Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They, like the average members of any graduating class at school, wanted to go to college. Some headstrong individual thought of Harvard. The rest thought of nothing. According they went to Harvard. This hold true for nearly every college in the country, far outweighing parental influence. Personally I cannot see how so many happened to think of Harvard, but that is because I happened to think o'Yale...
...convinced some ulterior motive prompted the publication of The President's Daughter, which, even if true, is infamous. The whole thing is very much regretted by Mr. Harding's family and loyal friends, who cannot conceive of events alleged, knowing him as they...
...about sharper juries, harsher laws, fewer pardons and more citizen vigilantes with sawed-off shotguns, he was trying to put criminals into philosophical perspective, where he saw them as sick people whom a humanitarian society ought to cure. A humanitarian philosopher, a man so keen and kindly that he cannot bear to read Mark Twain because that heartless author put his character at such unfair disadvantages?could such a man be nominated to govern a nation? It would not be unheard of, even in the U. S. Observers last week pondered some of the things people would want to know...
...Labor victory was naturally hailed with enthusiasm by that party and there followed a lot of wild talk about a dissolution of Parliament and a general election. In point of fact the borough elections have nothing to do with a national general election and cannot be fairly said to show a sentiment for a change of government, as local and not national issues are the primary considerations. On the other hand, it may reasonably be argued that an overwhelming loss by the Government party could be construed as a moral obligation upon the Cabinet to submit its position...
...this) country?" Dissenters. Chemical executives, thus far unnamed, meanwhile have been active in Washington. They accept Dr. Herty's major doctrine regarding Europe's vigorous industrial attitude. But they demur at his denunciation of foreign loans. They would fight back by Europe's methods. They cannot now. They are blocked by the Sherman Anti-Trust law which forbids amalgamations likely to stifle competition. So (argued they last week) repeal the Sherman Anti-Trust law, or at least amend it to permit unification of U. S. industry to strike as a unit against similarly organized European blocs. Politics...