Word: sit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite as much needed as the old one.' When worn with over-work, he could sit down to write 100 autographs for a fair in Chattanooga;--or, perhaps, go out and walk miles to secure kindness for some old friend troubled with chronic and insuperable need of money...
...choice in his invited guests, yet drove his housemaids to despair by insisting on the admittance of the poorest children in Cambridge to tramp through his study daily or to sit triumphantly in the chair which their little subscriptions had bought for him. This was the man whom we meet to commemorate: this was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...borne out by existing facts. I have talked with several medical men on the subject and their opinion is unanimous in declaring that there is no physiological reason why constant training should be injurious. The English athlete keeps in training throughout the year. True, he does not sit at a training table and gaze with ani mated longing at a cigarette. He does, however, train his body to the best of his ability. If we have sensible training a man can keep in training a life-time without physical harm. The healthiest men I have ever known have been professional...
...Coach Reid this evening at 6.30 o'clock in Young's Hotel, Boston. There will be a few impromptu speeches, and only wearers of this year's football "H" will be present. After the dinner the team will go to the Colonial Theatre to see Ethel Barrymore in "Alice Sit-by-the-Fire...
Applications for boxes will be received until January 30 from men wishing to sit together in groups of from 8 to 10, and boxes will be assigned in order of application...