Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much better case is made against standardization as applied to the American short story, perhaps because this is more closely allied to the author's usual sphere of influence. The implications of his economic theories cannot well help being too much for the treatment afforded by the hundred or so pages allowed this section of the book, and, after all, who is to tell whether mankind is more happy working eight hours a day on a production line or tolling sixteen on the hereditary farm? True it is, as Mr. O'Brien points out, that machines are becoming the masters...
...college ago today were too young to appreciate its full meaning. Yet, the theory that those who never drank liquor could be educated not to want it has apparently been shattered, either because the education on this subject has been none too good or because the taste for liquor cannot be destroyed...
...have had an opinion on the matter but it was an opinion so contrary to widely-advertised ones that we hesitated to utter it. Investigation shows us that others believe as we do, namely, that the cough cannot always be controlled. Yet you will find dogmatic persons in robust health who insist it can be controlled. That assertion we deny with all the emphasis of ten-point ink. Some coughs are unnecessary. Others are unavoidable...
...Rogers '09, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology characterized this title and this group in a caustic speech to the members of the Liberal Club last night. "One would like liberalism if it were not for the liberals. In their ranks is a fringe of people which cannot be respected, and whose morals are often of doubtful calibre. As a type they are likely to go to extreme wrath with regard to some things, and then to have absolutely nothing to say concerning others...
...Briand, greatest statesman of the Left, the Cabinet was really the old coalition Government of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, "The Lion of Lorraine," greatest statesman of the Right, who was forced by illness to resign on the eve of the Hague Reparations Parley (TIME, Aug. 5). Left cannot lead for long where Right has led. In the Hague emergency M. Briand accepted the thankless, tightrope-walking task. Last week with the curt frankness of an aging, tired man, he told the Deputies that he knew they would soon oust him, begged them in the name of common sense...