Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shoemaker Melville can afford to help the industry out. With his warehouses full of leather, the price increase should give him a nice inventory profit. Price boosts may work quite satisfactorily until they begin to set consumption back to the 1929 level...
Reilly. Meanwhile, the 220,000 Dutchmen in the East Indies live the life of Reilly. No white man is so poor he cannot afford at least two servants at salaries ranging around $8 a month, and the usual staff of a well-to-do household numbers six or seven. No white woman need lift her little finger around the house. U. S. films now arrive in Java, Sumatra and Borneo with little delay, and few are the Dutch Colonials who do not own a U. S.-made car. Tinned foods from home are always available, but the most famous East...
Residence and tuition charges amounting to $1,700 a year might be a good reason for Joan's attention to business, but most of the girls are well-off, although there are 33 scholarships, ranging from $100 to $1,000. Generally the girls can afford to be sloppy in sweater & skirt, rumpled polo coat and smudged saddle shoes, as Joan is, but they can also afford expensive outfits. Sarah Lawrence has climbed high in women's education, has earned the reputation of being among the best of women's progressive colleges.* It also has the reputation, which...
Gardner reports that the Japanese "can hardly afford to remain long under present conditions, but withdrawal is difficult without serious loss of prestige...
With building costs flexible up but not down, material-makers have priced themselves out of the market. More than half the U. S. citizenry cannot afford a home costing more than $4,000-last year only 15% of all homes built were in that price range, and that figure was attained only through substantial Government aid-Federal, State, municipal...