Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President said: "For the fiscal year 1932 the favorable margin between our estimated receipts and estimated expenditures is small. . . . This is not a time when we can afford to embark upon any new or enlarged ventures of government. . . . [but] in the absence of further legislation imposing any considerable burden upon our 1932 finances we can close that year with a balanced budget...
...School (Concord, N. H.) in his annual report last week: "Let a father ask his boy: 'Do you want to invest four years of your life while I invest $10,000 of family money in this venture?' " Let them not assume that "a boy whose father can afford it should go to college regardless of profiting thereby...
...text; it is a superpicturebook. Random House, makers of limited edi tions, have put out a bargain in their unlimited edition of Moby Dick. With 275 Kent drawings, small, well-designed pages, good paper, fine printing (Lakeside Press), it is a revelation of what a publisher can afford to produce with a book- club membership to safeguard his sales...
...know. . . . The important thing is that John Marin has got to live. The butcher has got to be paid. The record price for a Marin last year was $6,500. On the other hand I let a working girl have one, a good one too, who could only afford $100. I want to know who the buyer is, what he can afford to pay and where he lives, for the home a picture is going to is important. You know if I put a label, '50 ?' on this picture, John D. Rockefeller would never offer...
Rather a far cry from the cadences of Paderewski is the lecture on the present situation in Soviet Russia at the Cambridge Club tonight, but Professor Sorokin, the speaker, is one of the Vagabond's latest enthusiasms and he cannot afford to miss this opportunity to hear first hand and authoritative information on the Professor's native country...