Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical Latine author extempore, and make and speak true Latine verse and prose, suo et aiunt Marti; and decline perfectly the paradignes of nounes and berbes in the Greek Tongue: let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the College...
...unexpected climax as legislators stirred drowsily in their seats in the Kansas senate chamber, waiting the noon recess. One Edgar Bennett, State Senator, rose, called up a resolution petitioning Congress to cut off Federal road aid. Yards away, one Ben Hegler protested, picked up the nearest object at hand, let fly with the eye and arm of a veteran baseballer. His colleague, Senator Bennett, ducked, startled; in the very centre of his bald head splashed vehemently a wet sponge...
...Baldwins returned to their limousine a group of miners and their wives collected in half-hearted fashion. A woman, the wife of a miner still trapped in the mine, pointed to the Baldwins and suddenly shrieked: "Murderers! Murderers!! You won't let them rescue my Tom . . . you-you rich beasts...
Last week the High Court at Weimar found Herr Graefe guilty of malicious slander, sentenced him to three months in jail. Indignant friends of Dr. Stresemann explained once again that his wife has a rich bachelor brother who delights to open his purse and let Frau Stresemann entertain herself, her friends, Dr. Stresemann's friends, at lavish semi-official functions quite beyond the Stresemann means...
...caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) were still the U. S. rule for trading in wheat, corn, rye, barley oats and like grains, then Armour Grain Co., or anyone, might play David Harum* to the detriment of farmers, millers or brokers. But the U. S. Department of Agriculture has long sought to keep grain transactions honest; and so Secretary William M. Jardine was "tremendously interested" last week to learn that Banker Edward Eagle Brown of Chicago, as arbitrator, had ordered the Armour Grain Co. to pay $3,000,000 to creditors of the now dissolved Farmers' Cooperative Grain Marketing...