Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Huckleberry Finn is not a Ku Klux Klan pamphlet. To drop this book from the textbook list is a shortsighted educational policy. Surely this acknowledged classic presents life in terms universal enough to out-weigh its incidental provincial slants. Let the latter be considered in historical terms and not taken as a contemporary affront...
Purely scientifically, let us take p as the probability of the better team's winning an individual game. According to statisticians, Q=1-p, and A is the average number of games won per Series by losers...
...says he enjoys browsers who like the sort of things that he carries and wishes more people would wander upstairs and just leaf through prints and talk. He finds the students very interested in art, but he wishes that they wouldn't let the awe of art galleries keep them from coming in and perhaps buying something small that they might like rather than cheap prints. "There's nothing like an original...
...government did take over, nationalization schemes came to naught. The chief reason was that if India bought out Tata Steel it would not have funds to finance more steel capacity. The government decided to call in Russian, West German and British engineers to build three government-owned steel plants, let Tata live...
...idea occurs to a lifer named Arnie (Jack Palance), whose brother (also portrayed by Actor Palance) happens to be his dead-ringer. To his brother and his ever-loving wife (Barbara Lang), Arnie communicates his plan: let his brother jump the wall of the prison's industrial area, which is lightly guarded during the night, and hide in a stack of crates. Next night Arnie will hide in the crates while his brother sleeps in the cell; during the night Arnie will dig a man-sized hole in the ground near the prison wall, cover it with boards...