Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restraints on the free exercise of the mind; they may in fact not impose such restraints, and they may well not even be appropriate devices for the imposition of such restraints on any occasion. Rather, what is bad is the existence of a belief among common men that intellectuals cannot be trusted as citizens. The oaths and affidavits serve, it seems, as reprimands. And to those who judge the reprimands wrongly directed they have also seemed insults, as the language of the protests ("offensive," "odious") indicates...
...Orne, an instructor in the Psychiatry Department of the Medical School, a teaching fellow in the Social Relations Department and member of Mental Health Center. The primary purpose of the study has been "to elucidate the nature of the hypnotic state," to discover exactly what hypnosis can and cannot do. Over 200 Harvard and Radcliffe students are participating in these tests along with students from other local schools. The results of these studies have tended to remove much of the mysterious fog that surrounds hypnosis and to clear up many of the popular misconceptions...
...beside him were clergymen of many denominations. All the Christian missionaries in the territory knew what might be at stake. There are only about 9,000 white missionaries in Africa (pop. 233,775,000). This means that native converts must carry the main burden of spreading Christianity, and they cannot function effectively if native courts can punish them for giving religious advice to other natives...
...open market over a period of ten years. Such a plan, said the court, would have a "serious impact on the market value of the stock of General Motors and Du Pont" and thus would cause "substantial losses to the many thousands of holders of such stocks who cannot conceivably be called guilty persons...
...needling the Government: "The testimony [offered] by the defendants, that of men of wide experience and great responsibility for investing funds and marketing securities, must be given great weight. The type of evidence introduced by the Government, consisting of the testimony of economists without practical experience or management responsibility, cannot overcome the weight of such testimony." Then, borrowing almost the same words used earlier by Du Pont attorneys, Judge LaBuy knocked down the Government plan as "unnecessarily harsh and punitive...