Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally, as last year, a note of political significance has entered the proceedings. In 1743, Samuel Adams, speaking to a Commencement Day audience that included the Governor of the Colony, said, "It is lawful to resist the chief magistrate if the state cannot otherwise be preserved," and a Harvard graduation became one of the first sounding boards for the American Revolution. Now, very much as two hundred years ago, a lot of people look to the Harvard Yard on the second Thursday of June. The dross and the libations have been diverted to other days of the year; the original...
...such a development must not happen. The ideal national course--aid to the actual democratic socialistic parties as well as the present governments of Western Europe--is perhaps too much realistically to hope for faced with our prevailing political temper. A minimum of desirability in United States policy, however, cannot, and must not, be permitted to seem too much to hope for. An overwhelming vote by the House Appropriations Committee should restore the European Recovery grant to its original amount. United action by the House and the Senate should then be secured with personal political considerations thrown aside...
...provides the love interest and very little else. His opposite, Shirley Temple, is now a Woman, let it be announced. Her acting is competent and mature, if a trifle too cute. Fonda plays the stiff-backed, knuckle-headed Colonel skillfully, but even so experienced an actor as he cannot carry this trite and sloppy picture...
Devil: "Your inclination is I. In short, you give me such a wonderful role that I wonder if sometimes you do not confuse me with God. The amusing thing, I tell you, is that henceforth you cannot believe in One without the Other. Just listen to the fable of the gardener...
...today as one rings someone up on the telephone. Indeed, it would seem to me unworthy to call on him without having first put myself in a state to hear him . . . There are some who would consult Christ to know how to lace a pair of shoes; I cannot; I will...