Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same reason, Ruttman lost it back to Vukovich. And so it went, in a nip & tuck race. With only 50 miles to go, Vukovich, setting new speed records all along the line, had a fairly substantial (31 seconds) lead, but he could see from information flagged from his pit that Ruttman was gaining...
...charcoal sample that was thus dated came from an excavated pit at Stonehenge, the great "megalithic cromlech...
Kangaroo could have been another King Solomon's Mines. It could have dwelt at length upon the mysterious denizens of Australia--aborigines, koala bears, kangaroos, and pit vipers. But it didn't. After spending ten minutes or so exhibiting savages, lizards, and bounding wallabies, Kangaroo turned out to be nothing but a displaced Western. The kangaroos had about as much to do with the proceedings as the man who tears your ticket in half at the door...
...Lehrer proved again yesterday that he is the most original funnyman in this--or almost any other--vicinity. While 500 people filled every seat (and most of the steep aisles), Lehrer and four supporting players turned a Burr Hall auditorium into a laugh pit...
...temperature of the nearby air had no effect. Warm objects could be detected by the pit organ even through the cold air of a refrigerated room. But when a sheet of glass, opaque to long infra-red rays, was placed between the snake and a warm object, it "blinded" the pit. Drs. Bullock and Cowles conclude that the pit is a sort of "heat eye," sensitive to the infra-red rays that come from warm objects. It detects cold objects by giving less response than it does to the snake's room-temperature surroundings. A glass of water only...