Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest job is in the south-east corner of the Yard, where three steam shovels are still excavating for the new undergraduate library. Hindered in their efforts by the recent rainstorms which transformed the pit into a small sized lake, the workmen expect to complete excavation within two weeks...
...thus becomes fairly obvious that the situation should be remedied, but there are also reasons for maintaining the status quo. One is that any student walking through an open Wigglesworth Gate would immediately fall into the half-mile-deep pit on the other side. But there is another, far more important reason. The closed gate suddenly brings the hard facts of life and reality to the sheltered Harvard man. Faced with an unequivocal "No," he tries the next passage, and there he sees stark, unyielding rocks, and gets dust, from which he has always been hermetically sealed, in his eyes...
...Arthur Horner was jailed again. It was not until seven years later that some of the Maerdy mines were reopened, but they ran at a loss and had to be sold. The owners were beaten, but so was Maerdy. Today it is a silent town in which not a pit wheel turns...
...willing to see Europe get $5 or $6 billion-but no more. If Europe's recovery could be bought for $5 billion instead of $15 billion, that would be fine. On the other hand, if $5 billion gets Europe only a third of the way out of the pit, $5 billion would be a waste, and $15 billion might be a good investment...
Manno Wolf-Ferrari usually conducts at Venice's La Fernice opera house. In Paris, three French conductors joined the pit orchestra, just to get the hang of Italian opera from "Little Manno." If they learned nothing from his fine, sure beat, they learned something about making do in an emergency. On opening night Manno dropped his baton into a crack in the floor just as the curtain was going up and couldn't fish it out. He sent a violinist for something to replace it, conducted part of the first act with the rung of a chair. Said...