Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...less willing to admit that another expert can be more expert than himself. Doubtless the man who first lit a fire with flints had to do it under the ridicule of experts in lighting fire by the method of the fathers, the rubbing of sticks, who knew that they couldn't light a fire with flints and that consequently no one else could do it; and they doubtless invoked the memory of the ancients as eloquently as do the opponents of the League of Nations. --New York Times...
...Couldn't find people...
Each succeeding Freshman class has taken an increasing interest in singing, last year's Jubilee being perhaps the most successful yet held. Men who didn't know they could sing, or who even thought they couldn't, have learned that one can fall far short of operatic standards of vocal performance and yet enjoy singing. The Freshman Jubilee does not aim to educate nor does it intend to force men to sing against their will; it only hopes to lay the foundation for a life-long enjoyment of one of the most natural and delightful of the few co-operative...
...trustees of the Boston Elevated Railway Company have announced their intention of doing away with odd-cent rates. We knew they couldn't keep it up. The strain of counting the pennies is too much especially now that the war is over...
...some 25 years ago, found lacking in seasonable cheer, and consigned to the bottom drawer, whence it had suddenly and mysteriously risen. It describes the struggles of a brave little woman, and ends, "Then quietly, she walked out into the night." One is consoled by the knowledge that she couldn't possibly walk out anywhere into the night without running into bevies of distressed females shown the same dark door by earlier Advocate editors in their concluding paragraphs...