Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, the choice is clear-cut. In these times of uncertainty America cannot afford to have a President who is temperamentally unsuited to the task of keeping the nation out of war. Roosevelt is often praised because he is especially sensitive to public opinion. Yet the past few years have shown that public opinion is the most variable of elements, and a weathervane for President is the surest guarantee of disaster. It has been said that Roosevelt's policy is laudable. It should be examined. He partially sponsored, and then wrecked, the London Economic Conference. The administration's silver policy...
...advisability of this plan is obvious when the financial and personal problems of the College are analyzed. Harvard cannot afford to hire more tutors, and unless this is done the present tutors will continue to be grossly over-worked and underpaid. The solution, obviously, is to cut the number of men being tutored...
...Joseph Maloney of Wilkes-Barre was fired from his WPA job for refusing to register Democratic last month. ¶ Earl T. Musselman of Harrisburg was ordered to buy a $5 Jackson-Day-Dinner ticket, paid $1 in advance but protested he could not afford the balance, lost his WPA job two months later. ¶O'Neill C. Cook of Tionesta appeared at his WPA project wearing a Landon sunflower button, shortly lost his job. ¶Mary Caroline Shearer of Indiana was ordered to contribute $27 to the Democratic County Committee on pain of being barred from future WPA work...
...existence of a sound and adequate capital structure underlies and conditions a railroad's prosperity. To be sound, a financial structure must hold fixed charges to a figure which clearly should be earned in times of depression. To be adequate, it must afford means of securing new capital whenever needed, in whatever amounts required, on advantageous terms...
Every Sophomore class knows that in its Senior year there may not be any official soccer team, because Harvard may no longer be able to afford it. And for this reason it becomes a point of honor not to let the team down, not to let Jack Carr down, and not to let the H. A. A. down. For it was only very recently that the H. A. A. went to bat to save soccer from the axe of University Hall...