Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it had no right to use up and then discard the human components of its structure. It warned the nation's steelmakers that excessive profits from production should be equitably shared through lower prices. At the same time, it sounded an implicit warning to labor that benefits cannot be won at the expense of industry's good health. In other words, the board seemed to be saying that labor's old war cry, "We want more," could lead sooner or later to mutual extermination. U.S. labor could not afford to kill the goose that lays...
Said she: "After his terrific concentration on the trial all week-like walking a tightrope-the mere sustained effort of conversation fatigues Harold. He simply cannot spare his energy talking to people." For relaxation on weekends in Westhampton, N.Y., the judge has been rereading all of Dickens ("So far removed from the trial"), playing golf, billiards, and going out in his boat to watch the sailboat races...
Science & Poetry. "I have been," writes Trevelyan, "not an original but a traditional kind of historian." Unlike Arnold Toynbee, he saw no pattern in the past, evolved no sweeping philosophy of history. "Philosophy must be brought to history, it cannot be extracted from it. And I have no philosophy of my own to bring, beyond a love of things good and a hatred of things evil...
...Texas Cancer Bulletin was started early in 1948 by Dr. Randolph Lee Clark Jr., director of Texas University's M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research, in Houston. He had a sound idea: most cancer patients are seen first by general practitioners who cannot cull all the journals for specialized articles; therefore they should be taught, through short, snappy, easy-to-read articles, how to spot the disease quickly...
Later, some of the accusers confessed that they had sinned. Wrote the Rev. John Hale, who had been a witness against one of the witches: "We walked in clouds and could not see our way. And we have most cause to be humble for error . . . which cannot be retrieved." And indeed it could not be retrieved, for before the nine months' hysteria spent itself 20 innocent men & women had been executed in Salem...