Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Birth control can't possibly be the answer to any of our problems. A society that stops breeding stops living, both intellectually and, eventually, physically. The human race cannot grow by limiting itself...
Public Disgust. The steel strike, said Adlai Stevenson in a speech to the Institute of Life Insurance in Manhattan, marks "the end of an era. Everybody is agreed that this cannot happen again, that the public interest is the paramount interest, and that irresponsible private power is an intolerable danger to our beleaguered society." To keep it from happening again, Stevenson proposed that Congress arm the President with an arsenal of new antistrike weapons, ranging from boards empowered to make settlement recommendations (present law bars Taft-Hartley boards of inquiry from offering recommendations) to compulsory arbitration if the two sides...
...Flight is also a study in opposites. The young daredevil, or perhaps the your Leonardo, poises on the verge of trying his wings from a cliff top overlooking Pittsburgh's Bigelow Boulevard. He defies authority and rigid conservatism (which say it cannot be done), represented in only two dimensions by the safety poster. His mother, hanging out the clothes, doubtless regards her headstrong son with mixed emotions...
According to president James F. Farr, the YMCA board sought the building as a part of its new program to provide facilities for youngsters who cannot easily get to the "Y" in Central Square...
...approach the problem of honorary degrees? Beauty, after all, "is a vain and doubtful good," and in the matter of beauty contests we would need to feel no shame at turning away from our own time and burrowing into the past. But honorary degrees, Sirs, honorary degrees! Surely Harvard cannot shirk its duty to future historians, its duty to choose from among the many those few worthy of its recognition and their attention. Surely it would be unseemly for a great university to bury its head in the sands of the past and neglect history's need for its wise...