Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...standpoint of President Hoover is entirely correct and it is surprising to realize that the Senate cannot see the unpleasant effect of the present uncertainty that many companies find themselves thrown into because of the delay in passing the Tariff Bill. Whatever is done on tariff is bound to hurt certain interests. It would be better indeed to decide once for all on a certain tariff, notwithstanding how inaccurate it might be, and to stick to it for at least a specified period of time...
...considered as "grown up" and to be treated as a person of mature years and judgment, then such a penalty as that handed out by the New Haven authorities, though harsh, may be justified in instances when actual damage to property or persons is involved. But one cannot be sure that any student body has reached the point where all of its members are level-headed and can remain uninfluenced by mob spirit under the circumstances that usually lead to college riots. There is a broad distinction between rioting with a definite destructive purpose in mind and occasional outbursts...
...case of Music 4, not only are students unable to hear full orchestrations during the course of a lecture, but they cannot in off hours, use the file of records kept by the music department. When it is manifestly so difficult to procure records of the various types of music taught in Music 4, and when students have such a limited opportunity to hear the music in the original, there seems no reason why the record files should not be made available, together with the use of the phonographs in the Music Building during the afternoon and on certain evenings...
...Infinite Shoeblack. Will the whole Finance Ministers and Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack happy? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two; for the Shoeblack also has a soul quite other than his stomach.?Sartor Resartus...
...execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.* Dos Passos has many friends, no intimates. He is the original of "Hugo Bamman" in Critic Edmund Wilson's novel, I Thought of Daisy (TIME, Oct. 7). Tall, anxious-browed, bald, nearsighted, monkey-gestured, he is excessively shy, extremely polite, chivalrous, stammers, cannot pronounce the letter R. Said never to use bad language himself (except when speaking of the late great Author Henry James), he admires those who do, writes about them. Unlike his books, he is brimming with youthful enthusiasm. Last September he married Miss Kate Smith of Chicago: they are now abroad...