Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...batting eyes before their journey to Jungletown on Saturday when they travel to seek revenge for the beating they suffered in the first game of the Big Three series. The choice of Bok for the mound assignment may furnish some basis for comparative scores, for it was he who let the Tigers garner nine hits to win the Princeton-Williams encounter...
...again back at the incessant navigating with Bennett at the wheel. I could not let up for a single minute. I was putting every ounce of my mind, energy and knowledge into making our course so straight that we could not deviate half a mile from the imaginary line. ... I was sighting so constantly on the bright, sun-lighted snow beneath us that my right eye began to show the first symptoms of snow blindness...
Jockey Albert Johnson, up on Bubbling Over, sat in the winner's circle with a bunch of American Beauties in his arms. Owner Bradley,* the richer by $50,075 for the Winner's stake alone, let Mayor Walker of New York present him with a golden cup. Bubbling Over had won by five lengths; Bagenbaggage was second; Rockman third...
...Railroad. Last week the directors of the Northern Pacific Railway prepared this table of their earnings for the past ten years, and let it speak hopefully to their 37,322 stockholders and ominously to political monkeys who would tamper with railroading...
...devil's advocate again. It is hard to believe that a man endowed with sympathy could not find, even in "Vandalia", where Mr. Boas' professor fell on such rocky soil, people with vivacious minds, and to be sure that the fault did not lie chiefly with the professor who let bluster over-awe him. Evidently people were to him no even book, and he never passed beyond the title page...