Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first floor of buildings like Harvard Hall, for example, present another alternative, but in the last analysis the solution of the problem depends largely upon the amount of money available for meeting the situation. If the Freshmen are to be moved to the Yard, too much attention cannot be given the question of how to provide for the most satisfactory dining hall accommodations...
...German finance faced the fiscal representatives of six creditor states,* thrusting at them reasons why Germany must not pay, either quickly or in full, the bills they have presented. With a studious, almost pugnacious restraint Dr. Schacht stopped time and again on the brink of saying, "Germany cannot pay." His manner bristled with the confidence that this conclusion would be reached by anyone not a nincompoop. Hour after hour the U. S. Chairman of the Committee, Owen D. Young, sat slightly reclined, with his long lawyer-legs comfortably crossed. He puffed a pale cigar. He let Dr. Schacht talk...
...Austen cannot or will not stoop to "talk American." He will not permit his good intentions to be paraded stark naked before anybody. Therefore when the British press quoted Sir Esme as saying that "before long" something will be done about naval limitation, Sir Austen speared the Ambassador with a statement as sharp and chill as an icicle: "There has been no change in the situation...
Said Rabbi James G. Heller of Cincinnati: "Let the behaviorist and psychoanalyst beware. They may be able to use science for the dissection and description of matter, but they cannot use it to tell men why to live or how to live. Freud and Watson are old-fashioned and their psychology is under the overwhelming influence of Newtonian physics. That is of the past and of the past their conclusions based upon it will also...
...only laugh - Executive Editor of the World, always is five or six hours late for break fast, luncheon, and dinner, no matter what time they are scheduled for. What he consumes instead of meals - a few steak sandwiches with onions, a few dill pickles, and a few apples - cannot be called meals...