Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main discrimination in higher education, according to Truman's Commission, is economic. Too many qualified students cannot pay their own way. The Commission asked for federal scholarships and fellowships, as well as generous grants to the states to enable colleges to roll back tuition charges. It appears, however, that elementary and secondary schools are going to be served first by the present Congress. Colleges will have to limp along, and the sizzling issues of aid to private schools and southern segregated education will doubtless be finessed at the present too. But if the Administration really wants to toss...
...producing the same opera several nights in succession (to save money on moving scenery): "Many roles are sung by artists who have won public acclaim in a particular part . . . The roles are so exacting that one artist cannot sing two nights in succession . . ." Anyway, "how about the many [out-of-town] music lovers who . . . want variety in opera just as they want variety in Broadway plays? What would they think, when here for a week of opera, if we produced the same work several nights in succession...
...Clarens, Switzerland, where he had gone to recuperate, and rest his aching head, Conductor Furtwangler admitted that "some difficulties have arisen." Said he: "Naturally, I cannot comment on the situation until I am directly advised...
Even registered Orthodox priests cannot hold classes in religion for children under 18. A nine-year-old boy showed Father George how children learned their catechism. "He held up his left hand, fingers outspread. T have five friends. I know my catechism from my comrade, who learned it from his grandmother. I have to teach it to my five friends . . . I give them an examination. Then if they pass, they become teachers. Each of them has to pass it on to five other friends. That's the way it spreads...
Rudolph's father, Emperor Franz Joseph, had only two interests as Author Lonyay sees it: 1) to design new buttons for his army's uniforms; 2) to design new agreements he had no great intention of keeping ("I cannot get the All-highest gentleman out of the habit of telling lies," his comptroller complained...