Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of my Ministers, any provision for unemployed persons should not only afford material assistance but should also be designed to maintain their morale and fitness to resume work when opportunities can be found. My government intend to bring forward measures dealing comprehensively with unemployment insurance and with the treatment of those unable to obtain work, and the considerations I have mentioned will be borne in mind in framing their proposals...
...Paul would reject this proposal (as the President proceeded to do), came out first with a fighting statement: "There is only one man who can be Chancellor at this period and he is Adolf Hitler! If Hitler does not become Chancellor now, he will within four months. He can afford to wait...
...open to those men who are able to carry an extra subject and are interested in securing their commission. Although the training received is mostly that of artillery, a man in the course spends the summer of his Junior year in Camp Ethan Allen. The camp is equipped to afford adequate training in the operation of cannon and regular ground maneuvers. It is in the camping period that the men get the most intimate contact with the actual practice of their study. A provisional battery is formed with the Yale unit in the camp. The first three weeks...
...horrible"' in the House of Commons by kind-hearted Leader Stanley Baldwin of the ruling Conservative Party. On top of such a speech, His Majesty's Government could scarcely threaten, in writing, to bomb Abyssinians into letting Kenya alone. Obviously, too, His Majesty's Government cannot afford to police the whole Kenya frontier. What to do? Staring His Majesty's Government in the face was the fact that over 1,000 Kenyans have been killed this year by Abyssinian slave raiders...
...Bello, beautiful daughter of a wealthy Argentine. Their town house in Paris was the former studio of the late great Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, built on the site of an ancient convent, which Artist Boutet de Monvel has redecorated in a style which Artist Ingres would have liked to afford. Artist Boutet de Monvel lives amid beautiful women. Rich ones sit to him for their portraits, poor ones are models for the fashion plates he draws for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Gazette de Bon Ton. Always impeccably dressed in public, he is sufficiently bohemian to paint...