Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been no way of expressing that identity. When there is trouble the owners have been inaccessible ' to us. They were to be found in Wall Street, no matter where the road in question was located. So we decided to buy into 'Wall Street.' Now we can sit at the same table with these men and talk things over...
Tomorrow. The class will march to the Yale-Harvard baseball game on Soldiers Field, where they will sit together...
Whateven the verdict of the experts, there is still, a great deal of virtue in the old-fashioned variety of study. It is easier to sit in a comfortable chair and let the mind roam to the far reaches of a subject than it is to attempt to learn formulae, memorize passages from the great authors of the past or dig deep into abstract principles. But the former is profitless unless it rests on the firm foundations of the latter. It is true that the great inventions of the age are the children of imagination, but the automobile, the flying...
...they went. Each monster stared about him through one enormous glassy eye. To their heads were attached trailing rubbery tubes like skeins of attenuated umbilical cords, stretching down to them through the sea from an unknowable parent whose broad bulk rocked gently. For long periods, the monsters would sit motionless on brilliant mushrooms of coral, letting light-obscuring shoals of fish swim over and about them. If an inquisitive shark or surly moray sidled up, the monsters shuffled silently over to a cage near by, entered, fastened the gate behind them, dumbly gave back stare for stare through the wire...
...there any effort made to effect a change. Social intercourse is entirely a matter of individual option, and the men who sit beside us in classes have no more idea of how we lead our lives than we have of how they live. Then, too, there are many older men, frequently married, who have turned to Law after a few years in business, the ministry, or what not. It must be apparent that such conditions are a radical change from the Williams environment...