Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most of all, he wants to see his old friends and sit quietly with those who have been his pals." Russell Owen in the Times said that he is not through, that he is merely going to stop making public appearances. He will go to San Diego, Calif., to inspect a plane that is being built for him (see p. 28). Perhaps he is pondering another spectacular flight, said Mr. Owen. All this is not very consistent, and the conclusion is that no man, not even Col. Lindbergh, knows what he is going...
There is a game which children play at parties: twelve brats line up eleven chairs and march past them as minstrels play a tune; the object is to sit quickly. In the last few weeks many members of the International Missionary Council, in all corners of the world, picked up their satchels and started going to Jerusalem. Their object was to meet in this ancient town and begin a fortnight's discussion of the problems of enlarging Christianity...
...then newly formed Liberty Bank of America (175 branches). The result was the Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Association with capital of $30,000,000, resources of $115,000,000. The business of its offices, now nearly 300, all in California, requires that one board of management sit constantly in San Francisco, and another in Los Angeles. James Augustus Bacigalupi is president; Lorenzo Scatena, 78, chairman of its directorate. Amadeo Peter Giannini gives it banking advice, in much the same fashion that engineers advise public utilities on their operations...
Several other professors and officers of the University will be present and sit at the tables. These include: Kirsopp Lake, professor of Eoclesiastical History; J. L. Lowes, professor of English; A. C. Hanford, associate professor and dean of Harvard College; C. H. Moore '89, professor of Latin and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; H. J. Hughes '03, professor and dean of the Engineering School; E. A. Whitney '17, assistant professor of History and Literature; G. H. Chase '96, professor and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Creator of Classical Antiquities; Matthew Luce...
...still emotionally prefer Bjornson to Ibsen, while recognizing with gratitude that the fame of Ibsen has "put Norway on the map," for ignorant millions would otherwise scarcely differentiate it from Denmark or Sweden. Perhaps the most familiar tradition of Ibsen is that of an old man who would sit for hours at a bay window of the Grand Cafe in Oslo (then Christiania) staring with unseeing eyes at the bodies of his countrymen but piercing their souls with uncanny insight. His reward is that the theatre-goers of today, who constitute for him "posterity," have already witnessed a greater number...