Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sovereignty of Chicago. But with Admiral Plunketts and their British prototypes allowed free rein, the eventuality becomes possible. In 1908, it has been pointed out, Winston Churchill found the possibility of Anglo-German hostilities incredible; now twenty years later the same is logically time of the present situation. Let the two countries in a foment of patriotism be awakened to a mutual distrust, and immediately their circles of honor will widen. Clouds will gather over the mountains that were molehills: rumour will be bandiod about once more in the streets: and the papers will play the overture to another stupid...
...that a certain social status in the outside world is essential to election in certain societies." In the matter of manners he only suggested the state of affairs described by the widely touted Miss Cabot, and invested them with a gay cameradie. In point of morals, however, Mr. Duffus let himself pass judgement. His is the opinion, now becoming widespread, that the undergraduate is no better or worse than his predecessors, that he is "fundamentally sound." The student here at Harvard is credited with no Freudian repressions while studying. "Even now the Harvard boy conspicuously ignores the feminine intruder, though...
...justice to the "big brother" let me hasten to add that there were exceptions to this wholesale disappointment. Girls getting $12 or less per week are reported to have received a half week's extra pay to gladden their Christmas. This munificent consideration was extended to all $12 employes (it is reported) except one girl in the insurance department who was consoled by the explanation that the insurance department was not really a part of the paper and was at most only temporary. . . . A. LOWEMANN...
...Congressman, four years (1921-1924) chairman of the National Democratic Committee. The purpose of the Hull candidacy is to keep Tennessee from fighting too bitterly in the primary over Prohibition or, perchance over Roman Catholicism. The third or fourth ballot at the national convention is time enough to let some state electorates know for whom they really voted...
...manufacturers have found that Russia is in a buying mood for mining and oil equipment, agricultural machinery, binder twine, live stock, chemicals, metals, rubber, cotton, adding machines and typewriters. The Amtorg Trading Corp.* of Manhattan let it be known that business with the Soviet Union has been booming, that shipments reached a total of $31,199,834 in 1927, as compared with $8,681,412 in 1926. The All-Russian Textile Syndicate Inc. of Manhattan reported that its exports amounted to $42,000,000 in 1927, against $33,000,000 in 1926. These two companies handle the bulk...