Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consequences even more far-reaching, politically as well as economically, than the codes for basic coal, cotton, oil, steel, motors, lumber, leather, wool. It touched 1,000,000 stores, 5,000,000 employes and $30,000,000,000 of yearly trade by each & every U. S. citizen who can afford to buy so much as a pin. Upon it depended the Cost of Living...
...cares to do for Harvard's adolescents, we certainly hope that Comptroller Endicott will find some place where these underprivileged youths may park their cars overnight, without fear of molestation by Cambridge's unthinking police force. To argue that a boy shouldn't have a car unless he can afford to hire a place to keep it is plainly ridiculous. He needs it in his studies, his athletics, and in the development of--shall we say?--the social graces. The idea that he should be treated like any other citizen is opposed to all the principles of American education. Like...
...coats of inexpensive paint. The only conceivable argument for neglecting this work is the claim that increasing the resonance would injure the speaking acoustics. This objection is no longer valid, since Dean Sperry has admitted that the speaker now has an excessive advantage, most of which he could well afford to lose. There remains no plausible reason why the wall area should not be done over at once, even if the ceiling must be left until Christmas vacation...
...justice of the supreme court but left that tribunal to become an attorney for The Atchison Topeka &, Santa Fe Railway Company. He never was attorney-general. I was attorney-general and then went on the supreme court. Mrs. Smith and I do possess three boys but we never could afford any cats...
...Eisenstein to Mexico where he had in mind an ambitious work to interpret the history, character and appearance of the Mexican people. When Eisenstein finished shooting his Que Viva Mexico! he sent it to Upton Sinclair, went back to Russia. U. S. directors, working with high-salaried actors, cannot afford to use much more film than they plan to have in the finished picture. Russian directors, particularly Eisenstein, are much more likely to choose casts of completely untrained actors, like the Mexican peons whom Eisenstein hired at laborers' pay. They can then afford to use film extravagantly. Assembling...