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Word: affords (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book that can be tossed aside. The problems raised are vital. Those of us who would hesitate to set up a Communist regime must find another solution, for few will disagree with Mr. Hicks that "there is a great deal in America that no decent person can afford to like...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...year-old saga into the perspective of a single connected story. Robin Hood 1938 makes the last of Richard I's crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that should bring a nod from every liberty-loving Britisher who can afford the admission price after his 27½% income tax is paid. In the course of his swashbuckling defense of human rights. Robin saves Much, the Miller's son (Herbert Mundin). from a poaching charge; fights his way out of bristling Nottingham castle; gets poll-thwacked off a foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Sculptor Schlag won the $1,000 sooner, it might have saved the life of his 28-year-old bride of less than a year, who died of pneumonia in March after 22 weeks' illness. Schlag, who could not afford to send her to a hospital, designed the Jefferson nickel in such time as he could spare from nursing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Valuable Nickel | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...thought of preaching on a text but I won't. I will only give you the text and I won't preach on it. I think I can afford to give you the text because it so happens -through no fault of my own-that I am descended from a number of people who came over on the Mayflower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Continental Congress | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Among those who had taken no part in extra-curricular life, 90 wished they had as against 51 who are glad they didn't. The chief reason given for non-participation was that they could not afford time from their studies. Dean's List men, scholarship holders and science concentrators all had about the same fraction who checked this reason. "Because I was too lazy to get started" got almost as many votes, and Lab, work was specifically named by seven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Shows 85 Percent Indulge In Extra-Curricular Activities | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

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