Word: let
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JAMIESON Calgary, Alberta, Canada So close is Canada to the U. S., so similar its interests, so interwoven its activities, that many a Canada story is treated of by TIME Foreign News. Example: "'World's Greatest Railroad," TIME, April 15, Business. Let more Canadians say how they would like their Canada news - under "Canada" in Foreign News or mixed through TIME...
...excellently shaded acting; the dialogue and general tempo are brisk. But then unfortunately there comes a slump. The last act is a great disappointment. Not that one necessarily expects any noteworthy conclusion to be drawn from the good-natured prattling which has taken place: one does nevertheless feel considerably let down when the final act rolls to a flat and disappointing conclusion...
...written from Rhodes House, Oxford. The quotation drawn from this letter. "In consequence (the scholarships being tenable specifically for three years) there has been a tendency to look askance at any scholar who has ventured to resign at the end of his second year as at one who has let his committee down," seemed at the time of writing ample justification for the CRIMSON's stand on this point. The expression "social sin" employed by the CRIMSON was not meant to indicate that any definite contract had to be entered into by the Rhodes Scholars...
Last week, in Havana, Chairman Earl D. Babst of American Sugar Refining Co. called importantly at the presidential palace of Gen. Machado. His remarks were terse and to the point. Now that the experiment had failed, he declared, let there be no thought of repeating it. And let all traces of the disaster be expunged. Let Sugar Export Co. pass quietly into oblivion...
Morris Gest, Russian-born Manhattan theatre-man, made a speech in Milwaukee last week. Excerpts: "A nation might not, officially, do what Henry Ford as a citizen may do. Let him, who thought enough of humanity to send a peace ship to war-torn Europe, now send American experts who can analyze, assimilate and then present to America the needs of a nation ready, eager, anxious to emerge from clouds of darkness and take a rightful place among the nations of the world. . . . Then let the report of the committee be presented to President Hoover, who will know what...