Word: afford
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...clubs, to take action in regard to this and other matters of general interest. It would be well if the meeting were held at an early date, in order that everything may be settled before the training for the Spring Races is begun. Such a meeting would also afford a favorable opportunity for a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed change from the club to the class system of races...
...that you ought to be, and to be known as, a man of taste. A rich fellow who believes that money alone is enough to carry him anywhere, and who lives up to his belief, does not occupy an enviable position. He is treated civilly, for hardly anybody can afford to cut him, but the whole world laughs at him behind his back. Now I don't happen to know your friend Smith, but from your account of him I strongly suspect that he is a brother of my old classmate, of whom you have often heard me speak...
There being no other State from which more than a dozen students have come to College, we cannot afford space to enlarge our list. If our readers desire further information, we shall be very glad to answer any questions they may ask us by letter or otherwise...
...present state of mind, I intend to set the staircase and shoes to work as soon as I can afford it; I sincerely hope that all my friends who are rich enough will do the same; and I shall positively decline, after the publication of this article, to visit any of my enemies on any pretext whatever...
would be of interest to the learned world, and it is to be hoped that the contributor will soon afford it. This same gentleman, growing very eloquent over his subject, remarks that "one might infer, from the absence of an elective in historical German, that there was no literature worthy of study anterior to the eighteenth century"; a statement which seems to show that he supposes that the average man, whom I suppose to be designated by the word "one," is ignorant of the existence, not only of the classics of ancient and mediaeval Europe, but also of the Bible...