Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Write six Dry mottoes. (Samples: "Let us use alcohol, not waste it." "Law makers must not be lawbreakers." "The Eighteenth Amendment stands for better 'boys and better business." "Is Prohibition a success? Ask the bankers. Ask the Salvation Army. Ask the social workers. Ask the mothers. ASK EVERYBODY...
...able No. 2 man might make his mark on the board but the President knew the board required a No. 1 on it to make its mark. President of International Harvester, Mr. Legge is a No. 1 man to farmers and financiers alike. He was reluctant, but finally let himself be drafted...
More recently (TIME, June 17) contracts have been let to other U. S. corporations-for a 100-million-dollar hydro-electric power plant in the Ukraine (to be the world's largest); for steel mills, coal mines, apartment houses in Moscow, tractor factories at Stalingrad, etc. etc. After 1933, Industrializer Stalin promises, if there is still necessity, to turn to lesser tasks-such as keeping the population supplied with food and clothing...
...gave the controls to the mechanic, who knew but little of piloting, broke a hole in the fuselage bottom, crawled through head first. Hanging by his feet he ingeniously used his belt, a piece of rope and a shoelace to lash the broken gear together. The repair sufficed to let him land safely at Hartford...
...only doll she had was a cannon-sponge on a used fuse-stick, dressed in a soldier's waistcoat." When she grew up she was popular for more reasons than the obvious one. The soldiers said: "She'll die in her shoes, like the rest of us. . . . Let's drink to . . . the black eyes of Julie...