Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity lacrosse team ran out of gas a little bit too early yesterday, as a strong New Hampshire squad ran off seven goals on a swampy Business School field to win, 10 to 6. The game was originally scheduled to be played today, but the switch will pit the Crimson against Brown this afternoon...
...short, he is not the passionate Dmitri Karamazov whom Dostoevsky envisioned--the enormously complicated sensualist who could cry out, "When I do leap into the pit, I go headlong with my heels up, and am pleased to be falling in that degrading attitude and pride myself upon it. . . . Though I may be following the devil I am Thy son, O Lord, and I love Thee...
...economy. As a device for the complete internationalization of foreign aid, however, its effectiveness is doubtful. Russia is not a member of the World Bank, and therefore the transfer of United States aid effort to the IBRD and the I.D.A. would simply mean that aid competition would now pit the Western alliance (instead of the United States alone) against Russia...
...many events, the Crimson has some of the second-best swimmers in the East, but unfortunately, Yale has all the best. Against Crimson star butterflier Hammond, who swims about 2:15, Yale will pit champion record-smasher Jecko, who performs...
...president of the Harvard Opera Guild, Lewis M. Steel '58, agreed with Stinson's staging proposals, but added that an "orchestra pit, a turntable stage, and fine acoustics" were necessary to produce opera successfully...