Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Let Satirist Streiff suggest a means, other than cancellation, by which international debts might be settled without international bankers...
When TIME errs, the world demurs but TIME and old-TIMERS profit by the misthinks or mistakes. Let none therefore mistake me for a TIME naggler in correcting TIME'S adequate account of Manhattan's Architectural League Exhibition. The small mistake appears in TIME'S reference to "small" Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted for his tall self and tall towers. Lofty-spire-and-pediment-building Corbett stands well over six feet on the bare foot...
...went into the racket in Chicago four and a half years ago. During the last two years I've been trying to get out. ... I want peace. I'm willing to live and let live. I'm tired of murders and shootings.... I'm retired and living on my money...
Pansy, a Negro revue, lasted just three hissful performances. Said Dramacritic J. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: ''Purely for purposes of historical record let this bema announce that the worst show of all time was . . . produced . . . last evening...
Inventor Westinghouse, meanwhile, had been following Mr. Adams' movements and investigating Alternating Current for himself. He was prepared, when the bids were let, to construct AC generators on the Forbes design, and was quick to acknow ledge Mr. Adams' victory when the installations proved successful. The compressed-air plan was scrapped. Alternating Current began flashing from Niagara in volume sufficient to turn every wheel and light every bulb in Buffalo. When Lord Kelvin visited the Falls and signed the visitors' book, he cheerfully saluted the wisdom Mr. Adams had shown in proceeding contrary to the foremost electrical...