Word: lets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost completely stripped, protected from the interested gaze of strollers who might happen to glance up at the House roof. Here he could surrender himself to the rays of the hot sun--allow these rays to suck the energy out of him until he was their debilitated slave, let them gradually numb-his senses until he felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that the burning tin touched his bare shoulder, sending a delightful spasm of pain through his core, he could...
Sing Sing Prison officials let it be known that Gertrude Sheldon Whitney had visited her husband, Richard Whitney, three times since his two-week probation ended on April...
...Donald Douglas was a young Annapolis midshipman who preferred sailing on the Severn and making model airplanes to studying navigation and naval tactics. One day Midshipman Douglas climbed to the second floor of the Naval Academy dormitory, let fly a glider he had built. The toy banked, swooped, hit a passing admiral on the head. The result: Donald Douglas left Annapolis abruptly, next year took up the study of aeronautics at M. I. T. After his graduation he worked for Glenn L. Martin, then one of the foremost U. S. airplane designers. First he was an engineer, then...
...Bickerings have gone on ever since with no results. Last week TVA and the city of Knoxville joined in offering $7,500,000 for most of the electrical properties of the company, a million and a quarter more than the previous offer. Simultaneously, TVA Director David Lilienthal let it be known that TVA may limit sales of its power to a definite area, that it was considering buying up Commonwealth & Southern's private lineage in this territory. Apparently all that remained was for Wendell Willkie and David Lilienthal, who call each other by their first names, to work...
...gypsies, Earth Memories is not the best example of Powys' writing. But its shortcomings are more than redeemed by Critic Van Wyck Brooks's eloquent introduction to the book, which pays a high tribute to Llewelyn Powys the writer, a higher tribute to Powys the teacher. "Let no one suppose," says Brooks, "that Llewelyn Powys is merely another nature-writer, eloquent, observant and persuasive. He has something to say to this age of despair and darkness, an age in which writers in all the tongues of Babel repeat that life is futile and worse than nothing...