Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether a man of such obviously injudicial temperment, and of such palpable intellectual dishonesty as to dodge slyly away from the only things that the public should have heard last night, is to don the black robe and ascend the highest tribunal in the country and there to sit in judgement with the while robe of his unanswered past fluttering behind...
...employers prepared to sit down three times a week under Harvard's gold eagles, Professor Slichter warned them not to expect immediate results from "putting your house in order." Said he: "It takes from two to five years for the employes to gain confidence that conditions have really changed for the better...
...they drive. Like his brother, racing what he calls a "big iron" the ''little iron" driver is inordinately susceptible to quirks and superstitions. No driver will paint his car green. No driver likes to catch sight of a customer munching peanuts. No driver will let a woman sit in his car. Lost shoes are also a bad omen, since the impact of a crash on a tightly-wedged driver often knocks him out of his shoes. Not so dangerous as "big iron" racing, the chief problem of the doodlebug driver is keeping his jealously guarded fuel mixture...
Dean Landis announced that Harvard could not allow itself to sit back on its heels in the matter of graduate school study. "Although we offer the widest range of graduate work of any law school, we must make an effort to build it up still further." He claimed that the importance of graduate law work is not in getting degrees but in making contributions to legal knowledge...
...loaded luxury liners. Among the 16 odd airports serving Greater New York, none can qualify with the Air Commerce Bureau's classification as super terminals (4,000 ft. runways in four directions plus two miles of clear approaches). But the metropolis has many places where a pilot can sit down...