Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roughly one-third of his income in rental. The average wheat crop is about four bushels per hectare (the U.S. average is 45 bushels). The soil is badly eroded. The tenants have never heard of insecticides; few know of any fertilizer other than manure, which they rarely use. They cannot afford plows; instead they hammer at the wretched soil with picks...
...some nationalist generals that it got to be embarrassing. A group of army brass once invited him to a meeting. Just in time, Bruce learned that they were plotting the government's overthrow and wanted his advice. "This is one meeting, gentlemen," he told them, "which I cannot attend...
When you first go on a quiz show, "you feel smart, impeccable, confident," declared Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), describing the queasy sensations of a television guest star. But "after 15 minutes of being asked the simplest questions to which you cannot give the simplest answers [your fellow contestants] aren't your friends, they're your mortal enemies -exposing your ignorance, shaming you by their faultless haberdashery . . . and their air of slightly nauseated pity...
...campus that spread over the heart of old Deerfield. Most of his old New England colleagues (Horace Taft of Taft, Perry of Exeter, Claude Fuess of Andover, Endicott Peabody of Grotonj are dead or retired. Frank Boyden is the last of a generation of great headmasters-a man who cannot show a visitor to Deerfield an empty classroom without shaking his head. "You should see it full of boys," he says. "It's not right without boys...
...dogma of the Incarnation may be hailed as revelation or dismissed as rubbish, but, says Dorothy Sayers, it cannot be called dull. "That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God . . . is an astonishing drama indeed. Any journalist, hearing of it for the first time, would recognize it as News...