Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game would be a possibility but for one fact. Yale is far superior in kicking. This means a great deal, for the game may be largely a kicking one. Brewer is by no means the poor punter he has been considered for the past month, but he cannot punt as Butterworth does. Moreover, there is nobody on the Harvard team who can be relied upon to kick a goal from the field, while Butterworth is the most skillful drop kicker on any team today. Even he, however, rarely does better than one goal in three, so that...
...unadvised. Modern art where it treats life demands realism and we contend that realism only ceases to be real art when the emotion it excites are such as we afterwards regret as having relaxed our moral fibre. Judging "Kid" in this most serious way we cannot find that any one's imagination would receive injury from its perusal...
Again, realism ceases to be art when it acts so strongly on our nerves that we cannot dismiss its images at pleasure...
...replying to this second charge we cannot find the details of our unvarnished sketch so "disgusting" that they try our powers of aesthetic endurance beyond the limits of legitimate literary enjoyment...
Woods, on end, plays a good, hard, conscientious game. He, however, is slow in getting down on the ball, and sometimes lets a play go outside him. He cannot keep off side...