Word: pitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Pat Johnson's and Eddie O'Donnell's squads have both gained only 8 points against Princeton, outcome of the match is a toss-up. Meanwhile undefeated Yardlings pit their strength against the Eli Freshmen in their concluding match of the season. HARVARD YALE Ross 118-pound Mallon Ach 126-pound Hanman Page 135-pound W. Bird Barnes 145-pound Mann Kidder 155-pound J. Bird Daughaday 165-pound Woodland Harkness 175-pound Clarke Glendinning Unlimited Pickett
When the biggest thing on the air is a dummy and the biggest thing in moving pictures is a septet of gnomes America is certainly tottering toward the fiery pit, albeit in a pleasantly pixilated fashion. A nation, like a human being, is most successfully judged by what if does in its leisure hours, and by using the films as an index it is a simple thing to trace the growth of these United States...
...story garage in St. Louis, Mo. one afternoon last week, ten men gathered to watch a fight-to-death between two brindle American pit bulldogs-four laborers, a streetcar conductor, two merchants, three smartly dressed gentlemen. In the centre of the garage, into which rain dripped through the leaky roof, was a crude boxlike arena, 12 ft. square, with an old piece of canvas on the floor. A dirty white blanket was spread on an oil drum, to receive the dead body of the loser. A bucket and sponge were ready to lave the winner's wounds...
...however important, "go through the wringer." Irked at the ICC's allowing RFC to aid H. & O. and its willingness to aid Erie, Senator Wheeler last week demanded that the ICC be reorganized because in creating RFC Congress "never in-tended to pour public funds into the bottomless pit of badly financed railroads...
Last week in Harlem's dingy Lafayette Theatre, while a sophisticated audience squinted and chattered about esthetics, the von Grona blacks were officially presented as Art. In the pit an all-Negro "symphony" orchestra, sporting a single saxophone as a concession to racial idiom, played lukewarm jazz, the Star-Spangled Banner and Bach's Air for the G String. The evening's most pretentious item, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, was played on a phonograph...