Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important at the finish. Cummings, driving a four-cylinder Miller Special, with No. 7 painted on its yellow hood, streaked across first, barely ahead of a black Duray. To make sure he had finished the race Cummings kept on around the track twice before he slowed down at his pit. Mauri Rose, driver of the Duray, who had led the race from the 250-mile post to the place where Cummings passed him 200 miles farther on, learned that he had lost by 27 seconds. On the ground that Cummings had illegally gained three quarters of a lap while...
...jail on a charge of misapplying some $2,000,000 of his defunct Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. In Chicago the lawyers of wiry, lean-lipped Arthur William Cutten were doing their utmost before a Federal referee to keep their client from being barred from the Chicago grain pit and all other U. S. contract markets...
Scrabbling at the bottom of a great pit 50 ft. deep, the diggers bared a necropolis of 200 graves which they ascribed to the Jemdet Nasr period, nearly four millennia before Christ. Despite the pilferings of ancient vandals, countless beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian, crystal, shell, marble, chalcedony and gold still encircled the necks and hips of crumbling skeletons with tightly bent legs. Up two long flights of steps carved by sweating natives in the clay walls of the pit were carried 770 vessels of alabaster, gypsum, limestone, diorite. and some of copper, all buried long before the Patriarch Abraham...
Captain Transue of the Elis is perhaps the most serious threat that Coach Clark Hedder's men will have to pit them skill against. He calls it a bad day for his game if by any chance he happens to sheet anything less than something in the bow seventies...
...fresh selling surged across the Chicago Pit. May wheat dropped 4¼? a bu. Although the price rallied later in the day, it once touched 72⅞?−down more than 14? from the high of the previous week. When President Roosevelt took office nearly 14 months ago, wheat was selling in Chicago at 47? per bu. Since then the AAA has distributed $65,000,000 in subsidies to wheat growers to reduce production. Yet when last week's selling wave was over, wheat stood at 76? per bu. and the present crop carryover promised a surplus...