Word: sit
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fulfill a distinctly modern function, for our dogmatic critic of today, nursed on the latest of the old diets, will experience a strange sensation in attempting to pass judgment on a series of reels, no matter what their quality. "The Birth of a Nation," however, made us sit up and take notice, and from its appearance on, we have been made to realize that great things were being done in this field of popular pantomime. "A Daughter of the Gods," now playing at the Majestic Theatre, is evidently a production trying to equal the record set by D. W. Griffith...
...place of the regular weekly meeting the St. Paul's Society will go in a body to hear "Billy" Sunday at the service in the tabernacle this evening. The members of the society will sit in the University special reserved section, for which tickets may be obtained at Phillips Brooks House or Hollis...
Several men may be sitting in a room, blue with smoke. With feet on the table they often sit late into the night--just talking. Such talks start with gossip and either degenerate into questionable stories or develop into serious discussions of real problems. It is out of the latter sort of discussion that the greatest and inmost spirit of the American university life breathes...
Through the courtesy of the Athletic Association the committee has been able to make arrangements whereby all the delegates may sit together at the Brown game in the Stadium at 2 o'clock...
...rule college students have favored the shorter night plan. Some believe that they can study better in the evening than during the day, maintaining that there is so much to be done that it seems impossible to spare much time for sleep. Others actually find that they can sit up most of the night and still be fresh and vigorous...