Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University cannot refuse the offer for such high-minded reasons alone. This holier-than-thou attitude would only raise the ire and resentment of Boston-Cambridge residents who have much at stake in the future of the new professional team. There are, however, several practical considerations that would satisfactorily justify to all concerned the University's refusal to rent the Stadium...
...Quincy dining hall staff has said that it cannot make arrangements for so large an audience until next year...
...board chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., received shocking news. General Electric Co. had succeeded in making a synthetic diamond. Hastily, the world's diamond king conferred with De Beers' top officials, finally said: "If it must be, then De Beers must do it too. We cannot stick our heads in the sand." Last week De Beers finally did it; the company announced that it had developed a synthetic diamond to compete with G.E.'s highly successful man-made stones as industrial abrasives...
Logic, argues Russell, cannot provide a man with a set of ethical beliefs. Russell does not even claim to know why he himself believes in the virtue of free inquiry, though logic can tell him the implications of such a belief: "If, for example, it is held that one should act with honesty, then this does not depend on the size, shape or color of those with whom one happens to be dealing. In this sense, then, the ethical problem gives rise to the conception of the brotherhood of man. It is a view first stated explicitly in the ethical...
...publicized Brooklyn dress manufacturer who didn't know the name of the premier of Ceylon and the German-speaking Ambassador to France are all too typical of American amateur diplomats. Such men are needed, in the cases of Paris, London and other Western European capitals, because a career man cannot afford the huge expenditures of an embassy social season; they are used in other cases because the United States has not awakened to the importance in international relations of normal diplomatic channels and a competent man on the spot...