Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Certain men will be organized into special groups to report at Hemenway Gymnasium and Soldiers Field for definite forms of activity. There will also be a swimming test and instructions for those who cannot swim...
...changed. New means of transportation has greatly decreased, whether we willed it or not, that isolation of this nation which Washington urged. By our entrance into the World War, we gave up formally our position apart from the affairs of the world. We are in them now; we cannot withdraw. The progress of science and the development of a humanitarian feeling for the rest of mankind has placed us irrevocably on the side of world politics...
...accused of a crime to a fair trial before an established court. It brutalizes the communities which suffer it by breeding a spirit of lawlessness and cruelty in those young people who constantly witness barbarities unpunished and uncondensed. It blots our fair fame as a nation, for we cannot claim to be civilized until our laws are respected and enforced and our citizens secured against the hideous cruelties of which we are constantly furnishing fresh examples...
...truth of the matter is that a great portion of our population is in actual want of food. These Army stores, placed, in every city, are temporarily relieving a fraction of the poverty-stricken. But huge as these reservoirs seem to be, the supplies cannot last forever. More manufactured articles are needed. A year ago the slogan was "more conservation"; today it should be "more production...
...When it is remembered that there have only been 15 or 16 'novae' discovered in all, the importance of the two additional ones cannot be overemphasized...