Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift, which will make it possible for representatives of sixty different nations to study law at Cambridge, is only another example of the conviction held by many prominent people that the opportunities presented by the Harvard Law School cannot be duplicated anywhere in this country, and possibly not abroad. The large number of foreign students at the school today amply reflects the importance which is attached to the school in other countries, and the Pugsley gift will materially help to spread its reputation further...
...average American, like the average Canadian and Australian, lives in the past, and he cannot resist a feeling, which in truth he rather cherishes as a grievance, that English men of that type, however much they may try to conceal it, regard themselves as members of an exclusive caste, socially superior to any one they can meet in any of the newer countries...
Distinction: "To me the most important distinction between American and British women is the practice many American married women have of working outside their homes. ... In the United States the viewpoint seems to be: 'I'll go out and earn some money if my husband and I cannot afford to employ a cook without my adding to our income with my earnings.' In Great Britain the girl whose husband is only moderately well off would say: I shall go and have a few cooking lessons so that we need not employ a cook...
...United States," he cried, "the only place where you cannot expect to find booze is in a church basement...
...Machines" fails to settle most of the questions which it raises, it does serve as a racy presentation of problems which demand the attention of intelligent modern men. The author's racy style cuts sharply into one's mind and the very incisiveness with which his opinions are expressed cannot help stimulating reaction of some sort on the part of his readers. As stated in the preface, that is the real purpose of the book, and throughout its pages are scattered exhortations to the reader to disagree if he likes but to do some sort of thinking anyway. But there...