Word: pit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...children, probably, have come to man's estate without the idea that somewhere there existed a bottomless pit. It was that deliciously terrible figure of the imagination which comes in a dream just before one rolls to the floor. But it has always remained an abstract imagining until the German mark suddenly came upon it and tumbled in. The mark had already reached an abysmal depth; now gathering more impetus, it has plunged onward twice as far as before...
...polite deadlock as to which of their colts deserved to run a mile and a half against Papyrus, pride of England, on Oct. 20 in the International Stakes at Belmont Park, L. I. Comment rippled over from England at the delay. Did the Americans think Ben Irish might pit his Papyrus against both colts ? With a match race agreed on? With $100,000 at stake...
Working in the "pit," a windowless sub-cellar of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. Dr. Robert S. Mulliken, National Research Fellow has for the past five months been carrying out elaborate researches in band spectra, almost unknown to the University at large...
...indications that the world supply of wheat for the coming year would be larger than previously anticipated, wheat prices in the Chicago wheat pit have slumped for some time. The fear has even been expressed that the price of a bushel of wheat might descend below $1.00 on the present movement...
There is also that great British theatrical institution, the pit. You stand in line at the door for a length of time in a length of queue depending upon the success of the play?then the whistle Wows and you all crowd in and try to grab the nearest available seat to the barrier that cages the pit-devotees away from the swells in the stalls. Thus, if you don't get your eye gouged out in the rush, you obtain what would be in I New York a $2.75 orchestra seat for a good deal less. The pit need...