Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Importation of culture can never produce the intellectual morale that is bred by the slow internal growth of an integrated department in any field of knowledge. Mr. Conant can afford the university a plethora of great names, but unless the upward trend of the curricula is such as to foster their development within the ranks of the undergraduate and graduate body, the situation admits of defeat. Great benefit is obviously derived from collected outside talent, but greater benefit would accrue from creating at least some few of the giants by from within. Aside from the patently mechanized deficiencies...
...baffling. As editor of the late lamented "Hound and Horn," Kirstein frequently published Cummings, and if he were now a publisher, he would not be among the unappreciative tradesmen who refused Cummings' present batch, perhaps because they felt that, in these days of mounting expenses, they could not afford to publish stuff sure of a small sale and equally certain to cause wonder whether a grown man can really indulge seriously in the sort of humor peculiar to Cummings. If we may believe Laura Riding and Robert Graves, however, the punctuation and spelling characteristic of Cummings are not the delirium...
...days old) are not long in finding homes. Come rich & poor alike, from every U. S. state, from many a foreign land-from South America, China, Japan, India where a missionary has adopted first one, then another. Although not demanded of any foster parent, those adopters who can afford to do so send yearly donations. A knitting school, a cafeteria for 75? lunches, a layette shop are popular socialite centres for eating and shopping for baby clothes. When news of The Cradle reached Hollywood, where most would-be mothers find little time for childbearing, Mrs. Walrath got her share...
...Grover Cleveland Loening, B. Sc., M. A., C. E., F. R. Ae. S., F. I. A. S. is at 47 a curiously youngish man to be one of aviation's pioneers. A swank, dapper socialite who still flies often and badly, he is rich, independent, honest, can well afford to tread on many a famed toe, call many a spade by its rightful name. Some typical Loening evaluations...
...first of these proposed scholarship funds will provide for the award of an annual cash prize to that student who, in the opinion of the Spanish Department, has attained the highest distinction in Spanish literature. The second will afford substantial aid to men of restricted means who are majoring in Spanish. The Club hopes to be able, in future years, to establish a scholarship for study at the University of Madrid...