Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprising," asked Earl Beatty in seadog peroration, "that there is apprehension among those who have given thought to this vital question, and that there should be dismay among those who cannot understand how parity in cruisers can be arrived at unless it is to be a parity having regard to the commitments and obligations of each nation? . . . There is no nation, whose naval commitments and obligations are so great and so complicated as the British Empire...
...return to Wall Street. If Finance Minister Luiz Montes de Oca should hasten from Mexico City to be in New York at that time, and several correspondents have predicted that he will, the weather would be getting thick indeed. At least the President-Elect has come straight to headquarters, cannot be accused of taking a correspondence course in what the U. S. wants him to do, a course in which too many Presidents of Mexico have flunked. Speaking of the U. S. last fortnight he said: "We" Mexicans . . . know that this is the school for Mexicans...
Said Dr. Lynch: "The Episcopalian Church is much more closely identified with Catholicism than with Protestantism, and every attempt to practice Church Unity with Protestants proves it. I cannot help feeling that the Anglo-Catholic party which wishes to drop the word 'Protestant' has not only all of the logic on its side, but all of the evidence, both historical and contemporary. Furthermore, every time the Episcopalian Church refuses to recognize the orders of a Protestant minister as equally valid with that of an Episcopalian priest, or refuses to permit a Protestant minister to officiate at its altars...
...competitors throughout each race, wasting his strength by sprinting against runners who would be used up a little further on. This was not the cool policy of Nurmi, who measures his pace with a watch and stays in front out of scorn for human competition and because he cannot or does not like to sprint...
...queer thing is the fact that when a man with hypertrophied prostate dies, the swelling speedily disappears. Postmorticians cannot get the gland enlarged (for laboratory work) from cadavers...