Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Again I cannot refrain from enlightening Louisville Lou that, aside from the eminence of the owners of the "funny pictures" which it had been his "thought to discontinue looking at," they are faces generally acknowledged to be extremely strong and handsome...
...central fact militating against Candidate Hoover is that many people cannot understand what he stands for. He is no forthright protagonist of an ideal or program. He puts forth no clear-cut political or social theory except a quiet "individualism," which leaves most individuals groping. Material wellbeing, comfort, order, efficiency in government and economy-these he stands for, but they are conditions, not ends. A technologist, he does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell...
...Investigations. Eight investigations to fix the blame for the disaster were under way last week, by state, county and city authorities. Mayor George E. Cryer of Los Angeles said: "Los Angeles cannot restore the lives lost, but the damages should be paid. . . . We of Los Angeles must face the responsibility." Fruit growers and ranchers, bitter, agreed with the mayor...
...found him most assured; a bit flamboyant and boastful and with a tendency to exaggerate his successes. However, he is exceedingly astute, knows the country well, and, with luck breaking even, can remain in the field indefinitely. By keeping the mountainous country north and east at his back, he cannot be cut off by 2,500 marines or 5,000; and he can shuttle back and forth . . . across Nicaragua, enjoying a fairly adequate food supply, tapping rich agricultural sectors, and passing rapidly from point to point; whereas the American troops, to cover this same region, and maintain intact their line...
...first place let it be understood that the current number of the Advocate is preeminently an average issue, which means that it cannot rival the best productions of Harvard literary genius of the past, but that its material, on the other hand, must in nowise be considered as below the usual standard of Advocate endeavor. And an issue of whatever nature, conceived and produced during the drab weeks when winter has gone and spring has not yet appeared, may be considered of no ordinary merit if it lives up to even the usual standard...