Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large number of people feel . . . that those who have the money to pay for such [alcoholic] beverages and have them analyzed can drink without risk of health, while those who cannot do so must either do without them or take great risks of being poisoned. It is for this reason that the great mass of our workmen and poor people feel that Prohibition does not prohibit, but is a scheme to deny them something. . . . Is it any wonder they should rebel...
...moisture of the nasal passages. Sharp-edged, insoluble, they penetrate the lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with the tough fibrous growth, the chest becomes rigid, cannot expand; breathing becomes difficult; tubercle baccilli find a rich, fertile breeding ground; the rock driller dies of silicosis, tuberculosis, or both...
...advocated that it would be beneficial to Harvard and to science, for the University authorities to consider the establishment of a Division of Aerography, "separate and distinct from Geography, Geology or Physics. This would place Harvard in a commanding position in a new field of applied science. While we cannot hope to produce aeronautical engineers or even pilots, undergraduates as well as graduates would receive knowledge of the fundamental operations of that most important operative factor in man's environment, the weather. We walk on the earth, and have done so in all past ages; but we also walk...
...awareness of the discrepancy between these well defined groups of students, separated here only by the loose candidature for distinction thus steadily grows, official recognition of the gap cannot be too distant an eventuality. The complete reservation of the Reading Period and the Tutorial System for the students who elect honors and retain their position with honor grades, may or may not be possible and desirable. But with the experiments with the Junior college, with classification of entrants, with such a pronouncement as that of the Yale council, acceptance of the obvious, in short., that freedom is stimulation and opportunity...
...courses from which the average man will be able to select those which appeal to him, within certain bounds prescribed by the requirements for degree. Four years, Yale believes, is a scant period in which to introduce a man to the field of learning and two years of it cannot safely be expended in allowing him to concentrate at the expense of his attainment of the highly desirable liberal education. --Yale News...