Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite set of chessmen duplicated in teakwood, and he was willing to pay the cost of the project in TIME subscriptions. We gave him the name of a college student in India who had written us that he wanted very much to subscribe to TIME but couldn't afford it. Later on we hope to hear that they made a deal...
...books as he was with making sales. He would go to any length to turn up a particular edition of Dostoevski or an out-of-print book by some obscure French humorist for someone who wanted it. And if a student needed a book that he couldn't afford, Phillips often slyly lowered the price. Once in a while, the philosopher merchant would quote a ridiculously low price on a book he was interested in just to entice a customer to read...
...Couldn't Afford...
...What's more," Metcalf said, "I don't believe that Radcliffe could ever afford to pay us the costs necessary to admit girls to Lamont without completely dismantling the Radcliffe Library. Such a situation would be impossible, anyway," Metcalf added, because Lamont is designed to accommodate "a peak Harvard load and nothing more...
Prior to joining the T.I.A.A. in 1919, faculty members received their pensions from the Carnegie Foundation, which provided pension funds for major universities in the United States in 1916, however, the Carneige Foundation found it could no longer afford the program...