Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between Peter B. Olney '37, who has been defeated only once and then on a close decision, and Maksik promises to be the best entertainment of the evening. When Cambere, captain of the Pennsylvania team faces John E. Brassil, Jr. '37, in the 145-pound class, boxing enthusiasts will sit up and take notice...
...find that there are still some millions of Americans left who would like to own an automobile designed with sufficient road clearance to permit them to travel occasionally on country roads away from the maddening rush and with sufficient head room to permit a man six feet tall to sit upright and see something of the country through which he is traveling, instead of . . . being obliged to double up over the steering wheel like a half-closed jackknife in order even to see traffle signals...
...getting a college degree by accumulating credits for courses passed. Future Yalemen must take and pass the same annual course examinations which Yalemen take now. But planted squarely at the end of that string of hurdles will be a higher hurdle. Beginning in May 1937, each student will sit down, at the end of his senior year, to lengthy departmental examinations. He will be quizzed on all the work he has done in his field, either in courses or independently. It will make no difference how high his course grades may have been. If he fails to pass those examinations...
...things vaudeville. Not least offensive are the Six Rosebuds, a chorus of circus fat ladies who indulge in amorous by-play with midgets. Cardini, a suave and silent magician, is on a higher plane than these. But it would take more than a clever magician to induce us to sit quietly through the antics and old jokes of Milton Berle, the genial master of ceremonies...
When Harvard students, as representatives of a sex noted for their lack of concern for domestic matters, vociferously protest the condition of their rooms. It is time to sit up and take notice. When a bed feels like a corrugated tin roof, when dust covers every object and piles high in neglected corners, irritation reaches a fever pitch. No blame can be attached to the goodies, they do remarkably well considering their human limitations. Rushing about the room, duster and mep in hand, with the speed of an express train is the only possible way for a goodie to clean...