Word: letts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lett, assistant Professor of Geology, leaves tomorrow for Charleston, S.C., where he will carry out revolutionary experiments on the seismic method of determining geologic structure...
...Usually," said Lett in an interview yesterday, "oil wells are used commercially or are otherwise made unfit for scientific study. This is the chance of a lifetime...
President Alberts Kviesis still ruled with the help of his military ally, Col. Jacobson. Charles Ulmanis succeeded bustling Adolfs Blodnieks as Prime Minister and General Janis Balodis again took over the Army. Gloomiest fact to the Lett-in-the-street was that no alcoholic beverages could be sold for two days. Suspicious correspondents, not at all satisfied with the obvious instigators of Latvia's dictatorship, spotted the shadow of Adolf Hitler behind President Kviesis and his officers. Beyond the Polish Corridor and East Prussia, the Eastern shore of the Baltic is edged with little countries born...
What small chance the U. S. team then had left to win the Davis Cup back from France in this week's challenge round, stayed alive for one more day. George Lott and John Van Ryn played magnificently against Perry and George Patrick Hughes. With Lett's service dominating the play, they won their match 8-6, 6-4, 6-1. The first of the two singles matches that followed, between Austin and Allison, was close and exciting but Austin, against an opponent who seemed worn and overtrained, had speed enough...
...STRANGE CASE OF PETER THE LETT -Georges Simenon-Covici, Friede ($2). Inspector Maigret, mystified by duplex identity, spurred by sorrow, exhibits super-human activity, and bags...