Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Struble, 82, took a long look at a series of magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down to the buff, acquitted a news dealer of peddling obscene literature. Said Judge Struble: "The front views, as well as the other views, are of God's own children. There cannot be any obscenity in God's own handiwork." ¶ New York City celebrated its Golden Jubilee ( 50th anniversary of the consolidation of its five boroughs) with a six-hour parade down Fifth Avenue. There were 55,000 marchers, 100 bands, over a million spectators...
...went well until the poet came to the words, "Speed! echoed the . . ." Then he hesitated, and said: "I forget it." Upon being prompted, however, he went on: "Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest." Again the poet paused, and presently said: "I am exceedingly sorry that I cannot remember my own verses, but one thing I shall remember all my life is the astonishing sensation produced upon me by your wonderful invention, Mr. Edison...
...therefore we who fail to prevent them must share in guilt for the dead . . . We must not forget that the roots of conflict flourish in the faults and failures of those who seek peace just as surely as they take shape from the diseases and designs of aggressors . . . We cannot feign innocence through indifference or neglect of struggles that bring on wars...
...himself, tried hard to be optimistic: ". . . This telescope can furnish our stricken society with some measure of healing perspective. This great new window to the stars will bring . . . into fresh focus the mystery of the universe, its order, its beauty, its power. ... Adrift in a cosmos whose shores he cannot even imagine, man spends his energies in fighting with his fellow man over issues which a single look through this telescope would show to be utterly inconsequential...
...twice as fast as the average person's brisk walk, and two-thirds as fast as the best men run a mile. The trick is to whip up a hot pace while keeping the toe of one foot on the ground until the other heel hits (both feet cannot be off the ground simultaneously...