Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since a pilot's abdominal muscles are strained when he leans forward in the cock pit, they must be developed. One exercise starts with a sitting position. The cadet bends forward obliquely, turning his trunk. Another consists of jumping with feet apart, touching the right toe with the left hand, and vice versa...
Today copper is 12? a lb., not 16?. Yet the Morenci ores, though low-grade, will still yield a profit. When production starts, nine 125-ton electric locomotives will haul 75,000 tons of rock from the pit each day, dump 50,000 tons of waste into the canyons, spill the rest into ore bins. Each ton of ore will yield 21 lb. of copper-a daily smelter production of around 260 tons...
...arrangements, some intricate and flowery, some even incorporating hot instrumental solos, all refreshing and colorful. Even the weaker numbers are dressed up by the orchestrations, until I assured myself that if there was little animation left in the Hit Parade, there was plenty of life yet in the orchestra pit of the musical comedy stage...
After a layoff of only one day, the House football league again returns to action at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon when unbeaten Lowell eleven tang es with a thrice-defeated Eliot squad and the Dunster Funsters pit their strength against Stan Durwood and his Puritan cohorts...
...evening to stars like Soprano Lily Pons, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, Tenor Lauritz Melchior. And San Francisco opera gets its money's worth. Productions, rehearsed aplenty, are well staged, freshly lighted, altogether less dusty than the Met's. The San Francisco Symphony plays with gusto in the pit...