Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rates to state authorities. In another case the Court allowed the New York Telephone Co. to include as part of its property entitled to a reasonable return a reserve fund built up over a number of years and invested in its plant. An unreasonably low rate, the Court said, cannot be imposed now because of profits made in the past, any more than a high rate can be justified now because of past losses...
...country has long been under the imputation of putting too much emphasis on material things. . . . But no doubt a most conclusive answer to such criticism lies in the fact that material prosperity cannot be secured unless it rests upon spiritual realities it is impossible to create a commercial system which is not built on credit, confidence, and faith. Without the elements of honor and honesty there can be no economic advance. If the requirements of character be withdrawn from our business structure the whole fabric would collapse. IF AMERICA IS ADVANCING ECONOMICALLY. IT IS BECAUSE OF THE DEEP RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS...
...adverse have greeted the announcement of a now Harvard chapel as a War Memorial. The Alumni Bulletin this week prints two of the more favorable opinions, one from a Michigan newspaper and one from the chairman of the Harvard Memorial Committee. The Grand Rapids Press regrets that State universities cannot have such an opportunity, while Allston Burr '89 proposes a nationwide Harvard rally on Armistice Day this year, with the purpose of stimulating interest in the Memorial. The statements follow...
...artists remind one of Baalam and his ass. For once more may we say. "And the Lord opened the month of the ass." But no, we cannot lay as the door of the Almighty such a gross, barbarons, wanton picture capable of origin only in the brain of a moron. For if Lampy can find no other material but scorn of the Jewish students in the college and the aspirations and religious ideals of the Jewish race, then it is quite easy to understand the general attitude towards the publication. B. Wantman...
...does not know whether to assign credit to universal agitation or a series of remarkable leaders. So one cannot do better than to forget both and remember that all the issues were social and economic protests indebted to politics neither for existence or importance. There could be hardly more pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with...