Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both the University and Freshman wrestling teams will pit their strength tonight against those of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The meet will start with the first-year men bouts at 7 o'clock in the Tech Gymnasium, and the University team will wrestle at the conclusion of the Freshman meet...
Secretary Mellon announced: "No compromise measures informally suggested to the Treasury up to the present time have received its approval." And again in the background of all the frantic Bonus proceedings in Congress loomed the possibility of a veto which would pit President Hoover and Mr. Young squarely against each other on a national issue...
...music Taylor did not get off to a happy start. In the opening ballroom scene the waltz which he had long aspired to do in the Strauss genre was muddled and thin. The singing on the stage seemed to have little relation to the rambling accompaniment in the pit. Things improved with the beginning of the dream music, much of which was based on French folk songs. The orchestration took on a lovely, flowing sheen. Interludes in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande linked the scenes. Theatrically effective was the music for the scene in which Peter met his childhood...
...arranged a demonstration for his arrival. Members of the Chicago Board of Trade last week gloomily observed that their seats now sell at $9,000 against a high of $62,000 in 1929; that the securities division averages only 6,600 shares a day, that corn occupies the main Pit, that Government-pegged May wheat sells 7? higher than in Winnipeg. Also last week, Board of Trade members heard with exasperation that at the University of Illinois Agricultural College Federal farm, Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board, repeating to 3,000 farmers his cry that short-selling...
Down in New Haven the Ear of Young America harkens with Harkness back to an older Old World tradition. Three Reading Periods (stand and bow) are sufficient at least to blow the foam off a jugged brew. Three Reading Periods (roar from the pit) provide plenteous days to sink back into the Mediaeval and quaint Villonesque depravity. Against this melodrama. Harvard offers One Reading Period (now over) and the cheery blue dome of Lowell House reassuring the faithful that God's in his heaven and speaking to His Chosen The Vagabond endorses... and hibernates in the pure driven snow that...