Word: pit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...control of the Executive and of a majority in both houses of Congress present so pitiable a spectacle of discord and division? Four years ago the Republican Party, in snarling criticism of the great leader then in office, promised to 'end executive autocracy.' It has fallen into the pit that...
...broad-jumping pit, a dusky form plunked into the sawdust, was lifted out, groaning. De Hart Hubbard, Michigan Negro, had won for America, had made his winning jump despite the excruciating pain of a pulled tendon. Ned Gourdin, Harvard Negro, leaped to second place...
...historical spot at which the Democratic National Convention assembled. In the middle of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, in the pit where the delegates sat, only a few days before ardent swimmers had been splashing. The roof, that had often resounded with cheering of prizefight fans and from which circus acrobats had dangled in airy peril, was decked with the colors of the nation. The Convention restaurant, every year, had exhibited the freaks of the circus. The theatre in the building, which ordinarily was the seat of indescribable plays set forth in indescribable Yiddish, had been converted into a "Convention...
United States. The greatest sensation of the year in human fossils came to light on the Rancho Cunajo, near Los Angeles, Calif. A construction company, building a sewer, turned up a petrified skull and bone fragments of five human frames in a sand pit 23 feet below the surface. The strata are of the Pleistocene age, antedating the last great ice age, which ended at least 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. Several trained scientists happened to be near, including Dr. John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution; Dr. Robert T. Hill, geologist; Dr. William A. Bryan, Director...
...other valuable device is a distance compass. Any ordinary compass has to be placed in the pilot's pit, where it is so disturbed by the motor and other surrounding metal, as to be partially useless. The new instrument is an earth inductor compass, with no magnetic needle, but with a revolving electric coil placed in the tail of the machine-where it is undisturbed by any metal. The contact brushes are so arranged that a galvanometer in the cockpit, connected with the revolving coil, gives no reading when the plane is on her true course...