Word: pitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture taken, while Harry Hopkins and James Roosevelt welcome arrivals into a New Deal Heaven. Cherubs above the President's head are Vice President Garner and Postmaster General Farley. In the right hand corner Herbert Hoover, with pitchfork, smiles at Alf Landon on the brink of a fiery pit containing Al Smith...
...expected to excite interest in some form of get-together sport among their charges--and ministers of the various churches in the Square. Moving pictures will be shown, tea served, and acquaintanceship encouraged. Thus the first unofficial move in recent years to lift solitary Freshmen from the pit of despair is about to go into practice. If successful, more power to the charity...
...before the Class of 1941 has had time to fall into the pit of indifference, let us say a word about Harvard museums. In brief, they come under four classes, the University Museum, the art museums, the graduate school museums, and the miscellaneous museums...
...guerrilla commander of the White Russians, General Semenov (pronounced Sem-yon-off). At Irkutsk, while our train was delayed for a fews hours, I hired a scared izvoztchik (cabby) to drive me around the downtown part of the city. Fresh shell scars on the public buildings and a great pit in the public square containing several hundred lime-covered bodies were mute evidences of a recent raid by Semenov. Farther east our train was forced to spend a day at Chita because the single track east of there had been torn up in a clash between Bolshevik and Semenov troops...
...fine weather Carnoustie and the nearby Burnside course, over which the qualifying rounds were played, are no harder going than any seaside course with tight fairways and pit-pocked greens. Horton Smith of Missouri, whom a slump had kept out of the Ryder Cup play, stroked out two smooth 695 to win the medal...