Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farms and livestock. Nary a one has a cow, nary a one has a chicken, nary a one has a pig, and nary a one has a vegetable garden. But every danged one of 'em has an automobile. I reason that no man making $2 a day can afford to run an automobile. It just can't be done on a sound economic basis...
...going to pick up a wedding party at Prides Crossing, Mass, brought idlers to the station of that socialite village north of Boston near dusk one afternoon last week. They wanted to see the throwing of rice and shoes, the shouting of good wishes at newlyweds who could afford a honeymoon in a private car. The train arrived, waited. The sun neared setting. The air cooled. At a few minutes before 8 o'clock an ambulance drove up to the rear platform of the private car. Gawpers saw a heavy-set old man on a stretcher whisked...
...business of the Government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. . . . "We seek not merely to make government a mechanical implement, but to give it the vibrant personal character that is the embodiment of human charity. We are poor indeed if this nation cannot afford to lift from every recess of American life the dread fear of the unemployed that they are not needed in the world. We cannot afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude. . . . "Governments can err-Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine...
...modern religionist has ever rivaled Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, shrewd founder of Christian Science. She repeatedly worried her remarkable work, Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures, revising it indefatigably, issuing one edition after another. Each edition differed enough from the last so that no Christian Scientist could afford to be without it. Last week when 6,000 of Mrs. Eddy's followers gathered in Boston for Mother Church's annual one-day meeting, Science & Health was clearly still the fastest-moving item on the publishing church's list of 246 books. Its latest forms...
People who can afford Hardy trout-rods and Purdy shotguns can afford books like this. In fact, 25 such persons may spend $125 each for a leather-bound autographed copy of Artist Hunt's sketch book and put it away for their grandsons to look at when buffleheads, woodcock, black-breasted plover, wild turkeys and the like are extinct. Artist Hunt is the man who makes animal stories look so attractive in fiction magazines. This volume testifies eloquently that he, like Etcher Frank Benson, has gone to nature for his learning, really knows his game. The publisher will somewhat...