Word: cannot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...view-bordering, in fact, upon the visionary-was what Charles J. Thompson of Ohio saw in the elevation of Keynoter Fess. Bereaved backer of Senator Willis, loud admirer of President Coolidge, Mr. Thompson said of Mr. Fess: "All the rascals, high and low, will fade before his presence. They cannot help but respect him. He would make an Executive for the great Republic as wonderful and safe, as good and honest as Mr. Coolidge...
...tire] manufacturers of the United States unfortunately cannot pass on the economies which may be effected in the future through the cheaper raw material, until the stocks purchased at higher prices have been converted into goods and marketed. If there is no upswing in rubber prices by the middle of the summer, tire prices should be cheaper by that time...
...Supreme Pontiff & Vicar of Christ must not, does not and cannot lower himself sufficiently to become one of two persons who are quarreling. The truth of this statement became luminous, last week, as discussion waxed hot in Italy upon the recent and contradictory speeches of Pope Pius XI and Prime Minister Mussolini-speeches which had seemed to place them on opposite sides of a dispute as to whether the education of Italian youths shall be purely secular and Fascist, or partially religious and Roman Catholic (TIME, April 9). Round 1 of the apparent quarrel had ended when Il Duce backed...
...first phalanxes are already merging into formation. And what a fight there will be when one huge phalanx starts stepping on another phalanx's toes! Automobile v. billiard table (go out and play v. stay home and play). Apartment v. baby carriage (a baby cannot be taken for a ride on a roof). Meat v. vegetable (doctors disagree). Radio v. crossword puzzle...
Richard Henry Tawney, famed Professor of Economics at the University of London, replied to Bishop McConnell by voicing an even more damaging criticism of contemporary Christianity: "I cannot share the complacency of those who talk about all the good things we have to offer backward peoples, when we cannot point out a single country in Europe where there is a real Christian civilization operating throughout its society. . . . We are trying the impossible in offering to save the individual, yet leaving the social structure pagan. ... It is not possible for men and women to accept one standard of social ethics...