Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again I am startled and puzzled by the attitude some citizens of the artistic world have taken toward a great musical conductor, who cannot give us any good tips on how to improve our war machine, but to my mind has something much more worth while to offer...
...scarred of death? I'm not. I'm looking for-r-ward to it-I can hardly wait." Last week, at 46, death came swiftly to Peter Marshall. Two days later, the last prayer he had written for the Senate was read aloud. ". . . Where we cannot convince, let us be willing to persuade, for small deeds done are better than great deeds planned...
...that proclaimed China's need to modernize herself. He began to cut classes and teach himself from books. The principal reprimanded him and Mao said: "Though it will interfere with my own study program, I will attend classes on one condition: If I ask a question a teacher cannot answer, will you fire him?" The principal pressed Mao no further...
Balfour, Lloyd George, Lord Robert Cecil, Leopold Amery and others helped him to hammer out the terms of the Balfour Declaration which promised to help the Jews establish a national home in Palestine. His enemies were chiefly the English assimilationist Jews, led by Lord Edwin Montagu. Says Weizmann: "There cannot be the slightest doubt that without outside interference-entirely from Jews -the draft would have been accepted . . . substantially as we submitted...
...biggest long-range need is for research, Hirsh believes. Science still does not know why some people can drink safely and others cannot. The underlying cause may be psychological (e.g., immaturity) or physiological (e.g., a constitutional weakness). Excessive drinking costs the U.S. $1 billion a year in lost wages, jails, relief, etc., but the total spent for research in alcoholism is less than $500,000. Says Hirsh: "This glaring paradox continues year in & year out despite the fact that excessive and problem drinking affects the lives of almost as many people as tuberculosis, cancer and infantile paralysis combined...