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Word: pit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday, the worm turned. Favored Brown toppled before a smoothly functioning J. V. machine, and the denizens of the Blood Pit could hold up their heads again. After two months, one-man-coaching-staff McCabe had brought his team into the win column without interrupting the system of cooperation with the varsity. As for Yale, "We'll do all right...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Unsung McCabe Comes to Harvard By Way of Tailback, Wingback, Iowa | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

This means that the Tigers will remain the three-point favorites they are tonight, come sun or high water. In an effort to beat these odds, Valpey will pit the same lineup that downed Holy Cross against Charlie Caldwell's veteran Princeton team...

Author: By Burt Glinn, | Title: Crimson Opposes Favored Princeton in Big 3 Opener | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

...night, 41 years ago, the Budapest Opera, had a crisis of another sort. It was nearly curtain time, and the conductor was ill. Who would conduct Carmen? In desperation, the director grabbed the 18-year-old singing coach, and ordered him into the pit. "I had no preparation," says Fritz Reiner of that night. "It was sink or swim. I swam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fulfillment in Manhattan | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Even as the freshman football team enjoys top billing at Soldiers Field this afternoon, behind the barricades of the Blood Pit the Jayvee squad takes on Leicester Junior College. It will be the first game of the season for the Jayvees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCabe's Jayvees Oppose Leicester | 10/9/1948 | See Source »

...team starts at nine in the morning and ends at six in the evening with a brief break for lunch. Last year, the Crimson named the jayvee's field the Blood Pit. This fall, for the long gruelling sessions marked by hard contact and spirited battles between the squad's members for varsity positions, we name the varsity area the Blood Pit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Look Brightens Soldiers Field | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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