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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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... the foot soldier, who was capitally convicted for a street robbery in January sessions, was reprieved for transportation; but having an estate fallen to him, obtained a ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... into harness at once, my friends and I would most certainly be ground up. Head-quarters had been opened at the Algonquin Club, and there Addicks, Whitney, Towle, and the lawyers and lobbyists were holding day and night sessions. ...

— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... the counter smiled down at him in a manner which successive ten o'clock sessions had failed to ...

— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely

... of the First American Chess Congress; containing the Proceedings of that Celebrated Assemblage, held in New York in the Year 1857; with the Papers read in its Sessions, the Games played in the Grand Tournament, and the Stratagems entered in the Problem Tournay; together with Sketches of the History of Chess in the Old and New World. By Daniel Willard Fiske, M. A. New York. Rudd & Carleton. ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various

... could keep back the torrent of blood, fire, enthusiasm, and hatred. Already the Third Estate had solemnly proclaimed its separation from Old France, from the ancient monarchy of the lilies, since that monarchy had abandoned the large assembly-hall where the States-General held their sessions, and in which the nobility and the clergy still imagined they were able to maintain the balance of power against the despised Third Estate. The Tiers Etat had, in the ballroom, converted itself into the National Assembly, and with enthusiasm had all these deputies ...

— The Empress Josephine • Louise Muhlbach

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