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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sit down on some miniature wooden stands and observe critically. The Varsity starts a play. "One, two, three, four, SHIFT, five, six, seven. . ." and the ball is centered. I don't see it again until everybody stops running. "How to go Hal!" mutters one of the sports writers. "Noonan missed his block," says another...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

...Steps are just high enough so that the girls may sit on the ledge and swing themselves over and down the fire rope." Blamire added that without these steps, windows would be too far from the floor to permit the girls to get out safely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Floor Girls Shun Steps, Rope As Fire Escapes | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

Miss Gilbert, who was confirmed as chairman of the northern New England region last Saturday, will still sit on the Annex Council as second vice-president of Student Government, but will pass on the paperwork and organization of Radcliffe's NSA project--a tri-nations tour--to her successor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alice Gilbert Quits as 'Cliffe's NSA Delegate | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

...rascals have scrimped and saved enough to get battery radios and now keep up with current events and national issues with as much interest as you do. The discussions sometimes get a bit gusty, but I'd rather listen in on some of these sessions than sit in on The Pursuit of Happiness round table which LIFE ran. These people are really pursuing happiness. They are trying to get the last drop of pleasure out of life. Yet they have changed their outlook considerably since they have good books and magazines to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Seniors will sit in Section 38, starting with row F, all of 34, and part of 35. Sophomores will be farthest down field with their seats falling in Section 37, and Freshmen and graduate students will sit in the colonnade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.A.A. Set Today With Stadium Tix | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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