Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alien child, Andrew Carnegie, and his beneficent works; hailing the Mellon brothers, the "distinctly American effort" of the painting exhibition and Andrew Carnegie once more, President Coolidge finished on a note especially pitched for Pittsburgh. "There are still some," he said, "who sit apart, who do not see,, who cannot understand. To them our industrial life is the apotheosis of selfishness. They cannot realize that the rattle of the reaper, the buzz of the saw, the clang of the anvil, the roar of traffic are all part of a mighty symphony, not only of material but of spiritual progress...
...American Mercury (and sometimes in his Senate fulminations), Senator Reed permits himself to perform feats of epigrammatic agility. "Give me the radius of a man's intelligence," he has written, "and I will describe the circumference of his tolerance." And, "The nobility of the mighty dead cannot be lessened by the puerility of the living." But the fair-day crowd at Sedalia, Mo., would not enjoy epigrams. What Senator Reed gave them last week was a good old-fashioned balloon ascension with oratorical sandbags dropping on Republican malefactors. Sedalia, Mo., pronounced it Senator Reed's best speech...
...cannot be a halfway citizen under that flag. . . . We have a great deal to give when we confer citizenship upon an alien. It is like admitting a new stockholder, and he or she should be willing to do what the other stockholders have obligated themselves to do. We must forget our various views on pacifism when war comes...
...battle of wheat' cannot be won in only one year. But the possibility of winning it exists. Nobody now doubts that it is possible to increase the average yield per acre. Wheat must be raised wherever possible by intensive methods. Zones giving a high yield per unit of area must be generalized. Some people think it is possible to arrive at 100 quintals [five tons] per hectare [nearly two and a half acres] and I also believe that Italian agriculture can still advance far on the road to perfection...
...twelve years. Of the paintings, 40 are real Rembrandts, of the drawing, 60; of the etchings, 40. None of these are in the U. S. Said Dr. Van Dyke further: Some of these works, on the grounds of style, I attribute to Rembrandt pupils. ... In many uther cases I cannot say whose they are. Some of these etchings and drawings which have been wrongly attributed to Rembrandt are very fine works. Some are worthless... . He had 72 pupils. What has become of their work? Nearly all of it has been attributed to Rembrandt. . . . About 50 years ago the great modern...