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Word: pitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bidding fair to repeat last year's win and to break a few records in the bargain, the Varsity track team will pit itself against the almost untried Princeton cindermen in the dual meet Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TRACK TEAM FAVORED OVER TIGERS | 5/2/1935 | See Source »

Concluding the interview, Vallee stoutly asserted that he wants "to die in harness." No retiring to a life of case in Florida or California for him. "I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rudy Vallee Believed He Would Be Somebody Outstanding in Anything That Involves Feeling | 5/1/1935 | See Source »

Swish! The body fell, jerked the rope taut. Then it spun a little, the toes of De Boe's shiny shoes poised a few inches above a puddle of water in the pit beneath the gallows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of De Boe | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...dates 1885 and 1935. What happened there in 1885 has long been a matter of history: Dr. Leopold Damrosch was mortally ill with pneumonia and his 23-year-old son saved two performances by conducting for him. Last week Walter Damrosch was in the Metropolitan's pit once more, not to say farewell but to celebrate a golden jubilee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jubilee | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

Just as Left as Left can be is the Theatre Union on 14th Street. It puts on bright Red class struggle dramas, such as the current arraignment of West Virginia mineowners. Black Pit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 8, 1935 | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

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