Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students have of deciding who shall pay for the oysters. Several students come in and sit down. One opens the book and all note what letter of the alphabet is the second in the second line from the top of the left-hand page. The book is passed to each student in turn, who cuts or opens to a new place. He who has the letter furthest down the alphabet from the letter A has to pay for the oysters...
...explained that they wished Elsie and me to go up together, as pulling us up was a good deal more work than letting us down. I objected to this. There was hardly room in the bucket for little Elsie alone. If we went up together we should have to sit opposite one another on the edge of the bucket with the rope between, like the two sides of a pair of scales; and I feared that Elsie might get cramped and frightened before we reached the top. Besides, I noticed that about six inches above the bucket the rope...
...Pendleton civil service bill was discussed in the Senate, and Mr. Pendleton gave notice that he should ask the Senate to sit out the bill at today's session...
...work. Peters of Yale was conspicuous for unfair tackling throughout the game. Yale was so unfair as to block a man so that he could not catch the ball, and even if he touched it he would be hurled to the ground. Four or five Yale men would repeatedly sit upon some unfortunate wearer of the crimson, which would cause the poor fellow to gasp for breath, half-choked as he arose. Again and again did Yale foul Harvard, knocking the ball out of the player's hands after he had made a catch, the referee giving the ball...
...class photographic committee desire to inform the class that, according to the terms of the contract with Mr. Pach, every member of the class has a right to sit for his photograph as many times as are necessary till he receives a negative satisfactory to himself...