Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very serious threat to its financial security. Periodically a legislator comes forward with the suggestion that the schools and colleges of Massachusetts should no longer be exempt from taxation, and Harvard must explain the seemingly curious fact that an institution boasting an endowment of several millions of dollars cannot afford to pay a small amount to the community...
General Rodríguez is known on the border as the in & out leader of Mexico's exiguous Los Dorados ("The Gold Shirts"). Four years ago he had a few thousand followers in Mexico City who sported gold-colored jackets and Texas hats, if they could afford them, attacked small Jewish shopowners. Then they made the mistake of trying to break up a workers' parade and soon after General Rodriguez was flown to the border. On the U. S. side of the line he has gathered about him no 800,000 men but a handful of other disgruntled...
This unfortunate situation reveals two fundamental weaknesses in our American educational set up, which tend to destroy the effectiveness of our universities and lower their scholastic standings. First is that there are not enough young men in the country who can afford to pay for a college education, although there are many who have the ability. Second is that there are too many sub-marginal institutions which cannot operate at a profit, and thus are unable to keep up their scholastic requirements and standards. The result is that many institutions practically guarantee a degree to any student...
...that he was resigning effective January 31 to practice law in Washington with Corporation Lawyer Kingman Brewster and reopen his own law office in Portland. With his wife, son, a daughter, little income outside his $10,000 salary, and few political prospects, Fred Steiwer explained that he could not afford to miss "an opportunity which would not wait until the end of my term of office...
...note of warning, however, Dr. Russell pointed out that until preventive steps are taken the world over, every community is in danger of having disease brought into its midst by travellers and tourists, and can never afford to relax its vigilance...