Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indoor Athletic Building at 8 o'clock tonight the freshman quintet, led by Ed Smith, its newly-elected high-scoring captain, will pit a ten-one record against Northeastern's yearlings...
...long they can keep up this carefree sauntering is problematical, for this weekend brings a doubleheader to the schedule, and the next four weeks will pit Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale against the swimmers. Tomorrow's meet should be the toughest match until Penn, for the Green holds a 4-2 record, having lost to Yale and Williams after topping its first four opponents. Saturday night will find Springfield in the pool at the Blockhouse...
...dramatic interest when a minister (Joe E. Brown) steals the dog and faces trial and jail rather than return him. But everything is comfortably fixed up before this conflict between legality and sentiment can seriously excite or embarrass the audience. Except for some ugly moments around the dog pit, and the irreducibly likable Mr. Brown, who plays it straight and sweet, the picture is a pathetic miss...
Later that night, the trumpeting din of elephants fighting aroused the sleeping zoo. The zoo director rushed to Chang's pit, found him attacking Mandjullah. On the floor he found Rietmann's dead body. This time there was no one to plead for Chang. At dawn the keepers' rifles cracked four times. Chang, the elephant with imagination, was dead...
Three or four nights a week, he has an odd, recurring dream. He is an athlete in a jampacked, outsized stadium. He takes off for an efficient, unspectacular broad jump. But he suddenly soars past the pit and over the heads of the officials, zooms right on over the stadium wall in a long, majestic arc, and wakes before he lands...