Word: letting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Princeton, Harvard was the favorite; she no longer is. It has been said that only a touch of adversity is needed to bring out the dormant Harvard spirit. Let us prove the truth of this statement to the world...
...Let Russia work out her own destiny," said Professor Felix Frankfurter '06, head of the Citizen's Committee recently organized in Boston to support the withdrawal of all American troops from Russia, in an interview yesterday. "England and France have withdrawn their soldiers from Russia, leaving only a small force of Americans impotently struggling against all the Bolshevist hordes. We also should make peace with Russia," he continued...
...this will not do. Let us not be afraid of names. If we are to be militaristic let us try the case on its merits and not befog the issue. If universal military training has anywhere proved a guarantee of peace and prosperity, let us know it. If militarism has an odium, let us know that too, and guide ourselves accordingly. J. W. MILLER...
...just such a condition that the traditions of collegiate major sport would remedy. A man wearing his college let- ter would think twice before allowing himself to be beaten simply because he was weary and out of breath. A little more of the never-say-die spirit, as promulgated by the collegiate code of honor, would help both the standards of tennis and its popularity with the "red-blooded" variety of sport lover...
...means let tennis be recognized as soon as possible as a collegiate major sport, where it belongs by every law of popularity, of physical demands and of standards of skill, so that eventually the last vestige of that stigma which has so long marked is as "a mere social diversion," will have been removed forever. New York Times