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Word: sitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Academic chaos (necessary to some degree I assume, as long as we know less than absolute truth) begins to look like academic utopia. On the day that President Conant and General Eisenhower tune in God on their personal or university television seta, I will be mere than happy to sit at their feel and chalk "right" and "wrong" on Right and Wrong respectively. Until then I prefer to direct my alien curiosity and student naivete (not to be confined with "integrity") toward other than exclusive teaching wedded to its own conclusions. Fred L. Glimp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Canonization . . . Alien Curiosity' | 6/23/1949 | See Source »

...yoke of all upperclass scholastic problems falls on the shoulders of Dean Wilma A. Kerby-Miller (bottom, left,). Both Deans also sit on the Scholarship and other college committees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Has Separate Administration | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

Crosby was reported late today "to be in excellent condition." His partially punctured right lung was still bothering him but he was able to sit up and move about his room. If his improvement continues he will be released later in the week and will return to his home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crosby to Quit Bed by Friday | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

When he was last at home on Long Island, blond, blue-eyed Dan McCarthy couldn't forget the wonderful time he had as a G.I. in Germany. He liked to sit up late with his memories, listening to German records and sipping wine by candlelight. In March, he sailed for Europe on the S.S. America. At the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt he said he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship. "I cry inside when I think about America," Dan confessed, "I'm homesick for my mother and the subways of New York, but my destiny lies here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Fed Up | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Street, London, England; it was postmarked Cleveland, Miss. Wrote 19-year-old Coed Laquita Joyce Bell of Delta State Teachers College: "Dear Mr. Holmes: My English teacher told me something would happen if I wrote you. He refused to tell me what. This aroused my curiosity, so here I sit, feeling rather silly, writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hedunit | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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