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Word: sitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will tell how far Haines has come to conjuring his men into preparedness for the MIT race a week from tomorrow. Its doubtful whether their showing will be up to that of last year's freshman 150 crew which was so extraordinarily good that six members of it now sit in the varsity 150 shell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Crew | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

...normal procedure for sitters is to form lasting friendships with three or four families and always sit with their children. This has the advantage of forming "uncle" relationships with countless moppets and of knowing, where in the house the toys are kept in case of a crisis. The fact that it also leads to a more thorough knowledge of the inside of the icebox is frowned upon by Holt who finds other jobs for such miscreants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baby Sitting Business Pays For Study Time But Has Its Pitfalls | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

...reason students baby-sit," says John W. Holl director of the Students Placement Service, "is that it allows them to be paid while they are studying. Of course study in this case depends on quiet and orderly babies." But not all babies are quiet and orderly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baby Sitting Business Pays For Study Time But Has Its Pitfalls | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

James L. O'Dea, Jr. 1G will sit in the State legislature next fall by virtue of his win in the Democratic primary held Tuesday in the fifteenth Middlesex District. In the Lowell district, a win in the Democratic primaries has always been equivalent to a win in the election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Student Wins Democratic Primary Election | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

...never set eyes on him, for which I am both sorry and glad; for ... all the men . . . who have seen him are such soft toads, they have done nothing but blast their eyes, and cry, ever since he was killed-God bless you! Chaps that fought like the devil sit down and cry like a wench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Naval Person | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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