Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business or professional life. He will not be able to impress his personality immediately on great numbers of experienced men; he will not be able to achieve the millenium in a minute; he will have a hard time making even desirable changes. It will be slow work. Anybody can sit at a desk and create Utopias ad lib. We must remember that the law stating that momentum equals mass times velocity applies as well in politics as in physics, and that a man speaking for a million voters, the leader of a great party, can not always move as rapidly...
...dean", were an exception happening only once or twice, a term, the inconvenience of the delay would make no real difference; but occurring as it does daily, the long wait is coming to be regarded as the rule. Anyone called to the office has reason to expect to sit in line from fifteen minutes to an hour and a half,--and then sometimes fail of the objective. There is no way at present of reserving a place in the line, and a man would rather waste an hour with five in line ahead of him, than give up his place...
...second, promised that none of them will week or obtain any concession which will violate this principle. The nine Pacific nations have pledged themselves to lay bare every agreement of any kind which they may have with the Chinese government. They have provided further that an international commission shall sit in China to pass upon all future requests for concessions and exclude any which may be in violation of the Open Door...
Those who are so ill-fated as to have their surnames begin with W's, Y's, or Z's must sit (if sit at all) in the Fogg Lecture Room, Emerson D, or the New Lecture Hall, some thirty or forty rows to the rear. There is always a restless shifting about of the M's and N's, which to the Y or Z in the shadowland fringe of the lecture room raises just enough counter pulsations in the atmosphere to necessitate a delicate focussing of the outer ear toward the lecturer as a sunflower...
...radio communication. This is the recent development of the radio telephone. The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. and several other large companies interested in the building of radio apparatus, have made use of the radio telephone to broadcast musical programmes and lectures. Every one owning a wireless receiver may sit in his home and hear this. These stations are already working in Boston, New York, Springfield, Mass., Newark, N. J., Pittsburg, Pa., Chicago, San Francisco and various other cities. In Chicago the Chicago Metropolitan Opera is broadcasted, so that thousands hear the entire opera every night...