Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further consolidations feasible." At first thought this may seem preposterous to alumni who have sentimental attachment to their own particular club. But these alumni try to kept sentiment out of business. Might it not be worthwhile to look reasonably at such a possibility." Although enrollment is restricted, the clubs cannot stand still. The competition is there and the pace is stiff. The underlying spirit of loyalty to the cub system is all right, but there is no special sanctity attached to the form. The clubs might well abandon their defensive attitude and give thougt to the course of future development...
Union President Curtis said men were dying of silicosis at the rate of one a week. Seventy-five examinations revealed 75 pairs of lungs that cannot last five years. An effort is being made to examine each of the 1,500 subway workers of Manhattan, but the men are afraid. Silicosis is not on the list of Industrial Diseases; men found to be suffering from it would probably lose their jobs; would receive no compensation...
When a quizzical child pops a question which Teacher cannot answer, Teacher may frankly admit ignorance and, helpfully, find an answer. Or, if Teacher is lazy, or cunning, or suspicious of the pupil's motive, or enthusiastic about youthful initiative, he may say: "You find out and tell...
...have been very fortunate in being the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Behr, in coming under the influence of excellent teachers, in having been initiated into the Phi Sigma Delta fraternity . . . and of attending a college with a campus so beautiful in its natural simplicity that one cannot help but feel the hand...
...poor Janey has found in him a worthy object of long delayed grande passion, and after a week of endearing herself to his tribe she persuades her handsome bandit that he too cares terribly, terribly much. But marriage?-ah, he cannot allow her to share the dangers of his hunted existence...