Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Let the suit be dismissed, he said, for Illinois had done nothing illegal. The water diversion permit, which expires at the end of 1929, was properly issued by the Secretary of War who had been properly empowered by Congress, with which lies ultimate authority over national domain and waterways. Should Illinois overstep her legal permit, let the Great Lakes States then sue again. Before the permit expires and necessitates a fight in Congress, let Chicago perfect its water-purification so that diversion can be dispensed with; or let weirs be built in the Niagara and St. Glair Rivers to compensate...
...militia withdrew to await the arrival of tanks, airplanes, one-pounders. Snipers watched the cellhouse windows the rest of the afternoon. Warden Smith, who safely left and returned to his office after dark, warned the prisoners that he could flood the cellhouse and drown them all. He offered to let them march out in peaceable surrender. They refused...
...Right Honorable Members, grown restless, welcomed a diversion caused when the electric light circuit of the House was interrupted for more than an hour. The Speaker uttered, for the first time in a decade, an antique command: "Let candles be brought in!" When debate was recommenced by candlelight, jocund Members testified to the inconsequence of the proceedings by blowing out the candles as fast as they were lighted, until it became necessary to adjourn the House while electricians tinkered...
...operative, gives to Hungarian undergraduates the right of "self government," and prohibits the municipal police from entering university property. Only the national army police may make. arrests on a Hungarian campus; and they were not ordered out last week by Count Bethlen, a cold, closelipped, bony statesman inclined to let Conservatives and anti-Semities have loose rein...
...let me pray," said Father Projuarez huskily, when he was led out. As General Cruz nodded, the priest fell on his knees, clasped a crucifix to his breast, prayed briefly. Rising, he walked resolutely to the garden wall, turned his back upon it, and extended his hands in the gesture of benediction, crying: "May God have mercy on you all!" An instant later the listening crowd outside heard three crisp commands: "Ready . . . Aim . . . Fire...