Word: pit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fleet would plunge the U. S. into a defensive crisis. The U. S. Battle Fleet would have to go streaking for the Panama Canal and the Atlantic. The Pacific, to all intents, would have to be abandoned to Japan. And in the Atlantic Admiral Richardson might conceivably have to pit his great force against an armada of British, French, German and Italian ships, outnumbering him in tonnage more than...
Like a zoo, the mammoth Main Hall (where engineers have installed an anti-museum-fatigue invention: two pyramid-like seats topped by Beniamino Bufano's sculptured animals, penguin and bear) encloses a large central pit, where, hacking away at a huge granite head of Leonardo, stands Sculptor Fred Olmsted. Helen Forbes works on an egg tempera. Dudley Carter, ex-logger and machinist, hews away mightily on 20-foot redwood sculptures with a double-bitted ax. German-born Herman Volz and 16 assistants work on a huge mosaic. All around the hall, busy as mud-daubers, miscellaneous painters, sculptors, weavers...
...they could see, cocked their ears to hear (on their auto radios) what they failed to see. After 200 miles of monotonous droning-with only two minor crack-ups to break the monotony-the race began to get exciting. Shaw, who had been leading the field, stopped at his pit for new tires and a tank-load of fuel (alcohol). When he returned to the track two-and-a-half minutes later, he found Rex Mays, Mauri Rose, Ted Horn and Joel Thorne ahead of him. For 60 miles he chased them. As they momentarily dropped...
Three all time greats will perform in the Stadium, pits and on the Stadium cinders. Georgetown's gargantuan Al Blozis, a Sophomore, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall and who weighs 240 pounds, and has a well nigh perfect physique, may develop to be one of America's greatest weight men. He already holds the American record in the 160-pound shot put at 55 ft. 10 1/2 in., and he may break this record, the I.C.A.A.A.A. record, and perhaps Jack Torrance's World Record in the Stadium pit, which this week has been enlarged to accommodate Blozis...
...town. When construction began in 1938 on the $36,000,000 Shasta Dam, devised to stabilize Sacramento Valley's water supply, engineers built a ten-mile belt line to convey 10,000,000 cubic yards of gravel to the world's No. 2 dam. For their gravel pit they chose Christ Kutras' tract of land...