Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American who comes to Oxford at the beginning of Michaelmas Term is likely to wonder why this damp and draughty meeting-place of wintry winds and rains was ever chosen for the seat of a university. While Oxford cannot boast of the yellow, strangling fogs which infest London and turn her days into hideous night, she can offer a specimen of a sort no less disagreeable to newcomers. For a few hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars...
...very careful reader of TIME, and think very highly of it. Hence I cannot help but register a little disapproval at some of your scientific "Bulls...
...ancient as trie crusades, that the pope, as the head of the church on earth, had competent authority to dispose of all countries inhabited by heathen nations, in favor of Christian potentates * * * This high power being accorded to the pope * * * titles acquired upon the supposition that it was rightful cannot now be disturbed * * *." Mayor of Mobile vs. Eslava (Ala. 1839) 9 Porter...
...faithful actress cannot act well when her part is falsely written. But she can pronounce her words and she does not need to make every line a dirge, humming or whistling it. Actress Barrymore said "mush" meaning "must," "wannering" meaning "wandering," and dropped all final dentals. Her voice became deeper as she grew older and she developed a crouch; otherwise her actions did not change. But near the end, the hungry little children in the orphanage cried "Hurrah for the Mother Superior" and, a few minutes later, so did the audience...
...months of 1928. Its president, Roy Everett Tomlinson, has been with the company since 1903. He succeeded Founder Adolphus Williamson Green to the presidency in 1917. He is 51, looks younger, and is so sincerely publicity-shy that even his friend Bruce Barton, famed advertising man, author and interviewer, cannot get a story from...