Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against Britain and Italy can be imagined, the possibility that the League can or will adjudicate the rights of Abyssinia seemed dwindling to a remote infinitesimal. Subsequently both the British and Italian Governments made sheep's eyes, despatched letters to the League Secretariat declaring that their mutual agreement "cannot," according to the British letter, "detract from the rights of the Abyssinian Government which may take such decision as it may think fit or limit the possible action of third parties...
...story that relates how God sends Death into the world to get a reckoning from Everyman, and how Everyman beseeches all friendly shapes for aid who have attended him until that time, and how all forsake him. Fellowship bids him farewell; Kindred has a cramp in his toe-he cannot go with Everyman; and as for Good Deeds, his last love, she is so faint that she can hardly stand. Knowledge alone will help him over the way that he must go. Knowledge is as good as her word. She takes Everyman to Confession, and when he has scourged himself...
...Corn Exchange Bank-60 branches hidden around the city where the gunmen cannot find them -enterprising enough to use time clocks but conservative enough in salaries...
...home in Sussex, England; of a break down due to overwork. Attendant at several English elementary schools, he stated that he was virtually self-educated. His literary handicraft produced The Big Bow Mystery (written to prove that it is possible to contrive a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by a reader until the last chapter) ; Jinny the Carrier; The Melting Pot. He was once listed as the third most eminent Jew in the world, Einstein considered relatively the first, Weizmann, inventor of TNT and head of the Zionist movement, second...
...remove the sticky coating from the teeth without injuring the enamel. . . . If you are confused about the care of your teeth, your dentist will corroborate the verdict of sixty years. . . ." Alert readers of the Saturday Evening Post, eager to applaud a "dentifrice fight," reflected ruefully that Forhan's cannot start rebuttal through the Saturday Evening Post for two months-the time consumed by the Post's pulp presses and slow freight distribution system in the preparation of each issue...