Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot, either in provincial Manhattan or cosmopolitan Cleveland, find accurate printed information about Great Lakes shipping, surely some ex-deckhand could be hired to fill in the apparently considerable gaps of your knowledge of the most important of all fresh water highways...
Sirs: . . . Being of Western birth, I cannot allow the wonders of the far West to go unheralded. Was it too much of an effort on your part to make mention, and include in the list of the world's tallest structures, the L. O. Smith Building in Seattle, Wash., a 42-story structure? . . . L. E. Null Springfield, Mass...
...water. But he does fear the thought of swallowing anything. Nor does he bark like a dog, as popular myths say. His voice is only hoarse. However the paralysis of the disease spreads as in the dog. His dripping saliva is as infectious. The lower jaw drops, the legs cannot support the body. Incapacity extends, until the heart itself can no longer beat...
...fine beginning." He describes Boston's efforts, which include Bible reading, singing of hymns and patriotic songs, scout groups, badges and slogans-and believes in them all. His prime recommendation, however, is short daily periods for discussing Ethics by the case system. He bravely admits that he cannot hold with "the pedagogic fashion of our time . . . against the attempt to influence anybody in any direction." In short he believes, as his final paper on Ethics for social workers shows, in human amelioration under prevailing political, social and economic systems. He is one whose greatest pleasure, short of playing...
...they breathe unmistakable intensity into their roles. Anna Rovina, who plays Leah, the body haunted by the restless spirit of her dead lover, is heralded as one of the world's greatest actresses. In gesture and movement, she speaks eloquently to those in the audience with whom she cannot communicate through the medium of language...