Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smaller than $100, charges 2½% a month. Household openly advertises: ". . . Any licensee who makes loans of less than $100 and a certain class of loans in larger amounts is, in our opinion, entitled to and is justified in charging the maximum rate of 3½%. a month. We could not afford to make loans of less than $100 at less than...
Soon the Rinehart finances were in good shape; the Rineharts could afford to go abroad. Mrs. Rinehart could even afford such extravagances as buying "a sixteenth of a gold mine which never developed." When the War came she was sent abroad by the Literary Digest. She met notables: Foch, Queen Mary of England, King Albert of the Belgians. She went into the trenches, into No-Man's Land. She came back and wrote it up guardedly. When the U. S. went in, Dr. Rinehart and the two eldest boys enlisted; Mrs. Rinehart finally managed to be sent over...
Widener can, of course, supply any necessary books, but the House libraries are both more comfortable and more convenient. In order to prevent crowding in any House; permissions to outsiders could be granted only on application to the librarians. Such a plan would allow the libraries to afford a maximun: of usefulness without violating the general principle of reserving them for the use of members of each House...
...Such firms as the general Electric company, the Dupont company, and others can afford to give a scientist every possible comfort without even threatening him with a special task. He is not bothered with lectures and tutoring but works to his heart's content in the most theoretical fields. This is a taint of commercialism non the less: it is also a form of advertising on the part of the company, and depletes the university faculties. In this class come institutes endowed by millionaires for special advanced study, valuable as they may be to science, as they rarely hand knowledge...
Universities are created to educate. But few universities can afford to be too particular about their standards of education until they have expanded to profitable size. For this purpose they must establish a reputation and popularity among young people; no better means exists than to have successful, famed football teams for a number of years. Last week University of Notre Dame (founded 1842) which has had pre-eminent football teams for a decade, announced a new standard of scholarship: to enter, high-school students must have stood in the first scholastic two-thirds of their classes; to be graduated, Notre...