Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions and ones which, in whatever way would be helpful, the college undergraduate, the faculty member, the administrator, should attempt to answer, should at least study. All the other may interest casual connoisseurs of the pornographic, those who must, though it be vicarious, have floridity in their lives. It cannot interest anyone who is sincerely interested in American education...
...have established chamber music within earshot of the very lobbies of Congress and actually under federal patronage was a feat for no ordinary woman. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Pittsfield. Mass., and Washington is certainly unique. Discerning travelers along the road from bustling Pittsfield to smart Lenox, Mass., cannot have failed to learn that the considerable eminence known as South Mountain, by which they must pass, is mostly Mrs. Coolidge's property; that the spacious house on its summit is hers. The smaller white stone building on the mountain's slope is where, seven years ago, she housed...
Thomas Alva Edison, New Jersey inventor: "In 1910, just after the death of Philosopher William James, I was asked my views on Immortality. I replied: 'I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul . . . Soul? Soul? What do you mean by soul? . . . The Brain immortal? No, the brain is a piece of meat-mechanism . . . wonderful meat-mechanism,' But the November issue of The Forum will contain another interview with me in which, now aged 79, I say that even evidence that science now possesses tends to favor belief in Immortality; that there is nothing necessarily shocking to practical...
...Glacier Bay locality was first studied by John Muir about 50 years ago. The largest of the ice streams, the Muir Glacier, once visited annually by thousands of tourists, has retreated over eight miles since 1900 and now cannot be approached by a steamer of any size because of the large amount of ice floating in the channel...
...method is haphazard and strangely rhythmic, and the result is very fair theatre without being at all stagey. Bound between covers, it runs thin in the reading; but it is so evidently made for seeing and not for reading that this criticism cannot touch the author's craft...