Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity track team overwhelmed M.I.T., 76 1/2 to 27 1/2, last night, in an absolutely overwhelming meet in the Snake Pit. Coach Bill McCurdy was saving his front-line performers for Saturday's epochal clash with Manhattan, so the times, heights, and distances were none too great. But then, they didn't have...
...just a piece of live manure and he knows it. When he looks around after his drink and smiles at us, the world seems to be falling to pieces. It's a smile thrown across an abyss. The whole stinking civilization lies like quagmire at the bottom of the pit, and over it, like a mirage, hovers this wavering smile...
...test for the varsity comes on Dec. 16 against Manhattan. Fortunately the meet is in the local Snake Pit, which almost insures a Crimson victory...
...each fraternity) surrounding a large, noisy, unattractive dining room (soon labeled "the Pit") for the independents...
...eaten. The children may lie on the floor and chat with each other while the teacher recites the lesson and, if even that bores them, they are free to wander outside to play among the jungle gyms, the playboats and sandboxes, the swings and the barbecue pit. If a teacher asks for a composition, she is the one who gets out the pad and pencil; the student will dictate it to her and she will type...