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Sessions

noun

United States composer who promoted 20th century music (1896-1985). Synonyms: Roger Huntington Sessions, Roger Sessions.

Session

noun

A meeting for execution of a group's functions.

The time during which a school holds classes. Synonyms: academic session, academic term, school term.

A meeting devoted to a particular activity. "A gossip session"

A meeting of spiritualists. Synonyms: seance, sitting.

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"Sessions" Quotes from Famous Books

... measures quiet was in a few days restored, although the Committee of Public Safety continued to hold sessions and to take steps not only to prevent any further demonstrations, but to arrest and bring to punishment a number of ...

— A Short History of Pittsburgh • Samuel Harden Church

... the report of the trial at assizes in 1830 there is not one word about the 'ghost,' though he is conspicuous in the hearing at petty sessions. The parallel to Fisher's case is thus complete. And the reason for omitting the ghost in a trial is obvious. The murderers of Sergeant Davies of Guise's, slain in the autumn of 1749 in Glenclunie, were acquitted by an Edinburgh ...

— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang

... written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, in the summer of 1918. We are printing them, however, so that the information in them can be more widely distributed, since they are the outgrowth of almost a quarter ...

— Five Lectures on Blindness • Kate M. Foley

... justices of the peace was, by the statute of Edward VI. necessary in order to grant this licence. But even this restraint was afterwards thought insufficient, and, by a statute of Elizabeth, the privilege of granting it was confined to the quarter-sessions. ...

— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith

... half share in the harness business and a quarter share in the tannery and that made him a business man. He paid for a pew in the Presbyterian Church and that represented religion in Parliament. He attended college for two sessions thirty years ago, and that represented education and kept him abreast with modern science, if not ahead of it. He kept a little account in one bank and a big account in the other, so that he was a rich man or a poor ...

— Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town • Stephen Leacock

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