Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...U.A.W.'s ranks-one so serious that John L. Lewis, who is reported to have no great faith in the Leaping Parson, may eventually intervene. President Martin is trying desperately to live down the union's reputation for irresponsibility. He has not only promised to discipline sit-downers but has also conceded to General Motors, as a condition to further negotiations on renewal of the union's contract, the right of the company to fire unauthorized sit-downers without recourse. Militant leaders know that in a growing union members want action, and if there was any truth...
Valencia last week had excitement of a different sort. For the first time in many months, the Spanish Cortes (parliament) met, for the first time in history it did not sit in the traditional semicircle, divided physically as well as spiritually into Left. Centre and Right, but in an ordinary auditorium set up on the trading floor of Valencia's silk exchange, the Lonja de la Seda...
...academic centres scattered throughout the U. S. students of the arts last week were gathering for a pleasant series of conferences on the cinema. In these courses no examinations were to be given, and no marks: all the "students" had to do was sit and look. Material for the course was the rich store of reprinted films (dating from 1895) gathered for the film library of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Cinemarchivists John E. Abbott and Iris Barry (his wife). For rental of their films, the museum charged $125 for 5 series of programs...
...were born in Newark, Al first (1903), Jimmy next (1905), and Bossprankster Harry last (1908). Their concocted whimsy extends offstage. They attended the Hollywood premiere of Wee Willie Winkie in kilts, once cooled their feet in a Beverly Hills municipal fountain. Sojourning in Manhattan, they like to sit in Lindy's, eating bagels (doughnut-shaped hard bread) and watch Broadway...
Last Sunday, as they will every fair Sunday until the end of November, farmers flocked up Blue Mountain, in Pennsylvania-Dutch Schuylkill County, to watch for hawks and eagles gliding above them, to sit fascinated watching-and never to make a murderous move toward a shotgun. For the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, atop Blue Mountain, is the only spot in the world where birds of prey are protected, and perhaps the world's best place to see them on the wing...