Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cutting expenditures: "I sit in my office with a business man who thinks the surest way to produce customers is to balance the Federal budget at once. I say to him-'How?' Sometimes he says-'How should I know? That is your job.' Sometimes he says-'Cut the budget straight through 10% or 20%.' Then I take from my desk drawer a fat book and it is apparent at once that he never has seen or read the budget of the Government of the United States...
...whole galaxy to which the sun and all other visible stars belong-the Milky Way-appears to be slowly rotating. Various regions in this great disk, six hundred thousand trillion miles across, rotate at different speeds. Mr. Sit-by-the-Fire swings around the centre of the Milky Way at 170 miles per second...
...bought carriage after carriage for him . . . but . . . he just couldn't sit up. [Father Greenfield demonstrated how the child's head flopped to & fro on its neck.] I bought babies' toys for him but when I held them out he couldn't grasp them. He lay there like a-like a lump of pudding." Jerry grew large rapidly, too rapidly. He never learned to walk alone, could only lurch, spin and sprawl. Almost nothing coordinated. He had to be helped with the simplest functions. When he was put in institutions, he pined for his family...
...deadly mistake could be made and it would be a frightful thing if Europe were to be plunged into war on account of a misunderstanding. Our people have settled down into a mood of fixed resolve, confident in our strength, clear in our conscience. We are not prepared to sit by and see the independence of one country after another successively destroyed." As for Danzig, Mr. Chamberlain said he would be happy to see that question settled, but in the meantime: "If an attempt were made to change the situation by force in such a way as to threaten Polish...
...speckled trout for the Quebec specialty Truite Mouchetee de la Maurice to be served at the Government dinner at the Chateau Frontenac. In Montreal, original seating arrangements for a civic banquet had to be altered and round tables replaced when officials belatedly realized that no one may sit with his back to the King. At the Chateau gold-plated microphones were installed for the King's first speech. Towns along the St. Lawrence heaped bonfires, decked railway stations. At Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies...