Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot see why you are putting in so much stuff about the Jews. We all know that they are a noble race; we are told so in the daily papers constantly. But that is no reason-au contraire, I should think-for turning TIME into a Menorah Journal...
Tariff. "We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff as a fundamental and essential principle of the economic life of this nation. . . . We realize that there are certain industries which cannot now successfully compete with foreign producers because of lower foreign wages and a lower cost of living abroad, and we pledge the next Republican Congress to an examination and where necessary a revision [upward], of these schedules...
Said Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, who regularly outsmarts Government lawyers: "Justice has been done. . . . It is time the Walshes, Nyes and Norrises should learn that prosecutions of this kind cannot prevail...
...refreshing to hear those two words put together--Harvard democracy--and it is a pity that they cannot be applied until after a man is dead. We hear much of Harvard indifference; we even hear, when we are away from Cambridge, of Harvard snobbishness; but we hear little of Harvard democracy. The beauty of Harvard indifference is that it is not indifference at all, but intense individualism. The curse of it is that it is intolerant individualism. Individualism at its best can be evidence of highly developed democracy; but in Harvard individualism there is little democratic feeling. By democratic feeling...
...standard of examination for the college, how is a man to discover for years whether or not he has passed the examinations admitting him to the ultimate institution? And even then, how shall he know whether it be because of his college career, or in spite of it? We cannot help feeling, as time goes on, that the influence and the significance of college are beginning to slip a bit. Things are too ill-defined...