Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promise: "If the doctor could be assured of, let us say, a minimal revenue from all the patients that he takes care of, he could well afford to permit a reduction on some percentage of his work...
...respectfully invite your attention to the very strong feeling which exists in many quarters against the Eton College Beagles. . . . We do most strongly submit that Eton boys, with all the interests of the river and the playing-fields and the chance of practically every recreation which wealth and association afford, should resolve no longer to seek pleasure in hunting timid hares to death, but if cross-country exercise is still desired, should adopt the drag hunt, as practiced for years by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge as well as by several of the military staff, and other colleges...
...Britain's own exacting terms, and when a British victory would be a third successive one, bringing permanent ownership of the trophy. Scot MacDonald professed himself "personally ... as keen about this contest as any man living," but repeated the Government's three objections: 1) it could not afford $400,000;* 2) competition between governments was distasteful; 3) participation fomented jealousies among Royal Air Force pilots. Moreover, he revealed, he had tried for 18-months to convince the Royal Aero Club that the Government would give it no help this year. It was the Royal Aero Club...
...manner of pressure was directed upon the Prime Minister last week. Lady Houston, who inherited $35,000,000 from the late shipowning Sir Robert Houston, offered "to prevent the Socialist Government from being spoilsports" by paying the Schneider expenses beyond what the Government itself could afford. A deputation headed by Sir Philip Sassoon, chairman of the Royal Aero Club, and Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson visited the Prime Minister. From their meetings Mr. MacDonald emerged with a change of mind. The Government would loan R. A. F. pilots for racing and planes for training, but no money. The Royal Aero...
Along with the increase of travelling scholarships, has been a lowering of steamship rates by the creation of "student third." To many who cannot afford to give over an entire year, the opportunity of attending summer courses in European universities should prove increasingly welcome. It is regrettable, however, that such places as Harvard do not give greater course credit for work done in this way, in order to encourage study abroad. For the Language Departments especially, this would appear exceedingly worth while...