Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible for anyone attending the Madison Square Show to fail to observe the magnificent setting; almost faultless management; unprecedented attendance; the wonderful collection of highly bred, superbly conditioned and groomed animals enthusiastically handled, in many instances, by some of America's most representative men and women who cannot be fittingly termed "haggard, dirty or inarticulate...
...fertilizer processes are too costly. In the House, contrarily, a committee was discussing a bill to lease Muscle Shoals to the American Cyanamid Co. Senator Norris attacked this bill from afar, warning that it was but a maneuver to put Muscle Shoals in the hands of power pirates. "You cannot make fertilizer cheap by passing a law and saying that fertilizer shall be cheap," cried Senator Norris...
Chairman Butler telegraphed that he had never received any of Sinclair's Liberty bonds from Mr. Hays. At the same time, Senator Borah published a letter that he had just written to Chairman Butler: ". . . The Republican party received large sums . . . from Mr. Sinclair, which the Republican party cannot in honor and decency keep. . . . The whole transaction . . . had in view an ulterior and sinister purpose. . . . I feel that this money should be returned to the source from which it came. We cannot in self-respect or in justice to the voters in the party keep it. . . . I venture the opinion...
...would be "no picnic" to whip Ibn Saud. Meanwhile the British Laborite Daily Herald cried in frank alarm: ". . . This country is on the verge of war not with a few scattered tribes but with a monarch who has proved his ability and military strength and whose easy defeat cannot be assumed...
...Sultan "whose easy defeat cannot be assumed," even by the British Empire, has placed above one of his palace doors a verse which might be rendered thus...