Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation of the causes and probable effects of the tremendous expansion in American commerce that has taken place during and since the World War cannot but be of interest to those who would keep in touch with the affairs of the world. Especially is this the case when such an authority as Dr. Klein is the author. As Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce he served under Herbert Hoover when the latter was Secretary of Commerce and his former chief has contributed a forword and many quotations to the book. It can be taken as the official...
However one feels about this still unsettled problem, the rest of the book cannot prove of interest. The questions of natural monopolies, restrictions of trade, and the new position of America as a creditor nation are all discussed, and a whole section is devoted to review of the economic situation in the leading countries and their probable place in the postwar world of commerce. The author's long experience has enabled him to enliven the text with numerous anecdotes and illustrations that make the book not only informative but interesting reading as well...
...sympathy between this author and the modern world is his vocabulary. It includes the frequent use of archaisms and unusual words such as "rathe," "sonant," "unimpasted," which are not found in the average abridged dictionary. The attempt to recover the idiom of another age so deliberate that the writer cannot have realized the many-times repeated truth that the Elizabethtn poets were not works with "thees" and "dosts" and "wilts." Among their contemporaries the words were in good and familiar usage, and a writer three hundred years later is not justified in using them in preference to the language...
...finest appears?really good, too. Their prices compare favorably with those existing aboard competing liners, prices ranging from three to ten dollars per quart, depending upon the demand for the brand you order. There may be some boats flying the Dollar house flag upon which a passenger cannot easily obtain liquor; if there are I haven't heard of them. J. P. MARQUARD...
What is more pertinent, however, in this question of the political allegiance of the director of vocational guidance are his qualifications. I cannot help feeling that, if a faculty member is detailed for this work there will be a great danger; his business experience would be, of necessity limited, because, if he is a good teacher, he cannot have afforded to divide his allegiance between the cloister and the market-place. To discuss vocations intelligently, one must have a detailed knowledge of the subject. The vocational guidance director must be as much an authority on his subject as the professor...