Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johns Hopkins and all the other great cancer clinics have made: if a doctor is uncertain of an X-ray diagnosis, he may mail the photograph to the clinic. Experts will report the reading to him and not make a charge unless the doctor says that his patient can afford...
...library, but, since all alike will receive this treatment, it must be taken with a spirit of cooperation. There were numerous complaints from members of large courses when books were missing from the shelves last year; this very group, comprising the majority of the men in college, can scarcely afford to object to what seems to be the only means of keeping the shelves intact...
...should like to interest more young men in politics, not necessarily the quest for public office, for most young men can ill afford to make this sacrifice, but politics in its more accurate sense, meaning the science and problems of government. At least I hope that you will not fall into the error, unfortunately all too prevalent among people otherwise intelligent, of regarding all men who are in politics with suspicion. As in all other occupations, there are good, bad and in-different men in public life, and the calibre of the representative depends to a large extent upon...
...development of Harvard can never be forced on an alert and thinking student body. "The House Plan" is as yet just a name. What it will be in fact depends upon the college itself, and most of all on the incoming Freshman classes. The class of 1934 can ill afford to disregard this responsibility which is placed so squarely on its shoulders...
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, who operates a dairy farm at his home in Lynchburg, Va., gave his reasons for selling 60 purebred milch cows: "I just can't afford to buy feed for the winter. If I did I would run behind about $25,000. With no hay available in Virginia and the prices so high due to the $5-a-ton tariff rate imposed by the last tariff bill, I'm forced to sell. I suppose that some of my cows will just go to the butcher shop...