Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth which is removed from the pit is being carried away to the Business School and Soldiers, where it is being used for filling in an old cellar and leveling off a parking place...
Because of recent dry weather, the work is progressing under very favorable conditions. Parkhurst said, adding that the excavations should be completed within the next few days. The University construction gang is using 10 trucks and a "steam" shovel to remove the 10,000 cubic feet from the pit, which will be 28 feet deep on its Quiney Street side and 21 feet deep on the Widener side...
...call on Grove and Cochrane for his battery. Somehow the Theatre Guild has caught its vision by the shirt tails. William Shakespeare is the author, "Twelfth Night" the play; and Miss Helen Heyes and Mr. Maurice Evans are the principals. If Boston continues to leave empty seats in the "pit," as it did on opening night, it has surely passed its "Indian Summer" of appreciativeness and has come to a barren autumn...
Backing up his claim that France was really not beaten, he pointed out that only 80,000 men were killed out of all the fighting forces. "We did not even have a chance to pit our whole strength against the invaders," he added...
Freshman chess enthuiasts will get a chance to pit their skill against a mental giant tomorrow night when John A. Moore '39, formerly known as "the Eliot House madman" and now a Junior Prize Fellow, takes on all comers at an organizing meeting of the Chess Club...