Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons for this. The first is that the Japanese, by seizing Shanghai and other Chinese cities, have in effect blockaded China. Consequently the Chinese can get no munitions nor other help from abroad, while the Japanese can do so to an extent depending on how much they can afford to spend for them. The second reason is that the United States is one of the powers involved in the government of the International settlement in Shanghai. The Japanese are making it a base for operations against the Chinese. To maintain strict neutrality we must prevent their doing this, and that...
...committee added last week a few polite words: "The short term creditors have done all that is possible to insure that the next twelve months will afford Germany a period of recuperation. . . . The present extreme crisis must bring home to all peoples of the world the fact that all the countries grow poor together. The inverse is just as true; all countries grow rich together. A lightening of burdens and a greater freedom of trade enriching one country will enrich...
Like many another British nobleman hard pressed by taxes and unable to rent his estate, the Earl of Lytton closed his turreted Tudor castle at Knebworth, Hertfordshire. Said he: "For years I have been trying to let it in vain. I cannot afford to live in it longer. It is, of course, a grief to leave our ancestral home in this way, but there is no alternative. They are all going...
...Laboratories, completed last fall at a cost of two millions of dollars, are designed for research purposes and afford scientifically arranged quarters for the three Departments of Physiology, Zoology, and Botany. Located on Divinity Avenue, they are distinguished in that they contain a most elaborate array of laboratory equipment, including greenhouses, soundproof and constant temperature rooms. The founding of the laboratories was made possible through a gift from the Rockefeller Foundation, aided from funds supplied by the Harvard Corporation...
...Spanish revolution is to be successful the state must establish its authority independent of that of the Church. It was inevitable that the Jesuits would come in for a share of the attack. They have maintained a power in Spain which the state could not afford to allow them. They have controlled much of the country's land, necessary to the development of the state and private enterprise, and have exercised a great influence in the nation through their far flung system of schools. In addition to whatever interference in political affairs can be traced to the Society, their position...