Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bothering you again, but when I come upon such a magnificent thing as I just have, I must inform you. The following is copied from an In Memoriam in the Detroit Free Press of March 15, 1928. I cannot send you the actual notice for it is securely pasted in my notebook; but I will swear for its authenticity...
...result, last week, Secretary of State Kellogg, Mexican Ambassador Don Manuel C. Tellez and Governor Fuller received copies of a letter to Governor Fuller from Senor R. G. Dommguez, Mexican Consul at Boston. ". . . An offensive phrase against the Mexicans," protested Consul Dommguez. cannot let this phrase go unheeded. . . . I duly protest before your Excellency for the harmful offense hurled by your above-mentioned employee...
Another contradiction: 1) "In Russia . . . where are the rich? There are none. And where the groveling, feverish poor? Gone also. . . . You cannot feel want here any more than you can feel material luxury, they are not," but 2) "Prices of everything were outrageously high, salaries could not compare with what things cost and there was never enough of anything, neither food nor entertainment, nor what you would...
...Shooting the chutes, riding on the scenic railway and going to the daisy-doser in the amusement park supply the necessary prods to children. The modern newspaper performs this function for the adult of higher mental level. . . . We cannot possibly attend all the murders, fires, earthquakes, unsuccessful trans-atlantic flights and other occurrences of the kind in person. The modern newspaper does this for us and thus saves our consciousness from 'innocuous desuetude...
Whether the ultimate remedy for the existing situation lies in tacking a stiff language clause on to the divisionals, or in going to the other extreme and carrying the test of linguistic ability back into the secondary schools cannot now be determined. There are two definite steps, however, which the CRIMSON would like to offer for immediate consideration. In the first place cut the requirement down from two languages to one and raise the standards in that one to a point which would insure more than a superficial knowledge of it. Secondly, in all elementary courses advisable give assignments requiring...