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Word: cannot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dear President Truman, of whom we are all so fond, cannot possibly be reelected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Wake & Awakening | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...about the new Czechoslovakia, then shut his mouth. John Benes had left his brother Eduard "ill and under precarious circumstances," he said. "For 19 months I was constantly watched. Two weeks ago my brother told me two soldiers were watching me and it was time to go home. I cannot tell you more. I am afraid to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Echo from Prague | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Tunnel from the Sun. There may be many different primary rays. Some, thinks Dr. S. E. Forbush of the Carnegie Institution, may come from the sun. There are plenty of high-speed particles in the sun, but ordinarily they cannot escape into space because of the sun's powerful magnetic field. But sunspots, which are whirling solar hurricanes, have magnetic fields of their own. Sometimes these cancel the sun's general field, making a narrow, nonmagnetic tunnel through which the particles escape. Dr. Forbush claimed to have observed sudden increases of cosmic radiation when such a tunnel happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Mysterious Rays | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...pulpit at Manhattan's Calvary Church, Episcopal Rector Samuel M. Shoemaker said: "Many of us non-Roman Christians have great respect for the present Pope, and respect also some of the stringencies of the Roman system . . . But if there cannot even be conference, with a view to better understanding one another, where differences may be frankly aired and honestly considered, then we are forced to say that, by its own admission, the Roman Catholic communion is simply another totalitarianism demanding complete submission from everyone else as the only condition of fellowship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unity & Rome | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gulliver in Context | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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