Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rivers-and-harbors swell to proportions more formidable than ever. The bill provided approximately a $50,000,000 mass of miscellaneous moneys for dredging creeks, bayous, inlets in many states; building bridges; buying canals; and most important of all, for deepening the Illinois River near Chicago to let lake steamers pass down to the Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico. The language of the bill had the effect of legalizing previous diversions of Great Lakes water by Chicago through its drainage canal out of Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. Other states bordering the Great Lakes are fighting this diversion tooth...
...Herriot declared his unwillingness to serve beneath his confrere. M. Briand saw open before him the prospect of continuing indefinitely his struggles of many months to juggle a majority out of fluid and irresponsible Chamber blocs. In effect Aristide Briand threw up his hands, cried: "I am through! Let Herriot see what...
...will not shoot. ... If any gentleman here finds it necessary to take further issue with my honor, let him fire at me. I will not return his fire. I shall not resort to this stupid, inconclusive, and barbaric method of settling a quarrel which has been forced* upon me. I had hoped that because of my services to Poland no Pole would take my life. I have been shot at and missed. Had I shot I would not have missed. But I, for my part, I am unwilling to shoot another Pole...
Wallpaper. The landlord who let his tenant select her own wallpaper, the homeowner who fidgeted while his white-overalled paperhanger butted the paper like a crazy-quilt, the rural housewife who hung her own−they spent $40,000,000 last year, bought 350,000,000 rolls, kept more than 40 U. S. wallpaper manufactories busy. The Wallpaper Manufacturers of America last week noted that this was more than the 323,000,000 rolls of $34,755,000 value...
...Crane is, of course, only joking. She will not "do" anything. Didn't she let Mr. Crane give Nathalia a typewriter for Christmas? Didn't she keep rushing to the encyclopedia at Nathalia's command to look up African flora and fauna for this prose opus? Mrs. Crane knows quite well she can "do" nothing about it if Nathalia breaks out again in the next six years. She is perfectly aware that in the girl flows blood, not only from John and Priscilla Alden, but from "the grand old Spanish family, Abarbanel, who counted among their number...