Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high privilege to sit as a member of this convention. . . No one can ever question your title as patriots. No one can ever doubt the place of affection and honor which you hold forevermore in the heart of the nation. . . You saved civilization from a gigantic reverse. Nobody says now that Americans cannot fight...
...Board with Dean Pound will sit Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, the representative of Great Britain, and Dr. Nearincx of Belgium, the neutral member. Under the treaty terms of 1912 the Board decides disputes between this country and Great Britain concerning matters of a pecuniary nature...
...chests and proclaim conventional errors. The very orthodox will pray with covered heads and unshod feet in their humiliation. Children will play with apples spiked with cloves; men will sniff snuff; women will surreptitiously hold vials of heart-strengthening aromatics to noses. Behind screens, separated from the men, will sit the women of orthodox congregations. After their day of fast they must go home to cook the evening meal. (In synagogues of modified orthodoxy women are not screened off; in reformed temples families sit together...
...students who go to sit at Mother Oxford's ancient knee frequently find themselves embarrassed by lack of the right sort, and extent, of preparation. The same applies to U.S. students entering other English universities, to many entering U. S. institutions. These facts, and the fact that many U.S. parents long to give their sons "a year abroad before going into business," have encouraged the organization of a preparatory school at Oxford, of and for Americans only, by Professor Edgar C. Taylor of Washington University. Himself a former Longfellow Scholar at Oxford (from Bowdoin), Prof. Taylor will employ both American...
...student who is willing to sit through a year of professorial vaudeville may emerge from this trial by fire with a valuable residue of knowledge. For more than 30 weeks he must submit to being talked at by ten or more professors, to adjusting himself weekly to a new style of delivery, and to winnowing his over crowded note-book for the handful of good grains...