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Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Let Erratum-Noter Scott glance again at the Michigan Alumnus, find therein the words: "James Good came to Ann Arbor after securing a Bachelor of Arts degree from Coe College at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, his home." TIME referred to Secretary of War Good as Coe-educated. Also the Michigan Alumnus pridefully noted: "Once before as many as three Michigan alumni sat around a cabinet table. That was when Harry M. Daugherty '81/, Edwin L. Denby '96/, and Hubert Work,'82-83, were all appointed by Warren G. Harding. Dr. Work alone of this trio remained over into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Nine men let themselves down rather hopelessly into nine leather chairs around a table at the State Department. One was a Secretary of State with two assistants. One was a Secretary of War with one assistant. One was a Secretary of the Navy with two assistants. Into the ninth chair slid the slight frame of Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium and his country's most inveterate limitation-of-arms conferee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Disarmament | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

WHOOPEE! HURRAH! The legislature has adjourned! Let's all close up and celebrate! At one o'clock this afternoon I shall close my potato chip establishment. I shall hang out my American flags and as they kiss again the air of freedom unpolluted by the foul breath of the legislative bribe takers, the boodlers, the demagogues and the little dictators so drunk with power that they even dare to shout infamously, "To hell with the constitution," I shall retire to the solitude of my home and I shall kneel before the pictures of George Washington, the founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arkansas Whoopee | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Reporter Owen, who wrote himself into a state when an ice slide recently endangered the party (TIME, Feb. 11), this time abstained from hysterics and heroics. Perhaps having heard echoes of the way some of his romantic writings have been received in the U. S., he let Harold June dictate a first-hand account of almost incredible winds in the Rockefeller Mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Antarctic Wind | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...University game, team B, which was defeated last week by team A, turned the tables on their rivals and won yesterday's abbreviated game, 6 to 3. Despite the cool weather Coach Mitchell let his pitchers go the full route, both W. K. Page '31 and E. A. Colpak '29 pitching the entire six innings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL SQUAD IN LONG WORKOUT FOR FIRST FRAY | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

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