Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have traveled past the Course and wondered about the great big tall telephone pole way up in the air with the dangling ropes-- that is the treat. It is just enough to keep everyone happy. Beneath these dangling ropes is a pit, twelve feet across and five feet deep. The object is to spring the forty yards between obstacles, jump six feet, grab the rope and swing across the chasm to the other side. Another spring of forty feet, another hurdle and then the dessert, (boy, what a meal.) Everyone likes a large, sweet, mouth-watering dessert. The Obstacle Course...
...firm floated 39 separate issues for Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada and other countries, totaling $1.8 billions, on which the firm made a net of about $9.5 millions. In addition it arranged $68,000,000 of loans for foreign corporations. Yet even at the very pit of the depression these loans stood up with remarkable strength. By 1933 40% of them had been redeemed or retired, 33% of them were selling above the offering price, and none was in default...
...College bridge players pit their skill against an English professor and one of the nation's foremost experts on the game in an exhibition match to be played at Phillips Brooks House Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock...
When the Republicans won 44 seats in the rat pit and nine in the most exclusive club in the world I didn't say, "That's the finish for the New Deal. The people are getting wise!" Later, when Republican leaders indicated a willingness to support New Deal war policies, I didn't say, "Now we're cooking with...
...stands, retreats and counterattacks; the Wehrmacht's losses at Smolensk, Rzhev and Moscow; the men and weapons spent, the weeks forever lost at Sevastopol; the spaces of the Ukraine, the Kuban plains and the upper Caucasus, conquered but nonetheless expensive to their conquerors; and, finally, the pit of Stalingrad. No one of these great battles, sieges or marches in the greatest campaign of history exhausted or defeated the German Army. But in the aggregate they saved Russia and they saved the Red Army...