Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fields of Gilead [in Transjordan]." He warned the Israelite government not to make "further concessions" to the Arabs. Arab leaders, for their part, have not yet shown any willingness to live with the accomplished fact of a Jewish nation. Said Egypt's King Farouk last week: "I cannot and will not tolerate a Zionist state in the Middle East...
...Science cannot escape its social responsibilities," sighed Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, "but it was so nice when science was considered unimportant and was not in the spotlight...
Last week at Caldwell, N.J., Curtiss-Wright and Pan American Airways demonstrated an elaborate training device, the biggest and best of its kind, which can simulate both "disaster conditions" and routine flights. It has no wings; it cannot fly or even move. But crewmen shut in its cockpit (a copy of the cockpit in Pan Am's new Boeing Clippers) experience nearly all the horrors that can overtake a pilot. They are at the mercy of an unseen instructor who can "simulate" violent weather and faithless machinery...
...first of all be asserted that the freedom to do as you wish at Harvard--the freedom to work as you will and to relax as you will without the fear of becoming the sort of outcast that is always the unfortunate by-product of cohesive groups--this freedom cannot be abridged without injuring one of the College's oldest and best attributes. William James, writing about Harvard students in the first decade of this century, said that "When they come to Harvard, it is not primarily because she is a club. It is because they have heard...
Except in rare cases, this "spirit of learning" seems to be a very weak spirit in Harvard College today. It is probably no weaker than in other American colleges; but this is a fact that magnifies rather than minimizes the problem. If Harvard, as a leading liberal arts college, cannot inspire its undergraduates with the desire to learn, then liberal education would appear to have no place in American life. Surely, unless some way is discovered to light the desire to learn, we will soon no longer be able to assert, along with William James, that students do not come...