Word: pitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place blue eye, with a film over it"...blood--"bleeding at the pores with dissolution"...the ghastly laughter of a drunken man walled in alive in a dank corner of the catacombs...the hot metal walls of a chamber converging to force a victim into a measureless pit--these objects of horror entered the world when a pale-browed, black-haired dreamer took another half-bottle a hundred years ago. He was a precocious lad. Scarcely out of diapers, he stood on a table declaiming verse, inspired by a glass of liquor. Later trips to the bottle heightened his fancy...
Apparatus similar to that developed in California for diving practice has been installed in the basement of the Indoor Athletic Building. Consisting of straps to hold the diver in the air and a sawdust pit for landing purposes, the apparatus permits the development of good form...
...invaders from the Heights will take their first workout on Stadium turf this afternoon. Indications are that they will fill the air with passes in the holiday encounter with the Crusaders. Against O'Connell, Purple passing ace, B. C. will pit Freitas, who is counted to open up early with a passing attack which features DeVenuti on the receiving end. The Eagle aerial attack is designed to make the running game more effective and to give Chesnulevich an opportunity to break loose...
...years ago Prince Nicholas was roaring over a country road when he came upon a stalled car. A taxi driver once blocked Prince Nicholas' car in Bucharest and Prince Nicholas swiftly kicked him in the pit of the stomach (TIME, April 7, 1930), but this was different. Standing by the car (which had a punctured tire) was a plump, dark-eyed, deep-dimpled Rumanian beauty. Prince Nicholas stopped, descended, bowed and offered to drive the beauty back to Bucharest...
...pit of a grey-walled amphitheatre on Northwestern University's McKinlock (downtown Chicago) Campus last week a short, stocky, professor with a twinkle in his eye told how the deaf may hear through their fingers by means of an invention he had perfected. The profes- sor: Dr. Robert Harvey Gault, 57, for 22 years professor of psychology at Northwestern. The invention: the Gault Teletactor...