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Word: pits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other touch football games Friday will pit Houses against their traditional Eli rivals. Dunster, if they lose the championship will face Berkeley; if Winthrop is defeated is is slated to face Davenport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 13 Intramural Teams Will Face Yale Squads in Contests Friday | 11/18/1958 | See Source »

Massachusetts elections have never had the notoriety of those in Long's Louisiana, or the predictability of Vermont's. Traditionally, the Republicans pit a Puritan Beacon Hiller against a Democrat recently arisen from Boston's South End. This year the situation has changed: for one of the two major state posts, the Democrats have nominated a fair-haired boy from the upper classes, and the Republicans have chosen two relatively unknown political hacks in their nearly hopeless campaign effort. All four candidates are united in one respect: they are mediocre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choice of Evils | 10/29/1958 | See Source »

...company, which had been in Springhill for a very long time as Canadian mines go, had at least some faith in Springhill's productive capacity and kept its mine going. Last week in No.2, about 167 men on the night shift felt the pit floor heave upward and they knew Springhill was in the publicity game once again...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: They Can Take It | 10/28/1958 | See Source »

...Tomorrow I could easily be second, then third, and eventually last. As for the cheering crowds, I never heard them. When I race, the only thing I can hear is the purring of my engine, the only thing I can see is my manager's signal from the pit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great Man Retires | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...surefire system is to take some typical or moving theme -nuclear fallout in On the Beach, race prejudice in The Chequer Board, homeless children in Pied Piper. He weaves in plenty of stirring incidents and peoples his pages with strongly sympathetic, highly moral characters who land deep in a pit of trouble in the first chapter, are often still there by the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pluck & Poignancy | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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