Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain star subsidies, Malraux set out to rehabilitate the French theater. At the Comédie Française, he complained, standards had fallen so low that there were only six performances of Racine to 113 of a couple of frothy farces by a 19th century playwright, Eugene Labiche. "Let us have Labiche," said Malraux tolerantly, "but not at the expense of Racine." From then on, as Paris-Presse put it, the lines were drawn between " 'Kid' Labiche v. 'Battling' Racine." Malraux snatched the Odeon theater out of the clutches of the weary...
...half months after Gene had begun his idyll, there was a Faculty meeting. When the discussion became dull, four professors who were sitting next to each other started to gossip. Each of them, it turned out, had Gene Robertson in his class, and knew of Gene's defection. "Let's visit him," one said. "When the boy meets us in person, he will see the light." "Knowledge is a wonderful thing," they told each other incidentally, "and we will (and have and shall for evermore) tell him what is important...
...steady stream of American-style pepper talk until he learned that tradition allows only the captain to chatter encouragement. On defense, his jarring, head-on football tackles flattened any opposing player he seemed to suspect of having the ball, having had it, or about to get it, but he let the play get away time and again. Sniffed the Oxford Mail: "The subtleties of positioning have escaped him so far. His tackling was far from classic...
Each generation has a touching faith that its ditties have just been invented. The rhyme "House to let, apply within/ Lady turned out for drinking gin" was standard in 1892. The Opies have collected it as far away as Australia and South Africa, but little English girls are sure that no one else has ever heard it. When they sing a modern hymn to Cinemactress Diana Dors, none dream that it comes straight from a 60-year-old original, "Lottie Collins has no drawers...
...these danger points as fast as copper can, but it does not permit nearly as much heat to pass through it. A Pyrographite nose cone, for instance, spreads the heat of air friction over a large area and permits it to be radiated harmlessly away, but it does not let heat strike through the cone and damage the sensitive instruments or warhead inside...