Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While the nations involved [in the World Court] cannot yet be said to have made a final determination, and from most of them no answer has been received, many of them have indicated that they are unwilling to concur in the conditions adopted by the resolution of the Senate. While no final decision can be made by our Government until final answers are received, the situation has been sufficiently developed so that I feel warranted in saying that I do not intend to ask the Senate to modify its position. I do not believe the Senate would take favorable action...
...member of a community of other men, that the world is not made for him alone. That is what they tell the 6 year old child in Sunday School but it is true notwithstanding and therefore worth repeating when it is forgotten. The problem of adjustment, like other problems, cannot be solved by ignoring it. All these student conferences and reports on world peace, student military training, football, and educational problems in general merely form the external evidence of a healthy interest in the problems of the social community, and more narrowly in the student community. Because no immediate practical...
Although it is unfortunate that the younger generation of authors cannot write enough worthwhile plays to satisfy the demand, it is a compliment to the theatregoing populace that it refuses to accept drivel and receives instead the thought-stimulating and inspiring lines of Ibsen. In this case, turning to the past is a sure sign of progress...
...unpopular for the edification of minds who see in "modernism" ultimate salvation is, at best, a sorry game. And what little Dr. Mather can say to clarify this nebulous issue will possess the inadequacy of forced condensation. The whole affair, in the light of serious and sober thought, cannot appear other than ridiculous...
...political consequences of this position can hardly disregard these facts. At every turn in the world struggle for oil America's hand has been called. She now faces a situation economically dangerous in the extreme due fundamentally to European eleves ness in taking advantage of an American provincialism which cannot see before its nose, or rather beyond the narrow limits of the Atlantic and the Paciffe. The necessity for international point of view toward and understanding of the world problems has heretofore has little appeal to the unidealistic American. When expressed-in terms of the pocket-book...