Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very close together. Indeed I never knew how close until night before last when they were parted from me here at Ellis Island. I went back to my ship . . . without them. Entering their room on the ship, I found some of their little playthings. I had to sit down and I shook with the realization that the destiny of these children and my own [destiny] are inseparably linked...
Small Balloon. One Leo Stevens rode 350 miles in a 50-pound balloon. Standing in the vaselike basket, too narrow to sit down, he traveled all night from Englewood, N. J. to the vicinity of Saranac Lake, N. Y. Releasing the hydrogen, he put the bag and basket on his back, and walked to the nearest railroad station...
Other Europeans had time to sit up in bed and rub their eyes before reading confirmation of an event which many of them had doubted could actually come to pass...
...opposite where she sat glowering on her porch. Neither spoke. After half an hour he strolled away. Next day he appeared again. Her sociability overcame her ire. "Phwat are ye sittin- on the sunny soid for?" she called. "Because I haven't been invited to sit on the shady side," he called back. She invited him over. He made friends. Before long he had hired her to superintend the moving of her neighbors...
...sometimes they play pinochle or baseball. . . . Once the boys sat up on the front porch of the jail, but they threw too many cigaret stumps* about, so my wife made them stay in the yard. Then they went up on the porch of a neigh bor to sit, but I soon stopped that and told them they must stay around the jailyard. None of them has ever made an attempt to escape." Federal officials, shocked, planned to investigate Sheriff Jackson's jail...