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Word: pit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University grapplers will go on the mat tonight for the first time this season when they pit brawn and muscle against Columbia at 8 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLERS FACE COLUMBIA IN OPENING MEET OF SEASON | 1/12/1927 | See Source »

...pawed by eager humans, blood curious, licking their chops: The Co-operative Association of Moscow Hunters will present a magnificent spectacle in which 1,000 rabbits will be chased and torn to pieces by 200 hounds. . . . Eighty foxes and an equal number of dogs will fight in a pit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Proletarian Shambles | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Went down to the primal pit; They sat on the edge and nobbled there Over the pristine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...least $100,000,000. Young Barney drifted out to South Africa in the '70s when individual diggers spaded the surface soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve. Since "diamond earth" occurs in huge cones pointing downward, the diggers soon found their open pits were becoming death traps as "mud rushes" (slides) caved in upon them from the perimeter. Subsoil mining followed as a matter of course, but subsoil mining is expensive. It was in forming the great mining syndicates which bought out the open pit "little fellows" and sunk deep mines that such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dumping Diamonds | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...orchestra was about the trampiest bunch of tramps that ever tramped, but thep put out good stuff and above the shreiks of the savages, through the boom of guns, out of the mouth of the orchestra pit came the six hundred best measures of dance music that ever greeted so motley a crowd...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/19/1926 | See Source »

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