Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times are ripe, and rotten ripe, for a change," he trumpeted. "Let us rally our forces to the flag of the Constitution . . . inalienable rights of the citizen ... to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience . . . free speech, free press and peaceable assemblage ... the right of each citizen to regulate his own personal conduct...
Dictator Josef Pilsudski let it be known that next month he would travel south, to Italy, to see his old friend Pope Pius XI, onetime (1919-21) Papal Nuncio at Warsaw, and also to see Dictator Benito Mussolini, whom he admires...
Well, folks, here I am back again. Although swelling with pardonable parental pride at the marvellous showing of Joe Jr. last week, I am not going to let him prognosticate for you again this week. Jealousy? Ridiculous! Jealousy is not one of Great-Hearted Joe Forecast's faults. I realize that Joe Jr. won money for keen Harvard business men last week when he predicted Harvard's victory over Holy Cross, though the little rascal didn't give the exact score. He also did well on the other ames except for getting Penn and Penn State mixed up--a natural...
...band should not form the letters of even the smallest college team which invades the Stadium. These manoeuvres between the halves are at best but a gesture, and as such they were better not done at all than done ungracefully. If there are to be bands at football games, let them follow the accepted code of football bands, and return the compliments of rival musicians...
...argued that to honor every visiting band by learning to play one of its tunes and forming the letter on the field would require too much time, let it be pointed out that college songs are no harder to learn than the light, soothing music with which touchdown-thirsty patrons are entertained during dull periods of the game. The Athletic Association has further made things easier by scheduling only seven games that require separate letters, for even the most rabid stickler on form could scarcely object to using the Purdue "P" for the Pennsylvania game. Philologists further point out that...