The old insistence of may economists that the most efficient, way to prevent the Soviet dumpting which has so frightened our producers is the extension of credit to Russia with a view to enabling her to purchase from us, is meeting a wider acceptance. Business men in this country have realized for some time that they are losing Russia's custom because of the government's diplomatic stand, and have protested against it. The Soviet rulers favor American methods and machinery...