Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal Law. There are many U. S. children whose parents could afford to pay rich ransom for their return were they kidnapped. But no kidnappee in the land could arouse so much public indignation against the kidnapping racket as Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Music managers regard the cut in fees as a healthy sign. In the past artists have often spoiled all chances for profitable tours by demanding exorbitant fees. Few local managers could afford to present Basso Feodor Chaliapin or Violinist Jascha Heifetz three years ago. They drew big crowds but after fees of $4,000 and $5,000 were paid, the cost of the hall and advertising taken out, there was often little or nothing left for the manager. Heifetz and Chaliapin will play now for much less money, get more engagements...
...country from its deliberations. These serve again to remind our people that, however the national economy may vary or whatever fiscal adjustments may need to be made, the very first obligation upon the national resources is the undiminished financial support of the public schools. We cannot afford to lose any ground in education. That is neither economy nor good government...
...Wednesday night to write in details concerning size, shape, color, tail, duration of light, and accompanying noise. The notice even evoked a letter from Los Angeles describing an astral visitor, but since meteors are never visible until within 100 miles of the earth when there is sufficient atmosphere to afford combustion and the curvature of the earth is approximately seven inches for every mile, the meteor could not have been the one that P. M. Millman 2G, graduate student of Astronomy descerned low on the horizon...
...University may claim, and with sufficient theoretical justification, that it is not its responsibility to provide subsistence for students who cannot afford the "luxury" of a Harvard education. But when the choice must be made between a less elegant dining-room service and the loss of a great number of able students, there can be no doubt as to which alternative should be taken...