Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Pittsburgh had a sit-down strike against post-season games; this year its Freshman team was incensed at the lackadaisical manner in which their tuition was cared for. Now the college wants to go simon-pure. At Notre Dame an enterprising student recently issued a pronouncing gazeteer so that the public might become better acquainted with the far-flung "fighting Irish." But Mr. Hutchins says that only a handful of students are in big-time college football; Notre Dame combats this by acquiring plenty of players. They used eighty-eight men in one game, four Irish and eighty...
...Party for National Unity. The Czech Agrarian and Czech National Socialist groups, the Fascist National League and part of the Czech People's Catholic Party complied. The minority Socialists, Communists and dissident Catholic deputies did not. Pending punishment for or forgiveness of their recalcitrance, they were allowed to sit as a Labor Opposition...
...English style of riding to hounds. You gallop over a paneled countryside, jumping fences and ditches in breathless pursuit of a pack of hounds that are in breathless pursuit of a fugitive fox. The other is a strictly native procedure, evolved in the mountain country of the south. You sit on a fence, following the unaccompanied chase...
...respect throughout his long life-time by his unceasing laboratory work, continued almost up to the day of his death. And by his honest and conscientious devotion to his teaching, he won the affection of several generations of Harvard students. His interests in general educational methods impelled him to sit on many faculty committees. His responsibility for the introduction of the laboratory procedure into secondary schools earned for him the American Association of Physics Teachers' award for the highest contribution made by a physics teacher...
Last week Dancer Argentinita made another try with a concert in Manhattan's Majestic Theatre. This time Manhattanites, finally aware of who she was, thronged the theatre, stamped and yelled, gaped at castanet playing that would have made Gene Krupa sit up, footwork (zapateado) that would have made Bill Robinson's eyes pop. Though Dancer Argentinita is known to be an ardent Spanish Loyalist, Manhattan's Spaniards called an armistice for an evening. Both Leftists and Rightists turned out to give her a big hand...