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Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Let us see, what does the candidate say about it? ... He does not say how to 'work it out constructively.' . . . Thereafter he speaks about an investigation. He is going to investigate it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cause and Effect | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...British Admiralty chose last week as the time to announce that it has let a ?7,750,000 ($37,665,000) contract for the completion of the British naval war base at Singapore to the firm of Sir John Jackson, Ltd., of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Admiralty Bravado | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...boned Baron Dalziel of Kirkcaldy, kinsman of Europe's late Sleeping Car Tycoon Baron Dalziel of Wooler (TIME, April 30), has now said: "I have long ago given up trying to get English people to pronounce 'Dalziel' correctly. . . . The late Lord Dalziel also accustomed himself to let the wrong pronunciation pass uncorrected. . . . He ceased to maintain the tradition that 'Dalziel' should be pronounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Triumph of Wrong | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...city of Winnipeg, in the province of Manitoba last week a tall, ascetic-looking man wandered, but not aimlessly about the city. Here and there he let it be known that Winnipeg suited him. A good town for a breakfast-food factory. No remittance-man he; his accent was not that of an Englishman, but of a U. S. Southerner. His appearance was not that of an Englishman come to make good in the Dominion, but of a U. S. business man, albeit he was less jovial, perhaps a little harder than most U. S. citizens. As suddenly as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bad Angel | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...that the post-War reconstruction period has not ended though a decade's years have intervened since Nov. 11, 1918. Critics & others, sated with many a propagandrama for or against hostilities, frequently have wished for a pact to outlaw war as an instrument of national amusement policy. But let no critic ban war or dressmaking or boxing or any other subject as a playground if playsmiths can use war, dressmaking or boxing to a worthy end, as in this piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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