Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front bus, sitting in the back. Ryan and Trainer Jimmy Cox sit in the next seat, then Rae Crowther, most of the team, with Russ Allen up on the front right bench. Skip Stahley sticks his head in, grins, knocks Deland's hat off. Looking out the back window at the second bus. All that can be seen is Dick Harlow on the front seat. Bolton steps in, reads the roll. Allen? "Here." Down the line to "Winter?" "You Know It." The assistant motorman closes the door. Off from in front of the Union...
Whatever it is, it is built of wood, with a central brass frame, and lots of cells, plates, switches, etc. The patient is supposed to sit in a small wooden seat and hanging over him is an imposing helmet replete with four coil-enclosed plates...
...janitor said that Wales was a quiet, likeable chap with a flare for working with his hands. He stated that Wales kept all his tools in his room at B-31. The other janitor was not quite so convinced that Wales was a likeable chap. "He told me to sit in the chair and have my brains tested, but I didn't like the look in his eye and I didn't like the looks of the machine," this one announced...
...idle gossip or banter, but they are certainly far from aloof. Rumor to the contrary, a puzzled or worried student can still obtain an appointment quite as readily and quickly at University Hall as he could with any active business or professional man. Few persons would choose to sit in their rooms and worry about an exam when adequate books or notes for preparation were available in the library. They would use the facilities. Parallel reasoning holds true with regard to using deans. With classes as large as they are at Harvard, and with deans few in comparison...
...Maintenance boys are at it again, and this time they have come up with an automatic leaf collector. Gone are the days when little piles were raked together in odd corners to sit until somebody came around with a burlap...