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Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interested to know that I have voted for the presidential candidate whom I thought would win for over 30 years-and the only one who ever let me down was Teddy Roosevelt, the time he ran as a "Bull Moose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

This year I am voting for Al Smith and I will bet you a 10 years' subscription to TIME that I won't be let down. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Let TOM LENNON of July 30 change his name to Izzy or Hortense if he can't stand the gaff. I've spent a lot of time and money making my front handle stick and welcome any notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...government crutches. Always it is a hazardous gamble, depending on the turn of a tide or a rainfall in Russia. Scientists would make the farmer see his farm not as a source of food alone but as a vast storehouse of potential petroleum, paint, tiles, silk, synthetic lumber. Let him turn oat chaff, cottonseed hulls, corncobs into money to buy Fords, phonographs. New Products. Professor Orland Russell Sweeney, of Iowa State College, called the Corn Belt a great sponge soaking up the energy of the sun. Nowhere else in the white man's world is there another such trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Farmers' Friends | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...senorita because she has one-half Spanish blood in her. They can say she has famed "It" because she has often appeared on the screen without very many clothes (Male and Female). They can suspect her of fickle loves (Sprinter Charles Paddock). They know she is ath-a-let-tic by the way she bounces around on the screen. She may be classified somewhere between a capable actress and a capable clown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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