Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paralyzed was Bendix Products Corp.'s big accessory, plant at South Bend, Ind. one morning last week when most of the day shift employes, sitting down at their machines, refused to work. Just before noon Works Manager John P. Mahoney's voice boomed out over the factory public address system, ordered all employes to check in their tools, go home. Most of the 4,300 workers obeyed, but 1,100 sit-downers...
...bolted backstage for the attendants. Only one attendant could be found, so Casadesus had to help him push back Piano No. 1, bring forward No. 2. While they were straining with No. 1, a leg fell off. Half hysterical, the pianist put it back on. He was about to sit down at the relief piano when an unidentified clergyman seized the opportunity to stride onto the stage, make an impromptu appeal for United Charities. Stunned, the audience let him speak for a few minutes, then booed, hissed, whistled him off the stage...
Telescope Robot. Photographing the spectrum of a distant star, even in Mt. Wilson's giant telescope, may take four or five hours. One of astronomers' most tedious chores is to sit on a lofty, cramped perch at the eyepiece during these long exposures, in order to keep the cross-wires of the telescope centred exactly on the star image. Beautifully accurate as it is, the drive mechanism which swings the telescope along with the star's westward movement cannot be synchronized with absolute perfection. Atmospheric disturbances also may dislodge the star image from the cross-wires. Last...
...leaders called him Edward Ferocious McGrady. But on the main issue, whether the unions should continue to control the hiring halls (supplying any men they see fit to operators who need seamen or longshoremen), neither side gave any concession He did, however, win a promise that both sides would sit down together and begin negotiations this week...
...flutter with the chiming of ten o'clock. That worthy master of slaves, my tutor, sends me to sit in on lectures at the most ill-advised times of the day and night. A stop in the hall to glance at the morning paper and surprised to see the quarrelsome Republicans still flay our popular President. How they groan and tear their hair when they think that Mr. Roosevelt will lead the next Congress around by the ears, like a stable-boy at a Scotch tavern. And into my head march the jolly lines of those talented gentlemen, Messers. Gilbert...