Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Sept. 6 press story on Nation's Heritage . . . states that "Forbes is counting heavily on its snob appeal." Absolutely untrue. Heritage will be one of publishing flossier flops if it cannot achieve its vitally important purpose-"to convey in a dramatic, graphic way a greater knowledge of all the things that have made and make our nation; to give a picture of the heritage that belongs to all Americans in a manner that will have an appeal to most Americans-through the medium of pictures, art and color...
Solomon reluctantly closed the Bible. "I cannot speak about my sister or our childhood days," he said. His quiet teacher's voice-he is a teacher of classical Hebrew at the school-showed neither affection nor dislike. "She is a very important person and I am a very simple man. I do not like to advertise...
...congress of 800 party workers in Warsaw Gomulka said: "Comrades, tell all the party members I committed a number of errors. However, I've realized all these errors under the influence of sharp criticism by my comrades . . . Our party is a party of struggle, and one cannot be victorious in a struggle if the leader is hesitant. Such hesitation appeared in my case...
...tall man with a long, foxy face, a pointed beard, and a nose that drooped on & on. He liked to grow flowers and watch birds. Germany's Wilhelm II detested and respected him: "I cannot stand Ferdinand but he beats us all for brains." Russia's peace-loving Leo Tolstoy came closer to the world's opinion when, as a curtain line in his play Plody Prosveshcheniya (The Fruits of Enlightenment), he had a valet pick up a newspaper with the remark: "Well well, let us see what our Ferdinand...
Only rockets can get into this laboratory and, so far, they cannot stay there long. But Dr. Van Allen thinks that there are other possibilities. "Serious consideration," he says, "is being given to the development of a satellite missile which will continuously orbit around the earth, at a distance of, say, 1,000 kilometers (620 miles)." Circling endlessly, far above the drag of the atmosphere, its instruments could radio data for generations of scientists to study. Or perhaps some hardy scientist might make a few turns in the belly of this synthetic moon, and then return to earth full...