Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitler-"What's most important is your first contact with the old man. . . . You begin by awaiting him at the end of your famous office in the Palazzo Venezia. You let him walk 100 meters on a floor more polished than ever. It would be best if he fell down and let his umbrella fall two or three times before reaching...
...Let shame say what it will...
...Manchester, England last June a matronly market woman named Mary Agnes Smith, walking with her grandchild, paused at a crosswalk to let motor traffic go by. A lorry owned by Hall & Pickles rumbled from one direction, the motor car of a Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden purred from the other. Right before Mrs. Smith's horrified eyes they crashed. Mrs. Smith screamed to her grandchild to run, then collapsed. She says she has not felt right since...
...Entrepreneur Myers began promoting a deal: let little TVA buy Nebraska's private utility systems outright, finance the purchase by a bond issue of about $90,000,000. Banker Myers tied up with young Paul H. Nitze, a former officer of Dillon, Read & Co., arranged a nationwide syndicate to market the bonds. The first Nebraska utility man Mr. Myers interviewed practically threw him out. But back in Wall Street the holding-company financiers who run utilitydom were seeing the handwriting on the wall in Wendell Willkie's losing fight against big TVA. A few judicious telephone calls soon...
...scholastic world, has been acting up again. Simply because six Canadians on skates managed to put a little rubber puck into a cage with sticks five times to the Blue's twice, one thousand undergraduates violated eleven statutes of the Connecticut Penal Code. Harvard on the same evening let another group of Canadians romp over them eleven times to the Crimson's once, and the Square remained so quiet you could have heard a pin drop...