Word: pit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill repealing their harshest prohibition. Last fortnight Governor Horace Mann Towner vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little bird, the hot argument or epic narrative afterward...
...race. They had seen the cars which, because of their speed, looked lopsided and awkward, whirl round the track. A Duesenberg Special with Jimmy Gleason driving led most of the way with Tony Gullota in a Stutz Special giving him a fight. Going into the last fifty miles the pit called in Gullota, and he stopped on his next runaround. "Gas line clogged!" he shouted, jumping out. Gleason signalled that motor trouble was forcing him to stop for gas. A big red car with "39" painted on the hood and tail was in front now. By looking at the programs...
...Last year he used two steel cylinders, equipped with small platinum balls, pendent in a 35 foot pit. By measuring their mutual attraction and regarding the earth's pull as a constant, he could discover a unit in which to compute the earth's attraction. This time his steel cylinders are equipped with small glass balls...
Wheat jumped from 2¾ to 3⅛ a bushel in Chicago's Pit last week on rumor that Russia, wheat exporting land, had bought 8,000,000 bushels cash grain in a few days and was in the market for more. An international grain house of the first magnitude refused to be quoted by name in its comment...
...Stokes of the New York Evening World: "Her very comprehensible alarm had not been conquered when the moment befell for her first aria, 'Mi chiamano Mimi,' which contained so many errors of note and time particularly in the tricky opening phrase, that Mr. Bellezza in the orchestra pit must have suffered not a few palpitations of angina pectoris. Like many another tone in this act, the final high C was gratingly off pitch...