Word: lets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court listened attentively, and agreed to let Steinmann enter a cage of lions, tigers or black panthers("Panthers," said Lawyer Valensi, "are the most ill-tempered beasts"), and prove his courage...
Taking aim all the way from San Francisco, touring Soprano Lily Pons let fly: "New York City is a crowded, dirty madhouse." French-born Lily also knocked Paris fashions. "Zut," she sputtered, "first they are too long, now they are too short. I think the American women wear them best. Me, I'm too petite, always in the middle...
Drawn Bayonets. For 24 hours before the game last week, the bell on the university chapel clanged without let. At dusk on Big Wednesday, the Clemson Tiger was burned in effigy on the State House steps while alert policemen stood by to prevent free-for-alls. There were precedents for their fears. In 1902, the Clemson cadet corps showed up for the game with drawn bayonets. In 1946 the Great Day splashed over into a riot. This time, except for a few Carolina enthusiasts who lobbed rotten tomatoes and grapefruit rinds at Clemson cars, the partisans were on their good...
...church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break forth from God's word and by the love which will not let us go, then 1950 will see a momentous turning point in Christian history...
...whose woollens clothe some of the world's better-tailored figures, have been doing some basic thinking about clothes moths. Last week Textile Expert R. W. Moncrieff told how clothes moths (Tineola bisselliella) got their depraved craving for wool, and how modern chemists are persuading them to let the stuff alone...