Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federation exists, the student's part in formulating the educational process. It is furthermore noteworthy that official representatives from 200 student bodies throughout the country gathered at the Congress, ratified the constitution of the Federation and provided for its permanent existence. But such evidence, smoug as it may be, cannot in the last analysis be considered final...
...Loucheur and his friends have the money and the power to realize their ideal. But will they? Can they resist the pressure of Anglo-Saxon gold upon their vacuum? Probably they cannot. Thrifty, as are nearly all Frenchmen, they are already rumored to entertain the possibility of selling to three non-Latins a third each of one of their hundred acres for a sum sufficiently stupendous to pay the expenses of developing the other...
...went, to Seattle and Chicago and all of the little places that I can't even remember, they broke through the police lines to clasp my hand and tell me of their affection. It is them that I love and to them that I shall someday return. ... I cannot look into the future, and enough unto the day is the joy or the sorrow thereof...
...Bishop, in short, was keenly interested in Society; he knew Society; he would be able to clarify the special sig nificance of this ducal affair. Before a congregation of 1,000 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Bishop delivered himself. "This action of the Vatican cannot be passed over. It seems to be incumbent upon me to express to our clergy and people, and to any others who are interested, my judgment in the matter." The action of Rome, he pursued, "seems wholly at variance with the teaching of the Roman Church as to the sacredness...
...18th Century. It brings better prices now because, in addition to its literary quality, its sentimentalism, its triteness and the excellence of its technical effects, there hovers over it a formal and elegant carnality which the modern mind likes to encounter. Perhaps carnality is the wrong word; perhaps you cannot apply it, for instance, to Lawrence's picture of Miss Mary Moulton Barrett for which Sir Joseph Duveen gave 74,000 guineas; perhaps you cannot call this pure and lovely miss, standing with round arms pressed to round bosoms, a storm behind her head, animation in her eyes, gauze...