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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibits, no dancing girls, no glimpses of the World of Tomorrow-just a cool roomy place high above the city where he can 1) meet his friends, 2) read his hometown newspaper, 3) write his letters, 4) see television, 5) look at a March oj Time cinema, 6) sit, relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

When the shooting was all over, members rejoiced in the thought that no matter what home-folks think, this autumn there is no election. Some wandered up to the press-galleries to sit in a last pitch-game with newshawks and cameramen, chipping in to send a boy across the plaza for a bottle. Some went directly to Union Station, where wives awaited them on made-up trains. And some took time to total up the spirited 76th's box score: found that this Congress had defied Franklin Roosevelt's will twelve times, knuckled under only four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Blood on the Saddle | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...French high command knows what the French Army intends to do if & when it comes in conflict with the Axis. Best semiprofessional guess suggests it would try to knock the spots off Italy's northern industrial area by air, call up all its 5,000,000 reserves, sit tight behind its Maginot Line and see what happened. A hint in favor of the last course comes from a remark General Gamelin made when asked if the French had considered making an early drive on the German Limes: "What! I do not propose to start the war by a battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Good Grey General | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...gives neutrals a choice between stimulation and stagnation. They can sit at home and count their losses while trade stagnates and costs of living mount. Or they can ride the crest of an economic wave, feeding and arming belligerents-making a gift offering of their wealth as a subsidy to war. They also suffer who do not fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: The Neutrals | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Hollywood, between takes, Cinemactress Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil, is wont to sit aloof and brooding. Metamorphosed by her light-comedy role in her picture-in-progress (Ninotschka), she joined the offset chatter, sometimes smiled right out loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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