Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last few issues of TIME, these words, which I cannot find in my Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, have been used. By the context of sentences, I can guess at their meanings. Will you kindly define them, either by letter, or in TIME, or refer me to the dictionary used in your editorial rooms...
General Nobile (lunching with bankers on Long Island, about to go home and be embraced by Mussolini, given a gold medal and a whole fleet of dirigibles to command): "I cannot continue this dispute while I am receiving such delightful hospitality ... I shall not say anything more until I have left the country...
...Negro among the inquisitors asked him what he thought of "sanctification," and it almost seemed as though the glib answers suddenly betrayed shallowness as the youth hesitated and then chose to answer a different question shot simultaneously by some one else. Ah no, thought the stern elders, you cannot be too sure of youth's probity nowadays. And this boy had been pressed resolutely to the Lord's work by his father. He might be, at heart, no voluntary gospel-man, though his own story of receiving the "call" at a street-revival led by his father sounded...
President Ella Alexander Boole of the National W. C. T. U officially declared last week that "we cannot compromise" on Sunday openings of the Sesquicentennial Exposition at Philadelphia. She withdrew" the W. C. T. U. exhibits and moral support. The Exposition already had lost the moral support of Presbyterians, Methodists and Lutherans...
...Helen Wills is probably the difference between their thyroid glands. Suzanne Lenglen is a prima donna. Every stroke, to her, is an emergency which she must meet in some sensational manner. Helen Wills goes about the business of tennis as calmly as an etcher making a design. The Frenchwoman cannot play unless people are watching...