Word: pit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then on the 18th (the 108th of the tournament for those two) it was Macfarlane 72 and in the cup; Jones 71 and ten feet away, after a pitch from the pit. Fat Legs smiled, took his stance, struck his ball, missed by inches...
Gleason was injured on Monday while standing near the hammer throwers pit. A hammer hurtled somewhat askew from the hands of a University weight man, and the whirling wire connecting the handle and hammer struck him on the side of the face, making a cut several inches in length...
...jump of 13 ft., set out to better the intercollegiate record of 13 ft. 1 in. set by Robert A. Gardner* in 1912.† He asked to have the bar put at 13-2, measured his takeoff, dashed down the runway, shot high in air, fell over into the pit. Ted Meredith stood up shouting. A record had fallen. But, as the crowd roared-as Sherrill, resting in the soft turf, looked up at the space over which he had leaped, the bar toppled, fell over...
...first of the cars crossed the finish line. At his pit, a diminutive dark young man was removing a pair of goggles. Fifty cameras clicked. The young man grinned, inquired...
...week in Trovatorc. Next day, Manhattanites of other nationalities read with astonishment of the singing of this De Muro-how his allegro was as clear as the bells of- Capri, his pianissimo tender as the mandolins of Sorrento and how the great assembly of his countrymen in the galleries, pit and loges of the old opera house rose shouting, with cries of "Ancora," "Bravo" and "Yeah." De Muro, they read, is known as the greatest tenor in Italy. He lives in Milan, where he sings at La Scala, owns a fine house, runs a cork factory-the biggest cork factory...