Word: let
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...difficult thing to attain and one that very few of the impersonators of Karl Heinrich have gained--the speeches and the episodes that the play gives him helps to bring it. Slowness of pace was the short-coming, almost inevitable with a foreign tongue that made momentary gaps and let the interest for the instant...
...Leslie has been improving steadily. At the first of the spring season, he let his shoulders jump up in the air in the first part of the recovery; now, however, he has remedied this to a large extent and gets a cleaner, more even finish. He is still a trifle stiffer than the other men in the boat...
...that time Lachelier was awakening an ardor for metaphysical enquiry, while Taine and Ribot promoted experimental psychology. The followers of the former aimed to draw all the philosophical views from science that it would yield and still let philosophy retain its relative anatomy; the latter class intended merely to apply scientific treatment to philosophy, and so make philosophy one of the positive sciences. The former class comprises rationalists, contingentists and intuitionists, the latter was composed of men who treated the different parts of philosophy scientifically and of savants...
...many crevices to fill in with the smaller groups, and as the facilities of Holworthy are inferior in some respects to those of the other buildings. The answer is, if a man wants to room in Holworthy--the only building which will be practically monopolized by large groups--let him organize a group, and so stand with the rest an even chance of getting the room upon which he has set his heart. For certainly no Junior is so solitary that he cannot find 13 men to apply with him who will be fully as congenial as those...
Under such conditions the elms are doomed within five years, but it is possible that they may be saved by an extreme pollarding. This, of course, would forever destroy the grace and beauty of the trees, and the question is whether to let them die in their present condition or to attempt to preserve them at the expense of what beauty they still retain...