Word: sitter
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...dilettante, it is true that in portrait-painting he was a good beginner, finished about a dozen of the hundreds of portraits he began. Once he took so long over a child-portrait "that whole families sat for it from the eldest to the youngest . . . until the original sitter returned from America, the mother of five children, to find the painting still unfinished...
...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...
...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...