Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sure there were the umbrella racks, but there was nobody to check one's umbrella, and even if there had been, where was one to put one's ulster or one's goloshes. The authorities in charge of the concerts surely do not expect the audience to sit on wet coats and capes during the concert, and there is hardly room to put them elsewhere but under one in the theatre...
...there will be a great football game between the two leading teams of the South at that time; in the evening from 7. 30 to 10. 30 there will be a Greek play; at 10.30 begins the grand banquet, where at least eight hundred loyal Greeks will sit down to a royal feast...
...also attempt to throw the sixteenpound hammer. He approaches his take off at a slant, has no great amount of spring, and clears the bar all doubled up, his body bent, as if he would grasp his feet and lift himself over. He gives the impression of attempting to sit on the bar. Jennings jumps in better form, taking off usually straight ahead, although he sometimes affects the slanting run. It is probable that the high jump will go to Cambridge, as neither Thompson nor Sheldon, who will represent Yale, can be depended upon to do more than five feet...
...following seniors must sit for their pictures this week...
...following seniors must sit for their pictures this week...