Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most airmen steer clear of thunderclouds. Inside, there's apt to be a rough-house laced with lightning and rattling with hailstones. But sometimes thunderstorms cannot be dodged. So the Air Force, cooperating with the Navy, the Weather Bureau and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, undertook to find the best way to deal with them. If a plane flies too slowly through the vertical gusts, it may lose flying speed and stall. If it flies too fast, the gusts may tear its wings off. This week the Air Force published a chart showing how fast various planes should...
...they cannot contain, let them marry...
...doing this the church does not renounce her thesis . . . but merely adapts herself . . . Hence arises the great scandal among Protestants . . . We ask Protestants to understand that the Catholic church would betray her trust if she were to proclaim . . . that error can have the same rights as truth . . . The church cannot blush for her own want of tolerance, as she asserts it in principle and applies it in practice...
...American Airways wanted a travel ad on Ireland. The J. Walter Thompson agency, digging through travel folders, liked some lines attributed to George Bernard Shaw: "I was lost in dreams in Ireland; one cannot work in a place where there is such infinite peace...
There were exceptions, of course, but he charged the textile industry with profiteering on poor quality goods. His bill of particulars: polo shirts and quilts with "nonwashable sewing threads"; printed dress fabrics that "not only cannot withstand perspiration . . . but cannot even withstand water without staining"; women's woolens that fade in sunlight; taffeta and moire finishes "that disappear when wet"; "socalled washable fabrics [that] shrink 6, 7 and 8%"; raincoats that shrink in the rain...