Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gold and silver and lead; In the hands of a purchaser they may become anything. But there are some in when none of the display is attractive. This, they think, is strange, Where so many are satisfied to exchange their pennies, there must be something wrong with those who cannot find a metal worthy of their own coin. So they make a resolution for their own good and spend their money on a toy whistle to blow, just because everybody else has a whistle, and spend the rest of the time trying to think of tunes to play...
...disarmed, all other countries are armed, especially France. But Germany is not completely disarmed.** She has 100,000 men, and what men! Fine men−officers and non-commissioned officers−and behind them enormous numbers who have shown in the late War what heroes they were. You cannot say that if another call to arms sounded they would not, for eight or ten years at least, be ready to come forward and fight...
...Freshman class. This is true of any college. But at Harvard there is concomitant miracle in the fact that there are few groups more miscellaneous than a Senior Class on Commencement Day. The Freshman who, during the next three days plans the details of an apparently all important schedule, cannot by any exercise of academic scrupulousness be sure of benefiting from Harvard. Four years are fleeting, and upon him they will leave no mark that is ineradicable at the hands of environment and fortune. Success depends, quite completely, upon his degree of accessibility to what Harvard offers. The Freshman fixes...
...America cannot live on prosperity alone...
Said he in effect: "A nation which holds in its hands the economic leadership of the world cannot afford to oscillate from one foreign policy to another according to whom or to which party momentarily occupies the White House...