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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shaw, too, I always found easy, but Barrie was ever a teaser. I remember I learned my part in Captain Brassbound's Conversion in a few days, but how I had to struggle over Alicc-Sit-by-the-Fire. Alice is becoming more wonderful every day. I have my own listening-in set, and with head phones I can hear everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Honors | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...source of the otherwise inexplicable development of the Incas, not many years before native dramatic criticism was permanently established on a simple basis in Kame-Bridge by Hyppopatrot, cousin-germination of the pedantic Kritikos, the first of the Order of Native Kritiks. Their motto is: Here stand we--we sit not otherwise. Kritikly yours, Joseph Robinson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kritisism | 1/9/1925 | See Source »

...reports which have been in circulation, he said that he would take up the matter of making special preparations for the closing meals with President Lowell. He held out hope for a special dinner for the evening, so the crowds who throng the commons tomorrow evening will sit at a festive board which may recall the days of old when delicacies were piled upon the tables for the men of '74 at the first meal Memorial Hall ever served, 50 years before its last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Many Students Planning to Eat Tomorrow at Memorial Hall as Tribute to University Commons on Its Passing | 1/9/1925 | See Source »

...three months in Mexico), but public honor and license such as is unknown even by ball-players and pugilists in the U. S. Wherever they go in public, they are known by their gorgeous dress (black broadcloth, scarlet sash, white hose, shiny pumps). It is an honor to sit with them in cafes, to speak with them or be owed money by them. After a fight, the town they are in is theirs? wine and women complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toreador | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...same men but they are the same sort of men. An endless parade of enchanting creatures appears on the covers ? Harrison Fisher girls, W. T. Benda girls; an endless company of interestingly dressed and undressed lovers and haters pant, clutch, embrace, struggle, strike, stare, pose or sit pensive and forlorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sequelae | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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