Word: lets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there be who relied on editorial exhortations to begin study for his finals, and failing to hear those exhortations, failed his examinations, let him speak, for him we have offended. If there is one man who has forgotten because of us that the finals exist, let him speak, for him we have offended...
That was two days before war. Lightning, chained or free, strikes quick. This is sixty days after war. The thunder of our prowess is still echoing, although no lightning has demolished Germany. Let us hope, for the sake of humor, that before the chronicle runs into the 200th day, it may be recorded that "American arms have met the German arms in honorable combat, and driven them victoriously back...
...recent raids on England by German aerial forces have inspired in the attacked country a cry for retaliation. Let the German unprotected towns be shattered by the bombs of English raiders, and German women and children die as have the English, by that blind destruction against which there is no defence...
...Let us honor fully the historic dead. We may know that other men in a later age will pay a like honor to us, if we prove worthy, and fulfill our destiny in a way not undeserving of remembrance...
...Let us make no threats until we have done some worthy deed in the conflict of nations to justify our martial pride...