Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about $1650 to $1750 a week, are served by waitresses on linen table cloths, and are tastier than those served in many restaurants. Inter-club sports are amazingly organized, with the annual trophy one of the most highly respected honors for a club to possess. Inter-club dances also afford entertainment in a town that boasts not one nightclub. Over-night accommodations for visiting girls are also arranged in the clubhouse, at charges considerably less than asked by the few available hotels...
Today, the infant art of industrial design is fast becoming as potent a sales force as advertising. Many big companies, like General Motors, General Electric and Westinghouse, have long since built up design departments of their own, but smaller companies, who cannot afford to do so, must depend exclusively on freelance specialists like Loewy...
Tories, who thought their chances would have been good in an early election, were impatient at the delay. But, said Churchill confidently, "we can certainly afford to wait...
...communication." Last week the B.I.S. had a record 580 members, including such philosophical well-wishers as George Bernard Shaw. The most active members are scientists from Britain's great research laboratories. Said one of these undauntedly: "So far, the whole [high altitude rocket] program is American. We cannot afford to sponsor direct development. But even if we have nothing but pencil and paper, we intend to keep at the problem." Space Suit. With pencil, paper and soaring imagination, Britain's rocketeers are not afraid to tackle any of the problems of space travel. On exhibition at the technical...
...Police Gazette's heyday under Publisher Richard Kyle Fox, who made a fortune in his 45 years as owner (1877-1922), the weekly magazine had a circulation of almost 500,000 and a readership in the millions. No well-appointed barbershop, saloon or Army post could afford to be without the Gazette...