Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...let us suppose that necessarily there must be economic warfare between Germany and ourselves. There may be some competition, but competition is a thing on which we have thrived in the past. In my view, there is room both for Germany and ourselves in the trade with these countries and neither of us ought to try to obtain an exclusive position there...
...great arboreal Frenchman, Segonzac. Morris Kantor, who does not even try to paint in Manhattan or any place that is "emotionally overpowering." and never anywhere on grey days, eschews Surrealist or other theorizing and thinks the best way to get U. S artists over their self-consciousness is to let them alone...
...Herbert Aaron, medical consultant of Consumers Union, believes that the constipated have streamlined plumbing and persuasive advertising to thank for their troubles. For more than a year he has been writing witty, scientific polemics in Consumers Union Reports against ill-shaped toilets, powerful, habit-forming laxatives. Last week he let the general public in on the "confidential information" of Consumers Union, incorporated his articles in a popular, well-documented book.* Practical hints...
...Sheep Run (by Raymond Knight) tells of a sentimental Broadway columnist who goes back, after 25 years, to the home town he is always ballyhooing in print. Both he and the audience are very much let down...
...notwithstanding Grandma's hard-bitten highmindedness, Bertha Damon remembers her with affection as well as amazement. One of her most touching memories recalls how Grandma Griswold, then 96, apologized just before she died. She apologized for two things: 1) for having refused to let Bertha have pets and 2) for having all her life lacked will power...