Word: pit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Manning, with a silver trowel in his hand, strode down the aisle in swishing panoply until he confronted an enormous block of golden Poughkeepsie granite propped up in the south end of the Cathedral by a block and tackle. Trustee George W. Wickersham described how, in the pit prepared for the stone, lay a copper box, 18 inches long, lined with tin, filled with relics of the Church, lists of contributors, newspapers, American coins. Then, while the people repeated the Lord's Prayer, the Bishop traced the sign of the cross upon the rock with his trowel; Architect...
Inside, they assembled in the great pit of the House of Representatives. There little placards were tacked up in the great semicircle of seats, making it look almost like a political convention. Japan and Great Britain took up most of the space and the Republican side of the house, and all the Americans Charles Curtis and Theodore Burton and Fred Britton, as well as "Joe" Robinson and Claude Swanson, sat on the Democratic side...
...Subscriber Guthe have come to hand. Possibly because the reviewer spoke of the Chicken-Wagon Family (TIME, Sept. 21) as "an unforgetable book"; of Five Oriental Tales (TIME, Sept. 14) as ". . . keen-edged. . . glinting fine irony"; of The Perennial Bachelor (TIME, Sept. 7) as "... ripe fruit juicy pulp, rigid pit, tart kernel...
...great pit of the House of Representatives in the Capitol at Washington, on the first day of October there will assemble a strange polyglot agglomeration of men whom the peoples of the teeming earth have chosen to regulate their liberties and decree their tabus?the Interparliamentary Union. Gatherings of diplomats from half the countries of the world are fairly common, and assemblages of executive heads, premiers, dictators and Presidents are not unknown. But the lawmakers of the world generally remain in a magnificent isolation from international contacts. The Interparliamentary Union is the great exception. In Paris...
...twelfth green. A ball glistened 15 feet from the pin. It was Gunn's. Another huddled in the sand of a nearby pit. It was Jones'. Both had played their third shots. The champion was one down. He grasped a niblick and walked into the pit...