Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smooth park road make little noise. The drive would be crossed by footbridges so that pedestrians would not be endangered. It seems unreasonable for a few residents on the Boston shore to insist that they be supplied with a rural park at their back doors. Great cities cannot provide secluded and quiet groves to residents of congested centers...
...Dudley Fitts, who can, and, on occasion, does write verse which at least scans, has contributed some doggerel which smells of the Rotunde and of which this particularly gifted critic cannot decipher so much as a line. One of its verses begins with a comma. It doesn't really seem to matter...
...only question that remains is whether such practical considerations outbalance the more doubtful equities of government as they exist under present conditions in Mexico. With elections usually only a mockery of free balloting, the party in power cannot be ousted save by military force, and in the past whenever enough of the army could be induced to desert and there was suillicient popular discontent this has been the result...
Special Session. Further agricultural relief and limited changes in the tariff cannot in justice to our farmers, our labor and our manufacturers be postponed. I shall therefore request a special session of Congress...
Marble is the aristocrat of sculptural materials. Like an aristocrat it is sumptuous but brittle. Subjected to undue stresses it splits and cracks. Thus the transportation of marble is ticklish, and cannot be done with casual maneuvering as can steel girders. Sculptors exercise prodigious care in moving marble statuary from studios to sites. One fissure will ruin the labor of years, and one fissure may be produced by the slip of one gawkish moving...