Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grand Rapids is a very fast-growing city, but we cannot quite compare it to Detroit at this time, and your picture is definitely a photograph of Campau Square in this city...
With due respect to all mental giants, I cannot help thinking after reading of Cyberneticist Wiener [TIME, Dec. 27] that we "of mediocre attainments or less" can still provide an insight to the value of the human brain which is fearfully lacking in Professor Wiener's cold analysis...
...Yangtze falls, we shall let in upon ourselves a sea of troubles in comparison with which our present problems in the Far East will seem a mere unpleasant puddle . . . We do have to recognize that we are at one of the turning points of human history, and that we cannot afford to be wrong in our decisions, since the stake may be not only the independence of China but also the independence of the United States...
...vicious sides to [this ridiculous] practice is that often you are bound in such a manner that you cannot go to any other source to get the story . . . Every time you bind yourself in one of these absurd confidences, you get scooped. Let the pundits take over all the off-the-record conferences. Let them use the oblique references. Let our own staffs go back to reporting...
...report of the President's Commission was a huge boost for federal aiders. They cried out more loudly that the educational system was grossly inadequate from top to bottom, and that parts of it were downright rotten. They underscored what the Commission said: that democracy cannot rest on shoddy education, and that a modern state (democratic or not) cannot survive in the twentieth-century world on antique citizen training programs...