Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President let it be known that he would not fill the vacant place on the Shipping Board until it was evident that Congress would not place the Government shipping business under a responsible executive head instead of leaving it under an independent board...
...want to say anything unpleasant. Let me remind you, however, that before you were given the franchise it was urged that woman suffrage would bring purity and cleanliness into public office...
...Let's stop all this speechmaking! Let's get on with the dance! . . . I'm too full for utterance . . . but there's one thing I'd like to say. It is a trifle strong; illustrating what is wrong with your country. Before I tell it, any ladies not feeling very strong had best come and have some, er, ginger...
Young college men and women failing to graduate in the top tenth of their classes (the P. B. K. qualification) should not, however, despair of attaining post-graduate eminence. Let them consider the following college graduates who are not Keymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, J. Pierpont Morgan, Clarence Dillon, Sinclair Lewis, John Hays Hammond Jr., Arthur Curtiss James, William Allen White, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Albert C. Ritchie, Gifford Pinchot, Robert LaFollette,- Edwin Arlington Robinson...
...minds and souls of other men will always turn. Is there a contest between the two ideas? Very likely; but why should there be conflict between those who entertain them, since both sides admit the principle? There is no sound reason for such conflict. The thought of our time, let it lead in one direction or the other, is sincere. It seeks the truth. It desires, as men never desired more resolutely, to solve the problems of the soul. Since all are earnest, why waste time and energy in anger and denunciation...