Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afford to be brief, as the preparatory committee will offer its plans tonight on a large scale to the students of Harvard. Wolfgang Magnus...
Advisory boards have always been peculiarly unsuccessful in their relations to American business. The adventures of the Departments of the Interior and of Agriculture in protecting the public lands afford a memorable example of this. The Interstate Commerce Commission was also unsuccessful in its attempts at regulation until Roosevelt gave it the power to enforce its regulations. The moral fibre of the American people seems hardly strong enough to prevent mulcting the public a la Jay Gould without drastic regulation. But the later effectiveness of the Interstate Commerce Commission points the way to a practical control of American economy...
...sport store, asked to see some shotguns. The clerk showed him one and then went down to the basement. Charles Smith put a shell in the gun, blew his own head off. A note in his pocket said: "Thanks a lot for the gun. I couldn't afford...
...professions, probably, the one to which hearty discussion and strong esprit are most necessary is law. And although the Medical and Business Schools have been provided with every facility to encourage group spirit through intimate contact between colleagues, there has been no effort to afford the Law School similar advantages. Conditions have, in fact, long been cogent, and the complete enjoyment of relationships natural within the profession have been impossible. But signs now indicate that the Law School is finally receiving its due consideration. Although the present action is forwarded and encouraging, it can, because of the enormity...
...stop of transforming the entire institution into a graduate school at the present time were it not for the McKay bequest with its provision that the "instruction provided be kept accessible to students who have had not other opportunities of previous education than those which the free public schools afford". In order to conform to the will undergraduates must obviously be admitted. The school, moreover, derives the greater part of its income from this bequest which, when it is entirely in University hands (ca. 1956), will amount to about twenty-three million dollars...