Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long run." Perhaps that is why numerologists, crystal-gazers, table-tippers, ouija-board-pushers, rhythmical dancers and all-round yogis stop at nothing in time, space, mind or matter. Then there is the New World Water Cult, with rooms in New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland, whose members sit with their bare feet in hot water and with cold wet towels around their heads, concentrating on questions for the Water Master to answer...
Student agitation has now exceeded all normal bounds and the mass meeting stage is reached. After numerous suggestions and petitions have been over ridden, the most beautiful, the most popular, the most industrious of all Bryn Mawr May Day Queens is privileged to sit down in a chair for which honor no one will deny she has walked enough...
...Senate approved the Norris Resolution. Thrice the House remained static. Last fortnight the proposal to exterminate "lame duck" legislators and executives passed the Senate again, 67 to 6, and was sent to the House. It provided that Congress shall meet every year on January 4; that Congress shall sit every other year until through its business and at least until April 30 in the years between; that Presidential inaugurals shall be moved up from March...
...situation might be remedied, he said that "If you insist on leaving tinder lying around you cannot tell who will strike the spark and set it off. It is our business to remove the tinder. This is the one question in which public opinion is important. We cannot sit by paralized and watch. There is a lack of government instrumentality; the Secretary of the Navy talks about armament, while Kellogg is ready to work internationally...
There are large numbers of people (and the writer includes himself in this category) to whom any sort of lecture or sermon is a well-nigh intolerable infiction, and if one is compelled to sit still while somebody continuously talks on a subject which one can more comfortably read for oneself, one develops an attitude of mind resistant to all influence...