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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week he could sit back and smile as sheets of lignin plastic, made from the residue after vanillin had been extracted, rolled off the machines. Marathon officials described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Ex-Nuisance | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...vault with the parish house springing out at right angles from the apse. As simple and logical inside as out, the church's altar of native Kasota stone is focused by radiating rustication. The auditorium's only gadget is useful: a glass enclosed gallery where mothers may sit with infants likely to cry. Dedicated three weeks ago, St. Austin's design has done nothing but please its congregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Father's Nightmare | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Physiologists S. W. Britton and R. F. Kline used to sit in their laboratory at the University of Virginia and wonder why the sloth is so slothful. As good Darwinians they realized that the basic reason for the slothfulness of the sloth is that he is beautifully adapted to his environment. He hides from his enemies instead of fleeing; being a vegetarian, he does not have to chase his food. But other animals have been known to alter their innate behavior because of outside influences.* Why not the sloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Speedup | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...time limit was determined by the period figure skaters can leap and whirl without falling on their exhausted faces. Although Henie has enriched her repertory with ice dances such as her Pavlova-inspired "Dying Swan," her standbys are those of other figure skaters: the Lutze jump; Jackson Haynes (a sit spin); Axel-Paulsen (a one-and-a-half jump ending on the other skate); camel spin (on one foot); double Salchow (a double jump from the inside edge of one skate to the inside edge of the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. . . . May the Children of the Stock of Abraham who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants, while every one shall sit in safety under his own Vine and Figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Abraham's Stock | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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