Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether there should be an Anglo-American trade agreement, for such a step between the two richest nations in the world would carry more weight than all the 15 trade agreements' so far negotiated. Question No. 2 was whether Britain can afford to make a trade agreement and become dependent on the U. S. for supplies which will be denied her by U. S. neutrality laws if an enemy attacks...
...union job. Last week Boss Boyle's only ostensible reason for darkening Chicago was to get back for his unionists the 39 days per year pay which the economizing city docked its employes in 1932. He conferred with Mayor Kelly, who publicly stormed that the city could not afford the pay restoration. At 10:40 p.m., "Umbrella Mike" was persuaded to call off his strike until this week, and Chicago moved again...
Until October, 1938, the faculty will devote itself to laying groundwork in curriculum and methods with the assistance of the government officials, as well as with the help of promising younger men already in public service who will take leave of absence to afford assistance and at the same time broaden their own training. Young men of this type will always provide a nucleus in the student body, it is planned, and a number of "in-service" fellowships will be provided each year to enable these men to attend the school...
...reviewing Katharine Cornell's performance of The Wingless Victory (TIME, Jan. 4) you summarize thus: ". . . she was perfectly at home in another of her bravura roles . . . which have led her privately to observe that an actress of her stature cannot afford to appear in a good play...
...such plays as Candida, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Romeo and Juliet, St. Joan, & others-all of them, to say the least, of it, "good" plays, wherein she has come off by no means second best. Both artistically & monetarily, as witness her production of St. Joan, she can well afford the risk...