Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seated by the hearth, rocking. You must leave your rubbers in the hall and place your brief cases all in a row and come and sit down by the fire", she said, for she was a clever lady. So three comfortable and cheerful brethren sat by the fire and smoked her excellent cigarettes and wondered. For even a section man may wonder, occasionally...
...short player, "a prayer of thanks giving and praise." There was no choir. Dr. Davison played briefly on the organ. The Harvard men gathered there sang "The Character of a Happy Life," and "The King of Love my Shepherd is." That was all. President Eliot was never content to sit back and look over the past. He was almost to the very end concerned with the future. This was the spirit of the service...
...purchasing it in 1908. However to his eternal credit Major John Jacob Astor, brother of Viscount Astor, purchased the Times from the Northcliffe estate (1922), restored ita long and honorable independence, and has transferred its control in perpetuity to a board on which it is hopei will always sit the Lord Chief Justice and the Governor of the Bank of England...
...saying it except to inform. Unprejudiced in tone, easy in style, the book will last. The Author. As a youth in South Carolina, he chopped cotton with Negroes, played with their children, sold them houses and land. He has sat beside them in classrooms and later had them sit as pupils in his own classes. Trained at the University of Chicago, he is now a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma. For 25 years he has made a thorough study of the Negro problem. No "nigger-lover," no "nigger-hater," Professor Dowd understands darkest America...
...assault with intent to kill." Senior law students will prepare the case against him and carry on the prosecution and defense, junior law students will testify. A real judge from the St. Louis Circuit Court of Appeals will preside; a real jury of "twelve good men and true" will sit in Professor Wheaton's legal workshop...