Word: pitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, as World War II boomed forward from its overture to its first act, there was again a small disturbance in the orchestra pit. In the provincial English beach-resort town of Hastings, Conductor Julius Harrison of the local Municipal Orchestra announced that he would ban Wagner from the coming season's programs. Said he: "Wagnerian music is the prototype of Nazi aggression. It is heavy and militant and reminds one of Hitler...
...Touché it is, right in the pit of the mythological dictionary...
...Last spring Horse & Horseman selected Woodward's 19-year-old Marguerite?whose four colts (Petee-Wrack, Gallant Fox, Fighting Fox and Foxbrough II) have earned over a half million dollars?as the most eminent broodmare in America. When in 1923 William Woodward felt that he was ready to pit his thoroughbreds against the best in the U. S., he began to race...
...Sidney Hillman, backed him up with an eloquence and alacrity which clearly reflected C. I. O.'s larger interest in the situation. Homer Martin, president of U. A. W.'s A. F. of L. wing, snarled back at them that the strike was an "outlaw" designed to "pit a few hundred skilled workers against more than 100,000 production workers...
...Foreigners report an improvement in Chinese fighting technique. Chinese trenches are no longer individual pit-holes, but are long, connected "Western style" ditches. Furthermore, Chinese troops are now transferred by night instead of day, as they used to be, and hence are not so severely bombed from the air. Machine-gunning by the new Japanese recruits is reported as bad, while the percentage of Japanese artillery duds on all fronts is rising...