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Word: lets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athletic Association would let more young Boston boys into football games than it has in the past if the children were well chaperoned," Thomas W. Unverferth '51, co-chairman of the Student Council Welfare Committee, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Urges More Gamins At Grid Tilts | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...Let's have color television now." This seemingly innocent proposition, proffered to the Federal Communications Commission by the Columbia Broadcasting System, has thrown the whole television industry into a frenzy of activity, alarms and bitter accusations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...believe that the whole task of the Church in America is one which must be performed by churches working in unity. Otherwise it will not be done at all . . . The slogan . . . may well be: 'Let those who can, unite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now Is the Time | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Some Atlantans wondered why their censors had let themselves (and censors everywhere) in for a legal wrangle. Lost Boundaries, the true story of a Negro family that passed for white, had played successfully in such cities as Jacksonville and Birmingham. And the day before the De Rochemont suit was filed, Pinky, another Negro-problem film, opened to packed houses and a good press in Atlanta itself, with no noticeable effect on the city's peace, morals or good order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fadeout for Censors? | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...bestseller, Anna and the King of Siam (TIME, July 10, 1944), Margaret Landon let her bucket down into a deep well of Siamese history and personal experience (she was ten years a missionary in Siam) and drew it up full of a sparkling mixture of Eastern fact & fable. Her new book, Never Dies the Dream, is another bucketful drawn from the same source, but though the mixture is as before, most of the first, fine sparkle has fizzed away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Second Spring | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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