Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is any virtue in the legal institutions of this Commonwealth, citizens of Massachusetts cannot but admit that these accused men have very thoroughly had their day in court. Their day, for that matter, is not yet over, for their counsel are at liberty to appeal once more to the Supreme Judicial Court for a reversal of the present decision. Absolutely no one can urge that there has been any suppression of evidence, or any turning of deaf ears to the pleas of the defense...
Cherry Tree. "The Cannot-Tell-a-Lie incident of the cherry tree and the hatchet is a brazen piece of fiction made up by a minister named the Rev. Mason L. Weems, who wrote a life of our country's father which is stuffed with this and similar fables...
...National Union of Railwaymen: "Do you realize that at this moment 45,000 railwaymen are out of work, and 200,000 are working only three days a week? Yet the striking coal miners expect us to aid them by contributions and to levy an embargo on foreign coal. We cannot and we will not! It is impossible." [Sporadic hisses and jeers...
...before scores of clicking cameras, and saw glistening a queenly tear. Premature reports that former Premier Bratiano was hurrying to Paris and would there deliver to Carol documents restoring him to crown princehood were scotched by Queen Marie who said on reaching the U. S.: "I am afraid Carol cannot return just yet, he has made the great mistake of his life and he must suffer for it, prince or no prince. I hope that sometime though, he will come back...
...religion in the large, unless one derides science, he gets but a short way in discussing either or bath, especially when he relates the difficulties of modern education so closely to them. Mr. Aswell forgets that, though he be at an impressionable stage while at college, the student cannot hope to gain a formula for future existence and a road map from college. He can get less easily catalogued gifts experience of mental freedom, the contact with cultivated minds (nor are they all dull or completely parched), the ability to adjust interests on some saner scale, the small but glorious...