Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armed drivers had better restrict their activities to the sofa or the back seat if the safety of the roads is to be preserved, in the opinion of Dr. Harry R. de Silva. He has recently joined the staff to the University Bureau for Street Traffic Research and will direct a year's study on the cause and cure of accidents from the viewpoint of the individual driver...
...meaning. The dominant militarists remained Japan's actual rulers last week, but the final count showed that the Minseito Party, favored by the Government, had ousted the strong Seiyukai Party from first place. Notably President Kisaburo Suzuki of the Seiyukai Party himself failed to win his old seat. In all, the Minseito won 205 seats and the Seiyukai 174. This meant no more and no less than that, when Japan's militarists reshuffle the Cabinet, a few more portfolios will go to the Minseito, nominally a party which views with disfavor further Japanese conquest in Chinese territory...
Last week Sears, Roebuck & Co. bought a seat on the New York Commodity Exchange. The No. 1 U. S. mail order house had no intention of speculating in rubber, silk, copper, hides, tin, lead, zinc, gasoline or crude oil. Indeed, the prime reason for buying the seat was to make it easier not to speculate in such commodities. According to Sears's Robert E. Wood, the seat was acquired to facilitate hedging operations...
...illustrate what a crew ought not to do as well as what they should do, moving pictures taken from the cox's seat will be shown and commented on. After the meeting tonight all men who are interested will be put in charge of experienced coxes and given instructions twice a week until the river opens. Those who will speak are: Head Coach Whiteside, Freshman Coach Bert Haines, Edward H. Bennett Jr. '37 of the 1935 Varsity, Edward T. White '38, of last year's Freshman, and Edward T. Barker '37, of the Varsity 150-pounders...
...conductor these days, with an opportunity of running experimental trolley bus number 8001 around a specially constructed loop in the Charles River Yard. Between runs, this prize possession is kept inside the shed, but at least once an hour, some accredited conductor is allowed to climb into the control seat and take her for a trial spin...