Word: affords
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...chest supply the illusion of the cross. It signifies a yoke. In the Eastern Church instead of being a strip, the stole is a square with a hole for the head slit in one corner. It is probably the richest of Eastern vestments and in churches that can afford the best, is ornamented with jewels and precious metals worthy of a U. S. millionaire's spouse. Mitre. The bonnet is a curious piece of evolution, being variously altered from a Greek female headdress to a gold plate, to a plain linen cap, to the present splendid crown. It symbolizes...
...reprints in TIME, however, always get attention when I am making my weekly cover-to-cover survey of your excellent paper. I believe, therefore, that they carry your message to a wider audience and afford your readers the entertainment of comparing the imitation with the original...
...Managed" by Mr. Barnum, the General repeatedly toured Europe, became famous in Manhattan as a midget man-about-town who could afford to keep his own ocean-going yacht. "Tamed" by his "dearest Lavinia," Tom Thumb settled down at Middleboro, ordered built for her the house which straightway became a local show place...
Warren, Ohio, grimy steel mill town on the muddy Mahoning River, 20 miles from Youngstown, last week went begging for enough money to buy two tires for the single fire department truck it can afford to keep available...
...They cannot perhaps afford to employ servants...