Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to the article under Music in TIME, Oct. 7, we, as the leading artists of the San Carlo Opera take exception to the published statement: "He pays his routine singers $85 per week, thus can afford to keep his seat prices low. Even at such wages the singers sing often...
...politician can afford to tell the truth. So criticism of the President's interview may possibly miss the point, which lies not in the meaning, but in the effect, of words. While sometimes a man may arise out of the muck of politics, and pervert dirty incentives and dirty objectives and dirty lies to good ends, in this case, even the effect demands Life Buoy...
Although Harvard Hall is so indispensable to the accomodation of classes that it would be impossible to close it for alterations at the present time, the firetrap must be made at least somewhat safe at the first opportunity. Christmas vacation would afford sufficient time to do a temporary piece of reconstruction on the ancient building. This would entail widening of the corridors at the expense of the size of the classrooms, the construction of broader stairways, and an additional entrance to the building. It is a step the University should have taken long ago in the interest of general safety...
ENCOURAGED by the vast numbers of drawing room pinks and pseudo-intellectuals who devoured the pages of Strachey's first editions of "The Coming Struggle for Power", The Modern Library now brings out a new issue for a dollar so that even those who can't afford a drawing room to be pink in can now have the advantage of reading this attack on Wall Street and Main Street...
...adopted Barbara Rounsevell. Because of an old quarrel with the Colon steamship agents, resulting in the loss of two full pages of daily advertising in the Panama American, "N. R." is now bending every effort to establish an intercontinental road through Panama. The completion of this road will afford Publisher Rounsevell a great deal of pleasure, especially if it results in a loss of business to the shipping companies...