Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Koltsov notwithstanding, most Russian women, except frumpy Red careerists, have remained coquettes, have scrambled for all the silk stockings, rouge and face powder they could afford...
...another quality beside inherent aptitude that most colleges (even the progressive ones;) desire of their applicants: that is, through preparation. Reactionary though it may sound in this day of experimentation, the ability to assimilate facts, acquire pure knowledge, is still very much in demand. Perhaps the University can afford to experiment judiciously with exempting high-stand scholars of accredited schools from examinations, but for Thomas, Richard, and Henry, there must still be a check...
...preparatory school is arranged with the goal of College Board Examinations in view. The blighting influence of this goal atrophies all attempts to introduce training beyond the strict limits of requirements. When the competence of a teacher is judged by his pupils' success in the examinations, he can hardly afford to squander time on material not included in the College Board syllabus. Thus, instead of education, the whole apparatus of cramming flourishes. Instructors find outlines of the questions in their subject for the past ten, fifteen, or twenty-five years more useful than treatises on the subject itself...
...Deal's teamwork certainly was not clicking. The team's captain could not afford to let the impression get abroad, least of all at a time when he was trying to get U. S. businessmen in the bleachers rooting for his side. Messrs. Ickes and Moffett were summoned to the White House and a three-way telephone connection was put through to Warm Springs. After a few minutes Messrs. Ickes and Moffett stomped out of the White House. Three-quarters of an hour later the President's second assistant secretary, Stephen T. Early, issued a statement signed...
...Fingerprints," urged the Leader, "are a protection to the family against kidnappers and fakes. . . . Fingerprints are more and more being used by the great insurance companies and banks of the country. Fingerprints afford definite means of identity to those who may meet with accidents or death. . . . Modern speed of living is resulting in increase of amnesia-loss of memory. Fingerprints would afford immediate identification...