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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of imaginary newspaper and radio reports of what Isenberg would like to see happen in Europe, the booklet states that Hitler resigned, saying. "As I sit here before this microphone, I am overcome with the realization of the sius I have committed in the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HITLER'S RETIREMENT TOLD IN STUDENT'S PIPE DREAMS | 3/31/1939 | See Source »

...reasons Cinemactress Helen Vinson gave last December for suing Fred Perry for divorce was his insisting that she sit through all his tennis matches. Last week, after Tennist Perry had been trounced three times in a row by Donald Budge on their first joint professional tour, Miss Vinson withdrew suit, rejoined her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...dried fruits, five francs in 50-centime pieces, a piece of cloth tied around the leg, a mineral-water bottle label, one hand drawn on a piece of white paper and the ability to conjugate on arrival, while standing, the imperfect subjunctive of the verb s'asseoir (to sit down).* It is interesting and profitable work for housewives, youths and the unemployed, who have the after noon to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Course au Tr | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...must be plastered with a secret British cement apocryphally said to be made from silt from the bed of the Thames. Courts are 110 ft. long, 38 ft. wide, with a net-covered recess behind the server's court called a dedans, in which the spectators sit. On the left of the server's court, and continuing along the same wall beyond the low-slung net into the hazard court, are other recesses called galleries and doors. Behind the receiver is another slot called a grille. Sloping down toward the court over these recesses and over the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...musical novel called Maurice Guest opened (pianissimo) Henry Handel Richardson's career in 1908. Richardson's next book, The Getting of Wisdom (1910), struck a chord that made listeners sit up: how did this man get to know so many intimacies of life in an Australian girls' college? When, in 1929, the same author's Ultima Thule packed them in to standing room, the audience insisted on the virtuoso's taking a bow. To their surprise, the bow turned out to be a curtsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Richardson's Richard | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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