Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution for a committee to sit during the Summer and Fall to investigate campaign expenditures and contributions for and against Presidential and Senatorial candidates...
...that the Prime Minister of this great country may no longer address his fellow citizens. I have for months pointed to the danger; now you see it demonstrated before your eyes. The red flag has come to South Africa, free speech is denied us. Are we going to sit still under this treatment ? I am sure...
...Marx Monument in Red Square, Moscow. On dit in Paris that Manuel, onetime King of Portugal, and the rotund ex-Shah of Persia went to Zelli's famed Montmartre cabaret, drank champagne, talked to the pretty girls. Butted in a sheik-like youth, asked permission to sit down. The monarchs assented graciously, the three talked much and at the time of parting said Manuel: "I am the King of Portugal." "I," said the Shah, "am the Shah of Persia." "Good night, gentlemen," answered the unruffled Frenchman, "The Grand Mogul bids you adieu...
...General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church South, impeccably Fundamentalist and anti-Evolutionist, met at San Antonio. It was chiefly concerned with reviving the ancient doctrine of the scriptural subordination of woman to man, with the repeal of woman's right to sit on its executive boards, with repudiation of the Federal Council of Churches, and with investigation of the alleged liberality of its missionaries in the realms of faith...
...grimly sardonic laugh when he read of the strike of five hundred students of Millikin University, at Decatur, Illinois. The contention, which he defended in "The Goose Step", that most American colleges are run under the influence and according to the malignant desires of the capitalistic classes whose representatives sit on various boards of trustees and governors, seems at least in one instance to have contained a certain measure of truth. The Board of Managers of Millikin University, which derives its income from an estate, refused, among other acts of a somewhat arbitrary nature, to renew the contracts...