Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...would hardly be worthwhile to dignify book-lifting with the title of petty larceny, but an average of 300 stolen books per year, and over 150 missing in the single fall term of 1929, makes a situation that cannot be overlooked. One professor of note has assured his classes that any man whom he finds smuggling books will be expelled. He has the right idea. Though the punishment may not fit the crime, it is probably humane compared with the vengeance which the inconvenienced and thwarted users of the book would like to take upon the person of the offender...
...eighth printing with the current issue from the press of the Houghton Mifflin Co. Despite the fact that the various chapters were delivered as Lowell Lectures in 1916, they have lost none of the timeliness of their first appearance, and the volume remains one which the student of poetry cannot afford to neglect...
There are two million bricks in the twin smokestacks of the ex-power plant, and each one must receive personal attention before its relations with Harvard University can be severed. A brick is like nothing else in the world. It cannot be suspended, for a well-established precedent rules that each brick must be placed firmly on the top of another. It cannot be placed on probation, because one small laugh would bring down the house. From the moment when it enters the kiln as an amorphous piece of clay with possibilities, a brick is doomed to be fired...
...play makes pretty good reading, but there is absolutely nothing distinguished about it from the first scene to the final curtain. The lines and mechanical construction of the play show familiarity with what can and what cannot be produced, but the lines are by no means uniformly and consistently good...
...others are carried along in the hope of regaining normalcy: one dies after an operation; the Englishman and the younger German finally recover. Word comes that the Englishman has been exchanged; only after a long moment of consideration can the two realize that this means separation, and they cannot reconcile themselves...