Word: afford
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...room is sadly deficient. It is probably the belief of the managers that this class of reading loses its interest long before there is need of artificial light upon it; but the majority of those who visit the reading-room in the earlier part of the day can afford to spend but a few moments before attending to their morning recitations; so that, if what they wish to read happens to be in the possession of some one else, they will prefer to wait till evening when there will be every probability of their being able to secure it, rather...