Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public to fly is to design a combination automobile and autogiro (see above). Another way is to build standard airplanes so inexpensively that the public can afford them. Because this necessitates mass production methods such as many automobile makers already have, they have considered going into the business of making "flivver planes." Last week such a flivver plane was sold. It was not made by an automobile manufacturer, but it was powered by a standard mass-produced automobile engine-the Ford...
...feel that they can subscribe additional money, their contributions will be very gratefully received. If there are any people who have not subscribed any money as yet, they are asked to send as much as they can afford...
This is a new departure amplifying and extending the work of the Social Service Committee. Small groups will study and discuss various aspects of these problems under the direction of members of the Massachusetts State Civil Service. Investigations into prison conditions and participation in reform work will afford practical application of information acquired in conference...
Posteards will be soul to all Freshmen having signified an interest in Brooks House work giving appointments when they may consult the various committee chairmen to discover where their particular interests and abilities lie. During the next two weeks, a series of nightly trips will afford an opportunity to visit Boston settlement houses...
...There is strong reason to believe that the findings of biochemistry and medicine will afford conclusive evidence that freshness in food is of paramount importance to a nation, so that there will be a national outcry both for the absolute maximum of home production and for production of vegetables contiguous to great cities...