Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century ago last month Victor Hugo's Hernani was presented in the Theatre Français. Violent young men with red velvet waistcoats shouted themselves hoarse in the galleries, banged the heads of equally violent young classicists in the pit. With their passion for exactness, French professors have chosen that date as the beginning of the movement in literature and art known as Romanticism, the age of Sentiment. The Parisian art world has made much of the Centenary of Romanticism this winter. But until last week New York's only notice of the occasion was the appearance...
Down a swaying rope into a black, hot pit, 1,350 ft. below the earth's surface, 325 ft. lower than anyone had ever gone there before him, slid Frank Ernest Nicholson, journalist-explorer, into the unmeasured depths of the Carlsbad Cave in the Guadalupe Mountains in lower New Mexico. Last week came reports of his expedition, begun in January (TIME, Jan. 27). He told of nightmare rock formations, of crystal clear water and perfect cave pearls in a subterranean pool. While he was drinking, a feeble chirping split the stifling black silence. He investigated, found a nest...
...gets close to it. It is an enormous block of metal, almost rectangular in shape, of dimensions nine by ten feet, and a thickness varying from two and a half to almost four feet. When first found only a small part protruded above the limestone; since then a pit has been dug all around it which shows the full extent of the meteor on all sides. On the northeastern side the pit has been excavated to the depth of eight feet, and in this way the compression of the layers of the limestone under the meteor can easily be seen...
...brief period last week the Chicago Board of Trade supplanted the New York Stock Exchange as the dominant U. S. speculative force; the Pit held the Floor in thrall. Stock quotations closely followed grain prices, and the procession was almost steadily downward until the last day of trading...
...University team A will pit the same five men against the Boatmen that have comprised the first squad personnel all season, with the exception of Donald Frame '32 in place of A.W. Patterson '32. Frame, who last year was also Freshman tennis captain, has risen in the last week to a first-team berth from Team...