Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contacts. The Interparliamentary Union is the great exception. In Paris, on Oct. 31, 1888, a few French and British legislators assembled unofficially to promte the cause of international arbitration treaties. They decided however, to treat of other matters as well, and invite the legislative representatives of other countries to sit with them. In June, 1889, the first meeting of the Interparliamentary Union was held and meetings have been held every year since except during the War. The object of these unofficial meetings is "to unite in common action the members of all parliaments constituted in national groups to secure...
...Walker's personal character, when it has been submitted to minute analysis, is such that his opponents mark him unfit to sit in the Mayor's chair. The opinion is general that a man of Walker's strip is unthinkable for the chief magistracy of the greatest city in the world...
...went in to sit around the great table in the Cabinet room. What passed there in the bosom of the happy family is not of public record. But the President's "spokesmen" vouched that it was not of great moment?rather a general accounting of the ten sons' stewardship to their father...
...said the King. "Vin ordinaire like the rest of you. Sit down everybody...
...farmers found themselves more prosperous than last year and they found the catalog correspondingly fatter. It contained 700 pages measuring each 9 x 13 inches. It contained - very like its predecessors-marvelous pictures of skirts, of trousers, of miniature railroads, of horses ready to ride, of chairs ready to sit down in, of frenzied wallpaper, of tombstones, of everything. And the prices? A mere $3.17, or $22.45 including wrapper...