Search Details

Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Mindszenty's tormentors the Pope said: "Let us all pray . . . that those who rashly dare to trample on the liberty of the Church and the rights of human conscience may at length understand that no civil society can endure when religion has been suppressed and God, as it were, driven into exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: When God Is in Exile | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...village of Nakago, a bluff old man with a Dewey mustache said: "The food is not good now-but still people do not die off. Will the peace conference let Japanese migrate abroad? As things stand now, there seems nothing to do but go somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: IN RURAL JAPAN | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Then he sued the vicar for libel. In court, Mr. Craven-Sands apologized to Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said to the jury: "Let your verdict be a strong one. Let it be the kill. Let it be the death blow to all these lies and defamations." The jury's verdict against the vicar, whose yearly salary is ?400: ?1,500 damages, and costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: For the Kill | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Stuffy blames spring football for the decline of college baseball. "Most of the big high schools today have at least six weeks of football practice in the spring," he claims, "and at some schools, they say 'let the chemistry master coach the baseball team.' That's why a lot of your college players lack the fundamentals." Like football Coach Art Valpey, Stuffy believes in making sure every player knows the fundamentals. He taught them at Norwich University, Brooks School, and Amherst for 15 years...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Faculty | 2/19/1949 | See Source »

Cummings is far from incompetent with this bread type of comedy, but while he is still learning it is hardly fair of Eagle-Lion Films to bring him into society. Perhaps the most objectionable feature of the film is the repeated use of the infamous "double-take." Everybody in "Let's Live A Little" employs the double-take, with the exception of Hedy Lamarr, who remains ossified throughout...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | Next