Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact too scholarly to be "the paper of the working classes," and attentive reading of any number, with its four or five pages of cabled news, its careful editorial expressions, its articles written by many of the world's leading literati, scientists and statesmen, would show that it cannot be the newspaper of a class, but can only be the newspaper of an entire nation. J. B. POWERS
...differences of opinion and of interests among the nations which have long prevented the establishment of further rules of international law cannot be disposed of in a day . . . progress may be made now where progress never could be made before...
...best one act play ever written--A veritable classic," exclaimed Ethel Barrymore. "I have acted in 'The Twelve Pound Look' on various occasions for nearly twenty years, and I always come back to it. When I cannot be in an exceptionally fine larger play, I invariably resort to this...
...literature. Unfortunately, too few of these men possess in addition to their native ability, the mental poise which disallows the indiscretions of mediocrity. Not content to pray to their own muse, they wantonly and with an often unintelligent iconoclasm destroy the temples of other muses. Such men, obviously, cannot stride the twin steeds of Pegasus and Propriety. Nor is this an ability remote from greatness. Bulls in so many china shons, they are often futile in conversation and vulgar...
...college mind, a semplance of schoolboy delight in staying away from class. The baneful part is that the vacation is so limited as to be practically useless. Even the senior must return for his first class, remain for his last. Yet most undergraduates would defend them. One cannot lose conventionally in a fortnight...