Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...This dam and its waters do not need dedicating [cf. Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "We cannot dedicate this ground."] It is rather the people gathered here who need to be dedicated [of. Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "It is rather for us here to be dedicated."]* I do not suppose I am expected to speak to the dam and the water. Anything I might say to them would be of little effect. They will stand there unconscious in accordance with the laws of chemistry and physics and no utterance of mine will have any effect on them...
...There can be no doubt but that the discovery of the Lowell Observatory is of very great value in this respect," continued Campbell. "Such definite knowledge of the greatness of the solar system in which we live cannot help but lead to more valuable discoveries. The discovery of this trans-Neptunian planet, for instance, makes it very much more likely that still other planets will be found in the future...
...making the find. These men set up their great telescope, the 13-inch Triplet, the funds for which were donated by President Lowell, expressly to find the predicted planet and with great skill they managed to get its image on one of their photographic plates. Too much honor cannot be accorded such fine astronomical calculations...
...Hoover's solution of this problem is sound. He would reduce armaments at London and turn the attention of the steel business towards bridges, dams, and other useful public constructions. But unfortunately this cannot be done very easily abroad...
...more in danger of attack against their commerce than against their shores, Professor Friedrich replied, "Yes; the pernicious phrase 'magnificent isolation' has blinded many Americans to the true state of things. President Hoover has said that one American in ten is dependent on our foreign trade. The matter cannot be stated as simply as that, but it is certain that the fate of American goods exported abroad and confronted by European tariffs has great bearing on American domestic industries...