Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ALASKA: The Presidential fish reservation in Alaskan waters, against which Territorial Delegate Sutherland protested, will continue, according to Secretary Hoover. "Having fitted a lid on the further destruction of northwestern Alaskan salmon," said he, "I intend to sit...
President Lowell also said that debating formed an important part of the English university life. The debating societies sit as a parliament and hold discussions on the important political situations of the day. It happened that at the time he was there the debating unions were discussing the Ruhr situation and after, when he reached France, he discovered the French attitude toward this subject. It resembles that of a man when's head of an industrial concern and who depends for solvency on a debt owed the concern. England told France to postpone the debt for five years. France said...
Visit COMMUNITY BOOK SHOP and look over the shelves. There aren't so many that you will be bewildered. Chairs are handily placed that you may sit and glance through whatever interests...
...imaginative faculties by their very nature. We have seen this ever since the twentieth century began. We had first the motor car with its tremendous enhancement of life. Every man who took a twenty or thirty mile spin had his imaginative range broadened. He had less need to sit by the fire and read an imaginative book. By the time the motor car had ceased to be a novelty, the Great War came on, making all imaginative efforts seem thin and pale. Except to get away from the thought of violence it was almost difficult to read a novel between...
...What is this literary New York? Who are these log-rollers and back-scratchers of whose activities many of us hear, yet whose actuality we are prone to deny? go into the Algonquin some noon. Anyone can do it. Here you will find the famous "round table" at which sit the supposedly elect. Perhaps you will see Brock Pemberton, theatrical producer, whose Six Characters in Search of an Author has been reckoned one of the artistic successes of the year, and who has just produced a dramatization of Julian Street's Rita Coventry. Mr. Adams...