Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seamy side of war is something which the army of no nation can afford to have extensively advertised. Most governments suppress all official photographs which would give their citizens a visual idea of the bloody horror of actual combat and thus build up a mass repugnance to fighting. That the U. S., for all its diplomatic efforts towards peace, is no exception to this fundamental military rule was revealed last week when George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher, tried unsuccessfully to get the War Department's permission to print some of its Signal Corps photographs other than those glorifying...
...match house. Bryant & May and Swedish were always friendly but in 1927 they united their interests in the British Empire by formation of British Match Corp. in which Swedish was given a 30% interest. Match-man Kreuger at the time was so well entrenched in India that he could afford to exclude that vast market from the Bryant & May deal. Swedish Match operates chiefly through subsidiaries. Of these the most important is International Match, a U. S. corporation which holds the bulk of Swedish Match's foreign interests and earned...
Second, as events have proved, the allotment of single and double rooms was unskilfully calculated. The rearrangements proposed at Lowell House and in Dean Hanford's statement bear witness to this. Lehman Hall has also unfortunately been troubled by the fact that many men who can afford $400 rooms prefer suites almost equally good on a higher floor, at a much lower figure...
...housing, last week pictured the "houses of the future." Previewer was John Ely Burchard 2nd, of Boston, professional investigator of new methods and materials for building. He finds "the home of the poor man ... an economic paradox," pays no attention to the home of the rich man "who can afford to remodel anything to his personal desire...
...average people give this goodness something to bite into. The life of the Stevens family along the railroad embankment showed little to brag of. Mr. Stevens was a poorly paid clerk; Dick and Mary worked out; Mrs. Stevens kept house; young Ernie kept it lively. They could afford few pleasures; they were fed up with tedious work; they took little interest in the out-side world, but-they took their holiday...