Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeling that crossed each other as each representative of the thirteen different states clamored for the specific rights of his own territory? How are the great arguments pro and con the freeing of the slaves to be expressed through the medium of sight? Obviously, such qualities as sight cannot reproduce must perforce be omitted from such a history. In science, where an exact process is performed before the camera, such a course is reasonable and commendable. Equally, when in the field of art, a picture must be reproduced to show to the many, the system works, since the visual...
...Senators, Mr. Hoover cannot play with this question in this fashion. . . . And you have no business, Mr. Hoover, to undertake to interfere with the handiwork of the Almighty...
Chinese who cannot but deplore the present political disintegration of their country, wished last week that great Yuan Shih-kai might rise as a towering cohesive force from his open tomb in Honan. So great and national was his prestige that during the last year of his life and of his Presidency (1916) a movement to proclaim him Emperor and seat him on the Dragon Throne failed by the narrowest of margins. When the Chinese Revolution broke, in 1911, Yuan Shih-kai, then Viceroy of Hunan and Hupeh, declared with prophetic vision: "Chaos will ensue. . . . For several decades there will...
...book is, of course, copiously illustrated with examples of the types discussed. Here again, though the author cannot hope to include every outstanding structure, he has shown once more his rare catholicy of taste...
...other shortcoming in his tabulation is that there are too many exceptions to permit any blanket conclusions being drawn. Most important of these exceptions seem to be the low grade men at college who had the ability to be higher grade. In these cases lower grades cannot be taken as an indications of lack of ability...