Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trunk forward as the leg muscles lower the body onto the chair. Do not start to sit down with the feet together. This "closed foot position forces the trunk into an extreme diagonality [and] brings the buttock mass into unbeautiful prominence. It protrudes as if searching for the seat...
Under Bingham's plan, any rink that would be built would seat considerably less than the 5,000 advocated by the report and would be mainly for practice and intramural teams. Intercollegiate games would be continued to be played in the Arena or Garden which alone can seat the crowds that attend the big games...
...legendary incident which occurred before Illinois passed its law legitimizing the supply of cadavers to schools, and which many a Chicago doctor likes to relate. Two students of what is now Northwestern University snatched a body from a Wisconsin cemetery, dressed it, propped it between them on the seat of their buggy. On the way back to Chicago they stopped at a tavern for drinks. While they were inside two Rush (University of Chicago) medical students drove up on their way to snatch another Wisconsin corpse. Quick-witted, they transferred the Northwestern cadaver to their buggy. One drove away...
...seems that at the first show of a new picture he occupies this exclusive seat. Should Gable articulate too loud, he buzzes once; should Harlow's whispers be too soft, he buzzes twice. On the pad a complete record is kept on the nature of the scene, on the intensity of sound. Next performance, the projection man follows instructions on a typewritten sheet...
...Belgium's Parliament. He ordered one of the 21 Rexists in the Chamber of Deputies to resign, forced the Government to announce a by-election, nominated himself a candidate. From smart young Liberal Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland came a gallant countermove. He decided to resign his own seat, declared that he himself would oppose Rexist Degrelle "as a non-partisan candidate," then hurried off to the Royal Palace to confer with King Leopold III who fixed April 11 for the contest. Declared the Premier: "I do not intend to campaign by radio. No candidate will resort...