Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brewster & Co., builders of swank automobile bodies, sued Mrs. Blanche J. Parks, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. newspaper publisher, for $600, balance she owed on a $5,000 body for her Rolls-Royce. Mrs. Parks's reason for not paying up: her escort could not sit in the back seat with his topper...
...When there is widespread disobedience to law, it is not enough to enforce the law; it is also necessary to discover and eliminate the causes of that widespread disobedience. ... I do feel sure that the sit-down strike has now been thoroughly discredited and I believe we have seen...
...outlaw sit-downs...
...Poland would suddenly be faced with the alternative of surrender or war. If Poland (plus France and Russia) went to war with Germany, there is at least a 50-50 chance that Germany would win. Britain, having shown little interest in any further Eastern European developments, might choose to sit this war out with Italy. The Balkans might sit it out with Hungary, which is being Nazified as fast as Hitler can do it. Hitler's Push to the East thus has a pretty good chance of pushing...
With no Radeliffe girls in sight, the Cambridge Student Co-operative Society's dining hall will get its formal opening in the basement of Andover Hall today at 12:30 o'clock when the 180 members sit down with their invited guests...