Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cannot be too often impressed upon the American people that the progress of the war depends on materials, not on money. We must not confuse loans and taxes, which are the means, with ships and shells and guns and airplanes, which are the ends for which money is raised and appropriated. The people have been generous in the financial support of the Government; since the declaration of war over ten billion dollars has been lent, or paid in the form of taxes, to the Government. Congress has appropriated unstintingly for every object calculated to assist in the prosecution...
...recent commandeering of one million tons of Dutch shipping, we have been added materially in our transportation problem. In these days of a shortage of ships and a superfluity of U-boats, we cannot get too much tonnage...
Hundreds of thousands will be purchased; but every dollar available for purchases is needed for the sort of books that cannot be expected as gifts...
...Another new sensation is our new Harvard College President. King Log has made way for King Stork . . . . I cannot help being amused at some of the scenes we have in our medical faculty; this cool young man proposing in the calmest way to turn everything topsy-turvy, taking the reins into his hands as if he were the first man that ever...
...people tired and keyed up, have been effective in weakening their morale and increasing their desire for peace. To the English, air raids are a matter of habit, and the defences are well organized and trainee through long practice. To the Germans they are comparatively new, and they cannot yet have obtained such an efficient defence. The attacks have been delivered in the great factory region of the Rhine, where the men and women, working all day at top speed in clanging manufactories, cannot relish the noise and confusion of an air raid...