Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Let Son West re-scan the article and observe that TIME spoke of Secretary of Interior Roy O. West's "past affiliations and investments" when stating the consensus of opinion that "it looked very much as though Secretary West's appointment would not be confirmed." This consensus having been reversed by the Senate (TIME, Jan. 28), congratulations to Secretary West...
...ironic. However, as the irony was labored, it was also painful. After enduring for many days the taunts of the Wets, a Democratic Senator from Georgia, who is usually harmless, but who is a passionate Dry, arose and said, yes, more money ought to be appropriated to Prohibition, but let it be the reasonable sum of 25 millions, to be spent as Secretary of the Treasury Mellon saw fit. This was the Harris Amendment.* Supported by all Dry Democrats and some Republi cans, it was altered slightly, passed and sent to the House of Representatives for concurrence. The Administration...
...procession for the past three hundred years. . . . Whenever Harvard needed anything in the years gone by, a friend has always been found in the end. . . . We do not expect a new gymnasium for some time to come, but it is at least right to give people a chance; to let our graduates and friends see that Harvard has depended and will always depend upon them...
...let him wait a little. Then. . . .Joe. I toldya never mind that guy. Ignore him. What's a dirty look? Don't soil your hands on him. . . .So I let him wait a little that guy'll be going pretty soon now and then I gave him the old line about I couldn't afford it. And that's right. I can't, and keep the bus too. Sure I have. Oh, I sold the Ford to Louie before Christmas. And the old man asks me if I want to live at college next year or get another...
...Let us now praise famous men," is the burden of Kipling's song of the glory of teachers of the country. Famous they may be for their service in their own province, but more surely are they famous when they turn their methods of scholarly analysis to the practical problems of state. It was President Eliot who earned the title of "First Citizen of the Land" by his active interest in public affairs. Now we have not one, but many, who might qualify from their double function as university heads and valuable public servants...