Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading cafeterias in the vicinity of the yard. Accordingly, 3240 students still remain whose feeding habits and obscure. Whether this vast army of students does its own culinary work, or fasts, or dines in Boston, or consents itself with banquets at "The Bits" cannot be definitely ascertained...
Legal involutions and complexities are interesting if taken in small doses. And they have never been more naively (or more publicly) exploited than in the trial of the California apostle Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson. Until the jury renders a verdict one cannot help matters by passing private judgment on the lady; but one may--and millions of newspaper readers do--derive considerable entertainment from the agile antics of her lawyers. In fact out of the various journalistic menus which have been served the public continuously for seven months the McPherson affair wears the best...
...aluminum disc of earlier experiments. It was a sheet of nickel 1/2000 of an inch thin and three inches in diameter, supported against the 100-pound suction of the vacuum tube by skeleton struts of molybdenum. The molecular structure of nickel is such that molecules of air (oxygen, nitrogen) cannot pass through it, though it offers a minimum of resistance to those billionth parts of molecules, electrons...
...able to buy an eight-story building, yet under construction in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, to house his activities. The building is worth $1,500,000, and stands on ground leased for 84 years at $30,000 yearly rental, or $2,520,000 for the entire period. Bernarr Macfadden cannot buy the land in fee simple, for it is owned by Trinity Corporation, which represents Trinity Church...
Trinity Church, on Broadway opposite Wall Street, two centuries ago owned approximately 60 acres of Manhattan land between Broadway and the Hudson River. Much other land has been donated since. Much has been sold. Trinity still is a very great landlord, and, like all great landlords of urban property, cannot keep supervision on its tenants-be they banks, brothels or Macfaddens...