Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at rows of battered desks in a big, grey-walled room in the Treasury Building in Washington, 40 old women in aprons and house dresses sit counting the worn, dirty, ill-smelling U. S. currency sent in by banks to be changed for new bills. The room's windows have iron gratings and Treasury guards stand by, but last week it was discovered that four grey-haired drudges had found a way to eke out their $30-per-week pay. They had been robbing the Treasury for years. When a package...
...beginning-you listened in that night?-to be heard in the voice of the young tribal God himself. . . . They were cock-a-hoop, and since Edward's accession getting insolent and out-of-hand. There was but one more world to conquer. The first woman to sit in the ancient Commons was a divorced American.* why not then also...
...squared off at the U. S. also. Though Nazi propagandists have been remiss in neglecting the satiric possibilities of Father Divine (see p. 61), they found a ripe windfall in Mississippi's savage blowtorch lynchings of last fortnight (TIME, April 26). This was amplified by newsreel shots of Sit-Down strikes. And Schwarze Korps, organ of Hitler's special guards, was able to do its bit. It filled a front page with pictures of U. S. female wrestlers, headlined it: AMERICAN LADIES...
...sit back in your seat and miss very little by closing your eyes. A lot of very good Beethoven will wash around you, interspersed with some less masterful music which will but whet your appetite for more Beethoven. From time to time grown-ups and children will chatter in a very unintelligible language which is probably Russian. If plot or foreign photography interests you, open an eye every now and then to get the continuity, for there are a few more complications to this scenario than most European classical productions boast...
...sit-down technique is definitely a weapon in the CIO armory and a very effective instrument," was the instructor's comment on the new mode of striking. He felt that the question of the legality of the sit-down has not yet been determined, mentioning its defense in an article in the "New Republic" by the dean of the Northwestern Law School...