Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account of submarine warfare leaves me a bit puzzled. As a civilian ... I have held for some time the belief that submarines are able to stay submerged only so long as they maintain active forward motion with motors running. And yet . . . you state that the "usual maneuver is to sit on bottom, motors off." By this do you mean that such submarines are stuck fast in the mud of the bottom or that submersion with motors off is possible regardless of the circumstances...
...sufficiently unintelligent and sufficiently cowardly, merely sit still and deplore it all (the war). We may wring our hands and express our deep regret that such things as these could still happen in our modern world. Nevertheless, the question presses for answer--What are we going to do about...
...precisely this same comment which is called for if we sit still and watch assault, arson and murder on a huge national and international scale and do nothing about...
...members attending the lectures in the Fogg Museum "large room," and there are only 388 seats in the room, the head monitor announced at the last meeting. So far no one desiring to take the course has been turned down, but auditors at the lectures have to sit on the floor or the platform, and so will any new members...
...their first concert, a recital by Pianist Hess, they expected a scattering of two or three hundred, were surprised by more than 1,000, who sprawled on the floor, leaned against the pillars, clung to the gallery's empty picture frames. ("Don't sit on those frames, please," pleaded the gallery's sweating guards. "They cost ?250 each.") By the time the first week's concerts were over, Pianist Hess had received nearly a hundred letters from famous musicians promising voluntary support, or services for a small fee, to help feed London's starved music...