Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Hobo took Tossy to the washhouse of No.1B mine. Changed into pit clothes, he walked across to the shafthead, only 55 ft. from the Atlantic shore, and rode 670 ft. down in a coal cage in less than a minute. Because the seams run far under Glace Bay, Tossy's Orphean journey was just beginning. Next came a long ride in a motor rake (a train of coal cars pulled by an electric locomotive) to a point 1,800 ft. below the sea bed. Then, on the No. 6 incline rake (a cable car), Tossy rode...
...Firebird, Stravinsky had hinted at strange rhythmic innovations-accents that lurched and stuttered. In Petrouchka, he had chords embracing chords that were not even kissing cousins. In Rite of Spring, he had gone a greater distance in dissonance, and pounded the sounds home with all the drums the pit could hold...
...does is to furnish son Ben with a blackmailing stranglehold on his tyrannical father. Son Oscar is just a born ninny; he tries hard to be a stinker but he hasn't the talent. But the other three would make a quarrelsome day in a bear pit look insipid. Now & then, as they shift grips on each other and set-to all over again, their unmitigated hellishness comes very near absurdity. But they are never undramatic...
...first heat will pit the Crimson against B.U., Rutgers, Penn, and Yale. Rutgers pulled up a lame third against the Crimson on Lake Carnegie two weeks ago, with Penn in the same position last week. B.U., a novice in the art of crew, is not looked upon with fear, leaving Yale as the only strong contender...