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Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moral: Name the commodity in the slogan. "Let the Ivory Twins do your Work." "When you see an Arrow, Think of Smith Brothers Cough Drops." "If it isn't a Whoozis, It isn't a Whatsitsname...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

With four soldiers clinging to hand grips on the sides of his limousine, and with two more soldiers on the box behind, President Chiang Kai-shek sped to the scene. As the mob of students sullenly parted to let him through, and then closed in behind, Marshal Chiang faced a nasty situation. The so-called "students" are really a conglomeration of all the younger and more violent partisans of the Nationalist regime. They would have to be wooed and harangued, not bluntly ordered to disperse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Treaty Riot | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...diseases listed in his Primitive Physick: or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases is the remedy for "a consumption"-"take a cow-heel from the Tripe-house ready drest . . . two ounces of Isinglass . . . Sugar-candy ... set them in the oven after the bread is drawn . . . let the Patient live on this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fleeing From The Wrath | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...trouble you to let me know the answer to the above question, and if Governor Smith did not receive the largest popular vote, except for Mr. Hoover, will you please state who did and what the figures as to the votes were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...between the hatcheteering and the bricking, W. Harold Lane, chief of Federal Prohibition agents in Kansas City, let it be known that there are more speakeasies in Kansas City today than there were legitimate bars before Prohibition. Federal and State officials put heads together for an enforcement drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Hatchet | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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