Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members. Six is a good number for a poker game, but for a deliberative body it has its disadvantages. Ever and anon, the Board divides against itself−three and three. A short time ago, it so divided against itself on the question of whether a Commissioner might sit in the consideration of a case involving a commodity in which he himself had business interests. The quarrel dragged...
...This was the Syllabus in which the Pope said: "Si quis dixit: Romanus Pontifex potest ac debet cum progressu, cum liberalismo et cum recenti civilitate sese reconciliare et compere-anatema sit." ["Whoever says that the Roman Pontiff can or ought to come to terms with progress, liberalism or modern civilization-let him be accursed...
After a lusty wrangle, Jean Borotra, the oldest French boy, subdued Rene LaCoste, pulled out the men's singles plum. "Vinnie" Richards, feeling better, joined with Francis T. Hunter to sit on R. Norris Williams and Watson M. Washburn (Harvard graduates), until they cried "Down" in the doubles...
Covenant. There was adopted a resolution calling for the appointment of a committee of jurists to interpret Paragraph 5, Article 4 of the League Covenant with a view to determining the rights of members to sit on the Council when matters affecting their interests are being discussed...
...sit obedient at the foot...