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Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...let these attempts dishearten. Set the mark higher, and ring the bell. For really, if a man, after three years study, cannot compose a clever theme of five words or less, the critics of higher education are to some extent justified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAUGHTY NOMENCLATURE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...actors that have gone on the stage without any training of this sort," explained E. F. Albee, philanthropist and head of the Keith-Albee chain of vaudeville theatres, in an interview yesterday to the CRIMSON "My advice to students is to stick to their studies more, but not to let the play side of their college life be entirely neglected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students should "Stick to Their Studies," But Not let "Play Side" of College life Be Neglected, Holds Albee | 1/7/1928 | See Source »

...above message, handwritten on White House notepaper and dated Dec. 25, was issued far enough in advance to let all enterprising U. S. newspapers reproduce it in facsimile on their front pages on the proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Inventor Sperry also described a compressed air barrage which might have made diving possible during the rough weather. "You take a pipe, perforate it with holes, let it down about 30 feet and then pump air through it at high pressure. The bubbles break up the waves over a limited area of ocean, and it seems to me that the Navy could have continued its rescue work behind that barrage. . . . The Standard Oil Company has done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Off Provincetown | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...given him castles and wide lands, the page humbled her by marrying Agnes von Flavon whose stupidity Margarete disdained, whose beauty made her furious. The bitter, hideous little woman had Chretien killed; and when the Count of Tyrol invited Agnes to her castle, ugly Margarete shut the gates and let him ride off with his hunting companions on tired horses, through a night of rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Dancer's Life | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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