Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baby can't afford new shoes...
...issue British coal mines shape up into the question: How long can His Majesty's Government afford to let British mine owners run their business as their fathers ran it on a basis now so antiquated and uncoordinated that the Department of Mines has for years been urging its reorganization along modern lines...
...debt the Republic owes U. S. bondholders. Meanwhile his Minister to the U. S., Rafael Brache, was doing the preliminary spadework with the U. S. State Department. Inasmuch as Trujillo's position depends on steady pay for his oversized army of 2,700, he obviously cannot afford fully to amortize the debt...
...importance to the public weal of increased support for endowed institutions of learning. Among the finest of our free institutions, and most resistive to political domination are our privately supported colleges and universities. In them the free play of thought finds its most favorable environment. Because they can afford to entertain conflicting viewpoints soberly and objectively, their tendency is towards social balance and orderly growth. In addition to motive power, they provide in a politically confused society a balance wheel which no state controlled institution can supply...
Perhaps this philosophy has something in it for those who can afford a few years of mere ripening in an intellectual environment. Undoubtedly our sort of education outshines the Anioch kind when it comes to producing Professors and Literary people...