Word: sit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week Alger Hiss will have his chance to sit in the witness chair...
Dissenting in the Terminiello case. Frankfurter sarcastically chided the majority: "This is a court of review, not a tribunal unbounded by rules. We do not sit like a kadi under a tree dispensing justice according to considerations of individual expediency...
...placid Queen Anne got tired of bouncing in a carriage over Britain's heaths watching the gentlemen of her court chase deer. She established the Ascot racecourse so that she could sit in one place and watch the gentlemen race their horses around. In the 238 years since then (right up into last week), interesting occurrences have taken place at Ascot...
...tuxedoed and evening-gowned audience that filled little Jubilee Hall at Aldeburgh on Britain's windswept Suffolk coast last week was beginning to feel self-conscious and uncomfortable. They had just learned that they could not sit back and listen to the premiere of Benjamin Britten's sixth opera, Let's Make an Opera!; they had to take part...
Girls & Mice. This testing is a mass-production process which would be impossible on such a scale in a smaller laboratory. Girls in white uniforms sit at a table with cages of mice before them and bits of mouse cancer in glass trays...