Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardship at his age of almost 75 years to sit in the sun at an inauguration, hardship to sit in the heated convention hall. The altitude made him short of breath; and the honors that were heaped upon him were arduous. He had to attend receptions, luncheons, banquets without end. One evening, having retired early, he was aroused from his bed at 10 p.m. by two generals sent by the President to invite him to a banquet; and he rose and went. On another evening, though not feeling well, he refused to cancel an engagement to attend the opera...
...immoral to needlessly impair the body's vitality, then lack of sleep is Colby's most prevalent immorality. Students who ought to be firm-nerved, straight-thinking and clear-eyed go through their college course with a perpetual tired feeling, irritable, sluggish-eyed and languid-brained. They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome. They slump dismally into a chair and feed their minds on what takes the least mental effort. They wish that something would happen . . . A few men seem to be able to operate indefinitely on a very little sleep . . . But the chances...
Last winter, unable to sit through "schismatic and irritating" Fundamentalist sermons, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, patriarchal poet-diplomat of Princeton, N. J., gave up his family pew, transferred his worshipping from Princeton's First Presbyterian Church to its Second (TIME, Jan.14...
President Coolidge is said to sit patiently by the vaults of the Treasury, watching the pennies, but his virtuous vigilance is at last rewarded from an unexpected quarter. A dime which he let drop unbeknown, has returned, but not to plague him. The grateful finder ate a hearty meal, went to work, probably as a street car conductor, for he says that he "now has many dimes". The accidental leavings of great men have a magical potency...
...longer will Harvard men be forced to sit in silence and bear the sad drones of the Yale "Undertaker's Song." B. S. Cogan '23, ex-president of the University Glee Club, has written an answer to the melancholy wail which has chilled Harvard spectators at many Harvard Yale football games...