Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "The country is beginning at last to take the measure of the Great War President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, and of the greatest Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker. They protected the American Army from political interference. They insisted that promotion should be on merit and let the best man win. And that's what made the American achievement possible." (TIME, Sept. 19). Certainly neither of these gentlemen is what Mr. Bratton calls a "Yes man," and I believe they were in a somewhat better position to know what went on behind the scenes than...
...Coal. Let Congress empower the President to mediate miner-v.-operator disputes when necessary...
Railroads. Let Congress legalize more mergers. They are needed to lower freight rates...
...Everywhere, except in the moral realm, people know that they cannot successfully let themselves go or do as they please." The idea that it is the law of life to let an instinct like the sex instinct go was scoffed at by Mr. Fosdick. "Take the instinct of pugnacity," he said, "which is very deep in us. Well go out from this house now, get nearly run over by a car loose your temper, beat up the driver, batter in his head. How will you explain yourself to the judge tomorrow morning? Will you say, 'Your Honor...
...goes forth from face to face. By the strange law of increase, gladness begets gladness. Remembering then that no frown ever made a heart glad, help us go forth to meet the day with high hope and smiling face; and even though it has not been easy to smile, let us rejoice if so we have been able to add to the sum of human happiness and make burdens lighter...