Word: pit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Racer Norman Batten of Brooklyn burst into flames. Batten stood up, like the boy on the burning deck. He steered with his right arm until it was scorched, then with his left, then with his right again-until he brought the car to a stop in front of his pit where the flames were extinguished. If he had leaped to safety when the car first took fire, it might have crashed into the grandstands and killed dozens of spectators...
...other approach to this work must consider the two volumes as a factor themselves in the civilization which the Beards have tried to describe. Here the ground is full of pit-falls, which the Beards themselves have wisely avoided but which their work has made more obvious and less inevitable. There are students of American civilization who see in this country some signs of a growing self-consciousness, who suspect that as the earlier struggle against geographical frontiers produced its efflorescence in what one of these students has not ineptly termed "the golden days", so the present struggle against social...
...tell also about the far larger and more important National intercollegiate glee club contest, which I heard here in Chicago? Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Purdue, Michigan, Wabash, Knox, Notre Dame, Grinnell and Milliken sang, and sang beautifully. Why the winners of the eastern contest were not there to pit themselves against our melodious Northwestern, I cannot guess. Northwestern won, with Illinois and Iowa tied for second and Purdue third. TIME-would have had something to say if it had only heard those boys sing Schumann's Lotus Flower...
...What about our men dying now in the mine? Why don't you put on a gas mask and go down the pit, Baldwin? Coward! Traitor! Rush him! Down him and his psalm-singing wife...
Last fortnight Fisherman McShallis lay at death's vestibule, from exposure, broken leg and bloodpoisoning. When he regained speech he told how the Grey Ghost had broken its mooring, leaving him on San Clemente beach. He had tried to scale a cliff, but had fallen into a cactus pit. Rescuers found him, a moaning skeleton propped on its elbow, after eight days...