Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unparalleled, almost ungraspable in its immensity. . . . There never was economic waste on this gigantic scale." Lewis Corey holds that Fascism is no answer, but middle-class readers, visualizing the grim alternatives before them, are likely to experience despair, implore, like Milton's Satan as he stumbled toward the Pit: "Which way the neerest coast of darkness lyes...
...entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats a row of verminous flats. To the right rises a grimy coal chute. And all across the front stretches a pier-end from which urchins dive with a splash into what normally would be the orchestra pit, but which gives every illusion of being the fetid East River...
...husband heard her frantic screams, lugged her and a 7-lb. 9-oz. boy, who suffered only a few slight bruises on his head, from the 40-ft. pit. Afraid to do anything else, he wrapped wife and child in blankets, drove both twelve miles to a hospital where Dr. John Franklin Foster, child specialist, put them in good condition...
...established system and a struggling young regime will meet this afternoon when Coach Hunk Anderson of Holy Cross and Coach Dick Harlow of Harvard pit their teams against each other in the Stadium. The contrast between the two men's elevens will be sharp, for one will send out a veteran outfit, the other a unit that has been thrown together during the course of the past week...
This is the story of Benaiah, Valiant son of a valiant si-ah. Hero of a hundred fights, Killed two famous Moabites; Saw a lion in the pit, Went right down and slaughtered it. Killed a giant seven feet tall Whose back was like a city wall. Had a name among the three Mighty men of chivalry. Such is the story of Benaiah, Valiant son of a valiant...