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Word: affords (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprouting in the U. S. last week. Melvin ("Mel") Traylor. drawling Chicago First National Bank president and leading organizer of Europe's B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements), said: "I believe the suspension should be longer." Echoed Banker"George M. Reynolds of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust: "We can afford to wait a year or two or even three if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Reaction to Hoover | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...student by a large degree and furthermore to enhance the unity of the college if they will take into account in their building program that about one-third of an undergraduate's time is dedicated to respite from labor. Beautiful dormitories, recitation halls, libraries, and athletic fields, while they afford a certain amount of pleasure, they do not in any way appease a certain desire in every human being to get away from things, to go where the roar of the work-a-day world can be heard no more. No matter what diversions are planned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Situation Down at Yale | 6/11/1931 | See Source »

...sound to cancel debts than reparations imposed in a time when the temper of the nations was vengeful. While a little clear thinking would show the protesting statesmen that cancellation of reparations is the first step, the opinion of these nations must be given weight. The United States can afford to give in quite freely for the sake of maintaining good felling. Such a policy has been shown by the administration on former occasions, that of General Butler in particular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOO MUCH TO PAY | 6/11/1931 | See Source »

...take place at the conclusion of the dinner period, and Manager C. W. Dreyfus '31 has succeeded in obtsining a large group of men to take part Music selected from the season's reperfence of the Club will compose the program it is expected that the Quadrangle will afford extremely faverable accuses for the singing since the sound will be bounded on all sides by brick walls, and not affected by but one wall ss is the case when the Club performs on the steps of Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB SINGS TODAY IN LOWELL QUADRANGLE | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...girl who remembers his literary ambitions, encourages him to make efforts at novel-writing in her apartment. Presently the Carters are divorced, Bart marries and goes abroad with Mildred, while Peggy supports the children by running a dress store. After ten years, celebrated and so rich that he can afford an automobile (which, by an oversight, greatly resembles the one in which Mildred took him away), Bart Carter returns. Pleased with his children, he loses his enthusiasm for Mildred. Authentic episodes-such as the one in which Peggy (Lois Wilson), when her children have gone away to school, consoles herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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