Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score of 77 brought Robert C. Hunter '36 the qualifying medal, while fifteen other men with cards of 90 or less got into the match play. In the semi-finals, Lynford Lardner, Jr. '36 will play Norman Mendleson '38, and Thomas Boardman '36 will pit himself against Arvin N. Pierce '38. Last year the final match was played in a snowstorm, Alan Pattee, a Freshman, being returned the winner...
...owned, had done its best to spread work, a few hours a day per man. But that came to only $2 a week. These Magyar miners and their families were starving. It had come to the point last week where their mouths watered at sight of the fat little pit ponies, sweating in the lamplight. Up from the mine they suddenly sent an ultimatum: either the owners raise their pay to $3.50 a week or they would have one good dinner on the ponies and then smash the ventilators. Death by suffocation they preferred to death by slow starvation...
...Center Theater (3,700 seats) which has been a money-loser for a year as Rockefeller Center's second-string cinema theatre. Producer Max Gordon was obliged to build a new proscenium because the original arch would have dwarfed even his gigantic sets. In the finale, the orchestra pit rises majestically, slides back to join the other half of the orchestra onstage. and the united orchestra keeps on sliding back and back, leaving a huge ballroom with golden chandeliers and white and gold columns, ready for the younger Strauss's big moment...
With a week of hard work behind them the Varsity players are out to show the scrubs just how this game football ought to be played and the coaches are ready on their toes to pit the first-stringers against the lowlier rivals in the clash this afternoon. In preparation for the scrimmage this afternoon, the Varsity will be given a rest during the morning...
...comfort of animals, not humans. Visitors must hike along fenced or ditched paths while animals roam at will through acres of field and forest. The royal party had tea on a clipped, sloping bit of" turf with lions lolling just below them in a huge, sandy-bottomed chalk pit. "Their Majesties expressed themselves," reported the Illustrated London News, "as specially pleased with the tameness of the animals." Last week a visitor's hat blew over the low double fence around the lion pit. Obligingly after it hopped one Stanley Stenson, 25, a zoo truck driver. His ami was stretched...