Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of Oberlin College, a Congregational institution founded in 1833. J. T. Henderson is president of Oberlin Business College, a commercial school which gives six months' and longer courses in bookkeeping, typewriting, stenography and kindred subjects. The business college has no connection with the college. If rewrite men cannot carry in their heads names of college presidents (surely not an impossible task) a copy of the World Almanac may be had for 50c and the needed information in this case...
...glides-nose-dive, falling leaf, swallow flight, tail spin, loop-the-loop-would thrill and chill a landlubber. It impresses the reader (now the writer) as an extended straight-classical program of music-quite heavy for a mediocre audience. However, once a person is accustomed to TIME, he cannot help feel when reading other news periodicals that he is drifting to and fro on misty flats...
...Dome scandal. Last May Mr. Blackmer refused to honor a subpoena to return and testify; the passport revocation followed, presumably with the intention of preventing Mr. Blackmer from leaving France for even more distant regions. Not but that he can get out of France without a passport, but he cannot legally enter any of the countries bordering France, which would seem to confine his movements to the high seas...
...City Manager system cannot take effect until Jan. 1, 1930, since the Indiana legislature recently amended the law dealing with changes in city government to stipulate that any change in Indianapolis could not become operative until the present group of city officials complete their elective terms. However, City Manager adherents hope to have this legislative action (which was pushed through purely as a life-saver for the city hall officials) declared unconstitutional. They talked also of bringing impeachment proceedings against Mayor John L. Duvall. The Mayor, elected in 1925 with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, will shortly...
...Guard. It wasn't so. "I am Russian, but people say: 'Why don't you naturalize out?' Why, because I am Russian. It is my country. We have many troubles, but it is my country. If they put me out, what will I do? I cannot imagine myself 'Englishman or Frenchman or American, because I am Russian." "I think I do not do a crime in my conscience, in my soul I know I do not do a crime. But I am distressed...