Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distaste as a public speaker for lateness and the imperious wit with which he could handle it. Three students knocked on the locked door as he lectured in "Johnson and his Circle." He ignored them. They knocked again. The door was unlocked and the three walked in and sat down. Copey glared. "All gall is divided in three parts," he remarked crisply, and then went on lecturing...
Curious, the senior sat down again. "It started last year," he continued, "when I was taking both Chem 20 and Chem 40. Labs every afternoon and after a while I began to imagine that I was an Erlenmeyer flask--Pyrex, you know, and shaped like this," he said as he waved his hands vaguely about...
...voice and read what it means." The earnest student scrutinized card sharps and suckers from Indiana to Chungking-and while he parted them from their cash, some of them came apart themselves. He was at Monty's Place in Worthington the morning a traveling salesman named Jake Moses sat in a "friendly" game and was bluffed out of ten trunks full of shoes. He watched Bones Alverson, a slow-witted farmer, bet his heavily mortgaged land against a traveling tent show, and die of a heart attack when he drew a winning four aces...
...Employer associations can not only pool resources, but also save employers' time and money by bargaining for them. The mammoth steel industry practices a highly useful form of industrywide bargaining, though it boggles at any formal association of companies. After a bad strike in 1946, U.S. Steel Corp. sat down in 1947 with the union and hammered out a contract setting a pattern that the rest of the industry has since followed. In effect, U.S. Steel, biggest and toughest in the industry, negotiates on an industry-wide basis for most of the 22 integrated steel companies; before granting union...
Shear Luck. In Atwater, Calif., Bill Blasingame failed to stop his truck in time at a railway crossing, sat helplessly while a passenger train clipped off the front end up to the windshield; stepped out on wobbly legs...