Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Possibly because the line of journalistic duty runs through so many dreary assembled prides of Lions, lumber dealers, plumbers and Jaycees. newsmen usually make indifferent conventioners. Faced with a gathering of their own clan, they either ignore it or show up reluctantly, prepared to sit out the interminable sessions in bored and unresponsive silence. Last week's silver anniversary convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association at French Lick, Ind. was no exception, but before the session was over, the editors got down to some plain talk about themselves. Items: ¶Nieman Curator Louis M. Lyons, onetime Boston...
...Louise Comstock took over in 1923 was something of a makeshift institution. In 1879 a committee of Cambridge ladies asked Harvard President Charles W. Eliot for permission to hire Harvard professors to teach young ladies. The ladies got their permission and hired their profs-and also female chaperons to sit beside them as they taught. The college prospered under Miss Comstock, but until the last year of her reign, she still had to lure Harvard faculty members each year to teach part time at Radcliffe. Then, in 1943, she outraged old Harvards, gave malicious delight to their Yale and Princeton...
...illustrate typical Soviet humor, he related a story popular in Russia this summer. Khrushchev, he said, was marking a tour of Soviet farms and hired a peasant to sit on top of Moscow towers to watch for the advent of true Communism which would replace the present "preliminary, benevolent" Soviet state...
Adams' soccer team, riding the crest of 12 straight shutouts in intramural play, will face Peirson with Dale Bower in the goal. A strong defense allows the aggregation to build up an early lead and sit tight for the rest of the contest...
...offered to protect us with a squad of Pinkerton men, and besides, can't you see what would happen if some cops tried to arrest us right there in the middle of the Stadium? Gentlemen, we have faith that if such an outrage was threatened, Harvard undergraduates would not sit idly...