Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer afford the luxury of 20 year lags. You will find no justification in any of the language of the Constitution for delay in the reforms which the mass of the American people demand. . . . I ask that the American people rejoice in the wisdom of their Constitution. ... I ask that they give their fealty to the Constitution itself and not to its misinterpreters. . . . For us, the Constitution is a common bond, without bitterness, for those who see America as Lincoln saw it-the last, best hope of earth.' So we revere it, not because it is old but because...
...state they paste a poster on your windshield which claims that the license plates identify the behavior of the driver. Similarly, it should be help in mind that where your feet trod is a reflection of your conduct. In college or in life one cannot afford to be thoughtless in any sense of the word. In New York's Washington Square--where the Fifth Avenue busses route and non-descripts fill the benches, there is a sign on the grass with an imaginative, although true message. It runs something like this...
...reports are published after careful and occasionally expensive investigations. The contribution of the student may therefore result, indirectly, in a report which will influence the educational or even the athletic policy of the college. The Council therefore urges that each student contribute as much as he feels he can afford, and promises that to the limits of its ability the money will be well spent...
...luxury of a bad temper, indulged in regularly by conductors of great orchestras in. the winter, is something which most second-string, summertime maestros cannot afford. An exception is dark little José Iturbi, explosive Spanish conductor-pianist. Last summer Iturbi had one tantrum in Cleveland because his audiences munched hot dogs, another in Philadelphia because photographers' flashbulbs annoyed him (TIME, Sept. 7). In Philadelphia again this summer as leader of the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Iturbi waited until last week, an exceptionally hot one in the breezeless park, to go into his annual...
...street the name Cord means a low-slung automobile, rare and swank, which is entirely too expensive for him to own. To that class which can afford the car, the name means a profane, bespectacled young capitalist whose life has been a garage mechanic's dream. Errett Lobban Cord got his start in Los Angeles building "racing" bodies for junked Fords. He drove in dirt track races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn...