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Word: cannot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your fundamental purpose must be to determine the facts and find solution of a multitude of agricultural problems. ... All this cannot be accomplished by a magic wand or by an overnight action. . . . You are the representatives of organized agriculture itself. . . . I invest you with responsibility, authority and resources such as have never before been conferred by our government in assistance of any industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: From Scratch | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...frequency pictures which assume sophistication in the audience. Only a few of the time-honored tenets of cine-morality are now retained, but these unshakably. In this picture, Clive Brook, as Ruth Chatterton's husband, can be definitely unfaithful to her, but Miss Chatterton after winning him back cannot take her revenge by going to Italy with another fellow as Ethel Barrymore did when she acted in this play (The Constant Wife) on the stage. Miss Chatterton goes away, but she only pretends to have somebody with her. Her tentative paramour gets off the train as it is leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Jencic refuses until she weeps. Then Louie cannot be found. Then the truth comes out. Louie has got her pregnant. This time Jencic proceeds against Baker Krusack's advice. He is his own man now. He says : "I know all about Teena, more'n you do. It is true she done something she shouldn't do, but after we get married it will be all right. Everybody makes mistakes. What if people didn't forget such mistakes, then everybody would be mad at everybody else, and nobody would have even one friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasant-Citizen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...farce which might be enjoyed in remote farming sections where boredom sometimes inspires families to exchange husbands and wives. That is the plot of Bed-Fellows. The switch is legally accomplished, but the play's title is, of course, never realized. Such things may happen but you cannot stage them. After much raucous effort at humor and suspense, Bed-Fellows ends where it began, without a single inventive fillip to distinguish it from a score of other mediocrities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Wilson after his departure noticed a discrepancy between the Ford and the Wilson ideas of employe ages. Men from 35 to 60 are the best workers, said Mr. Ford. Men from 30 to 50 are best men," said Mr. Wilson. "After 50," said he, "most men cannot stand the pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford Ages | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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