Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Please let Will Rogers comment on Scorpio's fate. Anyway, I note that by being born at 12 p. m. Feb. 19 I just made Charles Darwin's star and missed W. J. Bryan's by a comet's hair. Whew...
...used to shuffle cards like this," he said, "in a wash basin. It's such fun. You let your fingers roam down through them till you feel a big flat book. Then you make a wish. Like this, for instance...
...Department of Fine Arts has been able to produce? The sketches also struck a responsive chord in me--particularly a small sketch hidden away on page 289, untitled, unadorned. There is no use in going over the whole number in these columns, they suit better their natural habitat. Let the Jester mourn. When he does, we can smile; it is only when he is rioting in mirth that we cannot appreciate him. He has done a good job--let him mourn
...Let me tell you the best story I ever heard, even if it is no me. This chap was one of those who think it the thing to go a-visiting the instructor, making throaty suggestions about the mark he has received. I remembered the fellow from midyears. I therefore told him, when he asked for my office house, that on such a point as this he must see the professor, who would, I knew, send him back to me. I knew, by the way, that the professor was already on his way for a sabbatical study of Chinese temples...
...facts and situations is constant throughout life. With this in view, to ground him in facts, to give him tools with which to work, would seem the logical means of education. True, an intelligent tutor or stimulating lecturer can often awaken the dormant perceptive and critical faculties. But to let them play unconfined over impossibly wide fields of knowledge for several years, without any strict disciplining of the retentive powers, which are susceptible to improvement, appears but a waste of time. And this is the widely heralded tendency of a humanistic education whose graduates are deplorably inferior in actual knowledge...