Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every time I read about the Hoover Dam controversy, I have a recurrence of the same sickish feeling in the pit of my stomach, that I had when I first read of a suggestion to change the name...
...contraption that looked something like a horseshoe crab with a fin on its back and a propeller in its nose was wheeled out on the airport at South Bend. Ind. one day last week. Glenn Fesler Doolittle, 23-year-old cousin of famed Pilot Jimmy Doolittle, climbed into a pit in the crab's back and flew it away. Around & around the airport he flew, as fast as 97 m.p.h. (although the motor was only 37 h.p.), flipping and diving the weird machine like a kite in a gusty sky. Finally he brought it down, sinking gently...
BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK- H. C. McNeile-Crime Club ($2). An unknown threat against the Empire and the murder of a Secret Service man pit Drum- mond et al. against a ruthless criminal genius...
Profitable news was this to all holders of wheat. Future prices jumped to 75? a bushel in the Chicago pit...
...first, led by J. O. Brew 4G, will continue the excavations begun in 1931 on Alkali Ridge, in the San Juan drainage of Southeastern Utah. Alkali Ridge is covered with hundreds of ruins, dating from the pit house of Basket-maker times to the many-roomed stone structures of Puoblo III. The object of the expedition is to define the Pueblo II culture, which has never been determined. Thirteen sites were excavated last year with gratifying results...