Word: sit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fund grants, over 250 college faculty members leave their posts each year to study at other institutions. More than 50 of these teachers come to Harvard annually to observe teaching practices in college courses. Some spend most of their time in the Widener stacks engaged in individual research; others sit in on General Education courses for ideas to use in their own courses...
Waging Peace. Testifying before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Old Reservist Howley attacked not only the' President's position on negotiations with the Chinese Reds but also his exchange of letters with Russia's Georgy Zhukov. Said Howley: "You don't sit down with murderers and discuss business. The longer we wait, the more awful the war will be . . . Defense is no good. It never wins. You can't even win a girl that way. A defensive policy in the long run will destroy the American spirit, among other things...
...Clay Folger to house his vast, scattered hoard of Shakespeariana, the library was run almost like an exclusive club. Only scholars known to its staffers could gain access to its books and manuscripts-after writing in advance. Even the favored few were stopped by the silken rope, had to sit on a bench until a staff member came to escort them to the books. As a result, days went by without a single visitor gracing the reading room. Virtually untouched were its great prizes: 79 Shakespeare First Folios (no other library has more than four...
...achievement. Party chiefs, rather than scientific experts, boss Red China's biggest projects, e.g., the taming of the Hwai River, with a resulting emphasis on hand labor rather than new machines. Concludes the M.I.T. survey: "It is a sad day for the 'bourgeois scientists,' who must sit inactively watching the wastefulness of the Communist method of organizing masses to perform unskilled tasks...
...There is a kind of folk culture in America that makes almost everyone want to sit in the back of the church," said Assistant Secretary of Labor J. Ernest Wilkins to the Methodist Church Council of Bishops in Seattle. "A friend of mine the other day was telling me about an old saying . . . 'Beware of the man in the front pew.' The implication being, I suppose, that there is a certain amount of respectability in the admission that we are all sinners...