Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test between the two was battle of brains over a set of questions selected by the one and only Professor Quiz, who made a special trip to Cambridge to pit the two adversaries against each other...
...barbecue pit, 50 feet long, was dug in the yard of the Governor's mansion, in what had once been a rose garden. Sixteen groups dished up the food at the rate of almost 200 plates a minute. The Governor himself had shot the buffalo, from a privately owned Texas herd. (Said he: "... They had the whole county out to watch. . . . They were there to laugh when they thought I would miss my shot as the thundering herd of wild buffalo rushed by ... so they had a crack shots-man there to kill the wild beast in case...
...began to posture in a slow dance. The other man inserted himself between the couple, reared up impassively, slithered like Bill the Lizard down the male back to the floor. That over, the three handed around arms and legs with poised abandon. In the pit, the orchestra sounded tentative about what sounds it would make next, a little anxious about what it would hear next from the solo violinist, who was worming a long, crawling melody from his fiddle...
Ethel Waters does four of her songs from Cabin in the Sky for Liberty Music Shops, unfortunately with the pit orchestra from the show. Honey in the Honeycomb sounds best...
Opposite Brown in this event, Hal Ulen will pit his promising Sophomore dorsal artist, Bill Drucker, who up to this point has not been defeated in Varsity competition. In winning against the Alumni and M. I. T., Drucker was not pressed, and it remains to be seen what time he can hit when under pressure...