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Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...billionth part of one cent to the wealth of the U. S. What they have done is simply to gather up, at enormous expense, the tokens of wealth created by others, pile it up in a heap, dole out small portions of the total to their subscribers and let the surplus accumulate. W. BLENKO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Treasury Department and the office of the Supervising Architect approved the recommendation of the various commissions and contracts were let for limestone in February and March of this year: both of these contracts going to the Indiana Limestone Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...would appreciate it very much if you can correct this error for the reason that the Department of Commerce Building is the largest of the group of buildings and the stone contract is the largest stone contract ever let...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Let me hasten to assure prospective voyagers on the Pacific that they need not trouble themselves to take passage under a foreign flag in order to escape the drought existent here. I have been a frequent passenger aboard Dollar liners, and I have never had to forego the pleasure of my evening cocktail. Though it is true that the ships carry no bars, a few words with the ingenious Chinese room boy and, lo, a bottle of the finest appears?really good, too. Their prices compare favorably with those existing aboard competing liners, prices ranging from three to ten dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...electric day, detailed to keep her indoors, he succumbed to her eerie charm only to be tossed aside when a flash of lightning lured her into the storm. Forced into her room, she moaned and wailed like a caged animal till Joan, unnerved by the noise, unshackled by jealousy, let her out-"a white flame of freedom, blown steadily through the dark rain, carrying with it its own light." Inevitably, hideous lightning struck Lynneth's favorite tree, killed her beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Life | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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