Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ingenious lawyers; but when it gets them by the sacrifice of lawyers with human understanding and a layman's common sense, there is no gain. Perhaps no better expenditure could be made by the state than to attract with large salaries the right kind of legally trained men to sit as judges in the Small Claims Courts or Domestic Relations Courts...
Would sometimes sit upon...
...recent months the growing volume of criticism from across the water, and with an apologetically guilty conscience we have bowed our heads and accepted the just complaints of our recent allies. Immediate hope of American participation at the League council table is at an end. Are we going to sit back, at a time when our help is most needed to assist in the reconstruction of Europe, and withhold that help?--and do nothing? It is not the American spirit to quit. And from a Harvard man who is now in Europe comes the statement of the true feeling which...
...last on the way to becoming fact. Long have the golfers and tennis players in the Bay State Been deprived with Puritanical ardor of the exercise and recreation so much needed after a week of indoor work. Those how religiously go to church every Sunday and have had to sit all afternoon before an open window, with Plato's "Republic", before them, will no longer have to simulate long "dries" or back-hand "volleys...
...that some professors fail to establish any bond of common harmony whatsoever between themselves and the students who sit under them day after day throughout the year? The discipline of the class may be perfect, and the erudition and scholarly perfection of the professor unimpeachable, and yet there is a bond of common interest which is wanting, and which would mean success instead of failure with many an unprofitable hour spent in the lecture-room...