Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group, smiles of relief playing on their grim visages, cantered up to an automobile. Nobody was in it. "But they cannot be far away," thought the horsemen. Then, one, with a piercing exclamation of horror, pointed to the back seat of the car on which were scattered the mangled remains of two pet dogs...
...mine owners were not unsympathetic, but pointed out that, as their industry is to a great extent run on borrowed capital and therefore has high interest charges to meet, they cannot afford to increase the level of wages, despite the fact that the total sum involved for the entire industry is something less than $100,000, unless they raise the cost to the consumer, and this the government, which controls mining, will not let them...
...onetime Kaiser holds that his picture and also his character cannot be reproduced anywhere without his consent, according to the laws of the Republic...
...speaker's shouting is only a blur of tones to his listeners. In old people, the receiving apparatus of the ear becomes less elastic than in youth; it does not respond quickly to short waves (shrill) sounds. Words or notes of music following in fast succession run together and cannot be distinguished. The condition is presbyotia (old age hearing). Presbyotes cannot hear cricket chirps, nor high pitched yodeling...
...such grotesqueries. The admirers of the team of Mencken & Nathan are generally to be found among the mushroom intelligentsia at whom their weapons are pointed; but the admiration is so open-mouthed and so self-conscious that the implied self-criticism is forgotten. Two highly articulate, intelligent, bellicose writers cannot help being in a measure valuable. But it would be difficult to prove that Messrs. Mencken & Nathan, in their tremendous excitement, have done very much more than amuse the few and increase the already overwhelming conceit of the many...