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Word: let (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volume of American soldiers, and should, therefore, have the right to assist in voting ourselves into a war. Why can't we be represented in Washington by a separate "Youth Congress," one representative from each state with a maximum age limit of 30? Is it democratic to let the age 40 and 50 vote the death sentence for the age 20 and 30? If such a plan would be organized I am sure that we would be satisfied. Do the Youth Readers of TIME concur with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...pronouncements of the New Masses on the recent pact are a confounding structure of logical hair-splitting built upon a sweeping assumption as to the duplicity of all mankind--outside of the Bolsheviks. Let the editors tell you how Soviet Russia pled for a peace front with Britain and France. Let them further explain how the latter powers deliberately sabotaged the negotiations, using them merely as a card against Hitler; how they attempted to isolate Russia and maneuver her into a single-handed war with Hitler. In the light of this, Russia was forced into a rapprochment with the Nazis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HICKS AND STONES | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

...Middle Western college student talks to him about the rights of neutrals rather than about women. Other college students let him go as a bloody snob. The Boston city father labels him a terror, to be put down with tear-gas and billies on a balmy spring evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

This was proper bait for the Vagabond. He tore after it like the tail after a kite. "Because Harvard is a conglomeration of every type," he stated with finality. "You can't let her go with Indifference. You have to use every adjective in the vocabulary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...Champ" is about an ex-champ who has nothing left but his memories. It is very sad and it has a happy ending. Don't let this scare you, because you can sit through it without squirming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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