Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than this crimp in Recovery, however, which caused President Roosevelt to intervene more directly and urgently last week than he has in any strike since he entered the White House. In Flint, after the riots and injunction against sit-downers which began the week (TIME, Feb. 8), the Motor War of 1937 threatened momentarily to explode in the bloodiest labor battle of U. S. history...
...Thirdly, can unions continue to have what Mr. Justice Brandeis called "practical immunity from legal liability," can they stave of, even in such instances as the present, incorporation or at least some sort of public supervision? The answer to all three questions was "yes" in the recent strike. The sit-down technique proved effective and invulnerable and will undoubtedly be tried increasingly in similar labor disputes...
...raining now and it will rain tomorrow. But it is a gentle rain that falls on Oxford, and the grass is always green and many flowers are still in bloom and the air is brisk and healthy and noses are cold and red. And so here I sit in my room (nearly the size of the Dunster Common Room) with only a small coal fire for heat. It is no wonder that I'm wrapped up in an automobile blanket and an umbrella over my left shoulder. No, there's not a leak (I' m not on the top floor...
...significant that President Lowell who so often said that this is the "age of advertising" should live to see Harvard's men of learning go on the air along with Chase and Sanborn and Dainty Dot Hosiery. The days are gone when Santayana could sit in his cloister and ponder upon the mysteries of the universe. Now he is known to every stenographer as the author of "The Last Puritan," soon to sell for $1.69 a copy at Liggett's. Those members of the faculty who find themselves unable to write, and shudder at the thought of President Conant...
...hitherto proved recalcitrant to his demand for dictatorial sway. And an interesting commentary on the whole performance is the tomb-like silence from the Harvard Law School, where a group of influential and honorable men, instead of running to the defence of tradition, are indulging in a little sit-down-and-wait strike of their own. For Caesar is ambitious, and the honorable men find it profitable to play on his team...