Word: cannot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...industry cannot pay from three to eight times the hourly wages paid abroad and compete with foreign manufacturers. Let U.S. labor leaders in their endless quest for "more" chew on this hard, inescapable fact...
...hunting coons and skunks in the nearby Kankakee marsh, mowing neighbors' lawns for spending money, playing halfback on the high school football team and run sheep run in the meadow back of his home. In political fact. Halleck was running as soon as he learned to walk. He cannot remember when he first decided to spend his life in pursuit of high office. But his ambition was plain for all to see. Said Rensselaer High School's yearbook...
Almost everybody concerned seemed to feel that the purpose of Geneva was to render a heads-of-state meeting possible. But the inconclusive talk at Geneva, and the uncompromising talk outside it, reinforced the suspicion that a summit meeting is unlikely to settle anything the foreign ministers cannot. In fact, even Nikita Khrushchev's longstanding enthusiasm for summit talks seemed last week to have been cooled-as it was last year-by the evidence that he was unlikely to win any cheap victories. Almost ignored was his offhand remark, in a speech at Korea in Albania: "If there...
...force behind Torroja's exploration of concrete as a material that could be both cheap and strong. The son of a Catalan mathematics professor, Torroja trained as an engineer at Madrid University, then worked for five years as a contractor before finally deciding that "the structure of concrete cannot be figured mathematically-it is much stronger than the mathematician can prove, and you can't wait for the mathematician. You have to go ahead and try what you know by intuition." To prove his theory of intuition, he founded his own Technical Institute of Construction and Cement, kept...
...Congressional investigation aimed at headline capturing is not necessarily the news which the public needs to know. Operating under the pressure to get a story which will sell papers, and under the realization that he lacks the sophistication to handle complicated scientific, diplomatic and economic decisions, the Washington reporter cannot fulfill, Cater maintains, his ideal role as public informant...