Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figured largely in modern ideas of cosmic structure. Albert Einstein predicted as a consequence of his relativity theory that light from large bodies would show a shift toward the long end of the spectrum, that this shift did not mean a real movement away from earth. Willem De Sitter, on the contrary, claimed it as evidence that matter is constantly tending to scatter, expand the limits of the universe...
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...Manhattan, just because street renters of binoculars said so, gapers last week paid to squint at a "flagpole-sitter" atop the New York Central Office building. The "sitter" was only an ornament up there almost a year...
...made gets that seemed impossible. For such short legs, the pace was hard, and while Hunter was obviously campaigning to make them cave in he seemed, like the gallery, to admire their staunchness. Once, after a hard return, Bell fell heavily in the forecourt and Hunter gave him a "sitter"?lobbed the ball so as to give him time to get up. Bell got up, and smashed the sitter, won the point. The gallery was surprised but thought it understood. In the excitement of his fall, Bell had evidently not realized Hunter had done him a courtesy. Hunter looked...
...claiming a default when his opponent had hurt himself? Others supported Hunter's own claim?that he had been playing for Bell's legs, that Bell could only beat these tactics by taking a rest. Beside, they said, how could Bell expect lenience after what he did to that sitter...