Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolved that we will only sail with members of the M. E. B. A. [Maritime Engineers Beneficial Association] and the M. M. P. A. [Master, Mates and Pilots Association] and if the licensed personnel [officers] do not join the organization of their calling we the unlicensed personnel [crew] will sit down at once and continue until they [the officers] are relieved...
...mile voyage to Montevideo, Uruguay, worn Captain Gainard came down with influenza. He was ill in his bunk in that port when informed that another sit-down strike had taken place. In sympathy with a local longshoremen's strike, the Algic's crew refused to turn the winches. Too weak to handle the situation himself, Captain Gainard put through a 5,000-mile telephone call to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington. Boss Kennedy instantly sent off a message authorizing the captain to put the ringleaders in irons...
...Japan had grown so belligerent toward the Brussels Conference that the Belgian Government hastily informed Tokyo that if October 30 seems too early a date the Conference can be postponed, but the Imperial Japanese Government were expected to announce this week that they will refuse the invitation to sit in, in any case...
When Experimenters Clark & Ward touched the right side of the cat's cerebellum, the cat performed the same movements in the opposite direction starting with the right fore limb. Whenever they touch the midline of the cerebellum, "both fore limbs are involved at once and the cat may sit on its haunches with both fore limbs in the air; then both hind limbs become affected...
While other colleges throughout the nation are constantly increasing emphasis on crowd-attracting forms of sports in order to provide sustenance for minor activities, Harvard can sit back and let affairs coast along to an even finish...