Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Mayor of London is almost invariably a different sort of man from his counterpart in a great U. S. city such as Chicago or New York. Political pull cannot elevate an Englishman to the post whose incumbent has authority to grant (and hence to refuse) permission to the King-Emperor to pass Temple Bar, traditional gateway to the City of London. Great wealth and an established, honorable position in the business community are the well-nigh indispensable qualifications of any Londoner who would become "My Lord Mayor." The office is really honorary, the incumbency only one year. Anyone...
...last week from his stock farm at Maracay, President Gomez unexpectedly wired his Congress: "I cannot accept the high charge...
...accusations that the Catholic Church as an institution was implicated in the revolt, I cannot answer such a charge in the affirmative...
...will be able to land on a field we cannot see. Fog flying is hazardous now, but I expect that within the next few years we will be able to fly through almost any kind of weather. So that conditions being somewhere near equal in regard to fog, I think distance from the city would be of primary importance...
...went on, "occasionally there are laws which cannot be respected, no matter how they are observed by good citizens...