Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This report, covering the multitudinous activities of the society, indicates several tendencies, the most significant of which is the decrease of interest in social service work. It is questionable whether, as the report states, athletes are responsible for this condition; athletics, although a convenient sinner, cannot bear the brunt of every failure. Undergraduate sentiment is a more likely cause...
...obey the Levirate Law commanding him to raise up seed to his brother. The purpose given by Paul in Chapter VII of the First Book of Corinthians for the institution of Christian marriage is to avoid promiscuity. Nothing whatever is said about procreation, therefore it certainly cannot be said to be the sole purpose of marriage. In fact, this conclusion is tacitly agreed upon by all sects of the Church when they bless marriages between people who are beyond the reproductive...
...means used by uncivilized peoples to relieve overpopulation,--the natural means, one might say,--are abortion, infanticide, war, starvation, disease. They are not due solely to overpopulation and cannot be wholly abolished by birth control; but overpopulation is their chief cause, and birth control will do more toward eliminating them than any other one thing...
...Armour Grain Co. the expulsion means dissolution. Without trading privileges on the Chicago Board of Trade it cannot conduct the cash business upon which its profits depend. Those profits have not been large in recent years. Sometimes they have been displaced by losses, which Jonathan Ogden Armour, present head of the Armour family, has paid from his own funds. This is so, although the company owns six great grain elevators, including the Northwestern in Chicago (largest in the world), and leases ten others. In these elevators it can store 28,800,000 bushels of grain. In effect...
...furry outer jacket partially conceals the crimson tunic with gold sleeves. Jewels gleam against the darker shades, simplicity sits elegantly upon the brighter colors. The complete history of the canvas is not known. What happened to it during the centuries of its "loss"? Until that is explained, scientists cannot be certain that this is a genuine Titian. What difference does it make? asked artists. It is itself rapturously beautiful. Romancers, too, resented this inquiry into its secrets...