Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans the greatest meaning, the greatest joy and the greatest pride lies in the knowledge that this shrine which is ours is not ours only, but for freedom-loving peoples all over the world. And they come here from all over the world, as you, to sit in this building in reverence and homage...
...twenty-seven minutes they imbibe and renew acquaintances, and then stand out shout for three minutes: "Go, Crimson," or some other suitably other-directed remark. Then they all sit down and start asking each other who won,. for the angle of the finish line makes surveying tools and a slide rule necessary for these spectators to guess the winter...
...hesitant. As Edward T. Wilcox, adviser and associate director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, says, "I never eat with my advisees unless they ask me to. The last thing we want is to have lots of eager advisers rushing around the Union to find freshmen. I go and sit by myself and see if any freshmen will come over." Actually, the person the freshmen are complaining about is not the one who comes to the Union--even if he makes no effort to pick out his advisees--but rather the one who constantly sits with other advisers or never...
...alternates his chills with comedy, as when Jimmy is bitten by a stuffed tiger, and gets deft performances from both Stewart and Doris Day. But the pace grows laggard toward the end. Instead of using music as a background for action, Hitchcock moves it up front, and moviegoers must sit still not only for the dismayingly long cantata but also for special numbers sung by Doris Day. The chief drawback of these musical stage-waits is that they allow the audience to think back over the story and conclude that it doesn't make much sense...
...usual means of transportation on such tours is the station wagon of one of the debators. While two men sleep on a mattress in back, two sit in front, switching off and driving constantly. Despite the graduation of the station wagon, the tours will continue next year in the Council's own car, the recent gift of Frederick F. Greenman '14, chairman of the Council's Alumni Advisory Committee and leader of a campaign to improve post-World War II debating at the College...