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Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their shirt; when they take they apologize and soon repay. I don't blame the Red Cross for this, but those stupid, insulting clerks they hire to distribute the provisions. If they know you they give you beans, and bacon, if you are stranger they refuse you and let you starve. This is the first letter she has ever written me in more than 20 years. I must give vent to my emotions. I am not writing for notoreity - not for debates - but for action. Put someone wise. Mr. Baker, Nat. Relief Director, went there to supervise. The people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Let Subscriber Rivera's sister conquer her neurosis or "inferiority complex" and boldly demand her fair share of food from the American Red Cross. Let no insolent clerk again upset her by crying, "Chow" Let Subscriber Rivera report to TIME that all is now well, or otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...However, let me tell you why I joined the Corps in preference to being a Harvard man. First, there is pride of profession. We are proud of the fact that our profession is one of the oldest and the noblest of all. We are proud of the fact that our career is one that deals with the building of men. In the army, men are taken from all parts of the country, from all walks of life. They come largely from the drift, mostly in the raw. From this material of flesh and blood, we build an organization that must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DUTY, HONOR COUNTRY" DRAWS MEN TO CORPS AND ATTRACTION EVER REMAINS | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...Let's look at Cagle's report next," said the colonel to the brigadier-general. "I think that there's something almost elfin about his prose. It--well--it just fascinates...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...Nave back at the Point) is down to its last thesaurus. There of our casulties are in the romance language division. We are being shelled as I write. The sulcide squad, as we call the English department, was virtually annihilated at 3.30 P.M. on Tuesday, when an enemy Gotha let fall a flight or poisoned shakespears. My aide, Corporal Jones, (he hasn't done so well since he left the Point after his team lost to Harvard) is carrying on with a paradigm of the Sanskrit ninth declension in his left breast...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

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