Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United Automobile Workers' Homer Martin and C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis, who disagree about many matters, long have understood that factionalism rampant in the U. A. W. A. was harming the whole industrial union movement. Outlaw sit-downs, repudiations of his authority, and kindred manifestations of factional trouble were blamed by Mr. Martin upon Communist careerists and others in his union who, according to him, raised hell for the hell of it. In large part, Mr. Lewis blamed Mr. Martin, who according to the C. I. O. chairman should have displayed more administrative fortitude, a quality...
Most famed contemporary stammerer is King George VI, * whose private teacher, Lionel Logue, is a crony of Lawyer Smith's. Logue has spent many hours coaching the King, used to sit near him to encourage him at all speechmaking functions. Unlike a commoner, King George cannot practice before an audience...
...with labor and its effect upon business. Excerpt: "The Industrial Union in its present form has to depend on force in defiance of law. There are not many places in the U. S. at the moment where laws can be enforced to control the movement. The technique of the sit-down strikers is identical with that of the syndicalists of Europe. France has finally had to take a stand against them because of the dangers as a political club rather than a social defensive weapon. I feel confident that the U. S. will eventually take the same stand. . . ." Then...
...leisure between fires the Chief explained, "Some of them play cards, some road, some study, and some just sit." When a colored sketch which resembled a grinning Indian was pointed out to the king of the fire house he remarked, "Well, the boys like to play, you know...
...broadening. few students take full advantage of these opportunities, most of them plodding dully through their sixteen routine courses, unconscious of the flood around them. Yet, many of these intellectual draughts are free to any who will drink-to any who will take the time to audit courses or sit in occasional out-of-course lectures. Most students are aware of this; the crime is that so few avail themselves...