Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best arrive early for the basketball game, for those 2000 seats are going to go early, and if he isn't lucky enough to have one of those valuable little pasteboards for the swimming meet, he might as well not even bother to try and get in but sit back and listen to it over WAAB...
...ensuing weeks it remains to be seen whether Congress members will sit down in the Legislature seats they have won and take the large share of lucrative offices in provincial administration due to them under the Constitution - or whether they will adopt "wrecking tactics." The Constitution was written with both alternatives firmly in the mind of Sir Samuel Hoare. Thus, if the 1,585 Deputies cooperate and join Viceroy Lord Linlithgow in making the Constitution work, well and good. If they resort to wrecking tactics, the Constitution empowers first the provincial governors and ultimately the Viceroy completely to overrule...
...grew furious. II Duce's press thundered that Italy's Royal House of Savoy is justly renowned for the wisdom of Vittorio Emanuele III, added that His Majesty "cannot make other than the correct choice" in deciding whether or not to send Italian Crown Prince Umberto to sit in Westminster Abbey with a black-faced Ethiopian...
Privately all agents agree London will be so jam-squeezed that even Ambassadors in Government cars will have to arise at dawn before the Coronation and reach the Abbey by 7 a. m. at the latest. Millions of Britons will stand, sit, slump and sleep on curbstones not only the whole previous night but in all probability the night before that. Ten thousand tourists will sleep in ships on the Thames...
Said Dean Bigelow of the projected reform: "Our graduates shall be good lawyers . . . with an understanding of the nature of [the] problems and conflicts [of society], what approaches there are to their solution, and some evaluation of the factors evolved in the application of the approaches. . . . The sit-down strike, the State and National legislation that has been produced and proposed in the last few years obviously involve problems to which a merely legalistic approach is not adequate." Added President Hutchins, onetime (1928-29) Yale Law Dean: "We hope to remove legal education from its remoteness from reality...