Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Mountain Landis, tsar of baseball, realizes that major-league owners are facing a different problem. President Lee Keyser had pitched his floodlights around his field because he could not get large crowds to go to games in the daytime. Some critics believe that while businessmen in minor-league towns cannot leave their work in the afternoon, businessmen in big cities, who can leave, go to ball games even when they ought not to, principally for the fun of being irresponsible...
...Europa (TIME, April 8, 1929), were either too poor or too nervous to write a $30,000,000 policy. Last week the British treasury and the Board of Trade came to the rescue. They agreed to underwrite that margin of insurance on the great Cunarder's construction which cannot be accommodated in the ordinary market, not as a government subsidy but as an unemployment measure...
Health. Revealed last week were these excerpts from a recent colloquy between His Holiness and Justice Victor James Dowling of New York: His Holiness: "How do I look? Do I look well? ... I cannot explain even to myself how it has been possible to spread such bad news about my 'poor health.' You can be sure it was not my fault if that information was so widespread. . . . Thanks be to God, I am feeling most well, and can do everything I set out to do. What more could a man ask? . . . I cannot slow down my audiences. People...
...lettered beads or stamped metal tag to the child's neck and mother's wrist; or both. Registering a newborn's foot prints is not very reliable, because foot prints are not distinctive for some time after birth. Newborn children clench their fists so tightly that finger prints cannot be made. Dr. Kegel last week suggested a novel idea: stencil the infant's foot in suntan from an ultraviolet lamp...
...Conductor Coates began talking impetuously of something that was evidently of greatest importance and interest to him. He had seen Playwright Eugene O'Neill, had secured permission to put The Hairy Ape into operatic form. But the permission was only the first small step: "In composing music one cannot work as in a factory. The producing comes only after one has become the thing itself. I will have to live The Hairy Ape for perhaps a year before I'll be competent to write music which will be comparable to the text. . . ." In spite of his distrust...