Word: pitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill Daugherty, breastroker, for the Red and Blue, will offer the Crimson butterfliers a good race in the 200 yard event. He has been swimming it under 2:38 this season, somewhat better than the local efforts. Coach Ulen will probably pit Walker and Waldron against him, retaining Max Kraus for the medley...
...staggering, says the author, was the only physical exercise he ever took. > In Bourg, France, where van Paassen lived for a time, he stopped to chat with a gravedigger, said he was on his way to Paris to write political notes on Laval. From the bottom of a slimy pit, tossing up half-rotten skulls to make room for a new corpse, the gravedigger shook his head and said: "A dirty job, la politique, Monsieur Pierre, a very foul business...
...band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant (Grant) gets trapped by Thug Guru (Eduardo Ciannelli) and is almost thrown into a pit full of hungry cobras. Typical sequence: battle between a regiment of Scots Highlanders and Thug cavalry, filmed on the slopes of Mt. Whitney last summer, with a cast of 900 extras...
Nevertheless, International's bright-eyed, nickel-grey-haired President Robert Crooks Stanley announced last month that Frood had begun open-pit mining. By last week, these new operations were fast approaching a fixed-quota yield of 4,000 tons of ore a day. This is low-grade ore, expensive to smelt. But open-pit mining is much cheaper than shaft mining and-more important to smart President Stanley and International's 90,000 stockholders-combination of the two methods will assure an average grade of ore for many a year, will put off the day when even Frood...
Across a deep pit, the faculty of Arts and Sciences has traditionally glared at the faculty of Education. Its antipathy has arisen from the attitude that a Graduate School of Education is little more than useless and from resentment of the inference cast by the latter's very existence that there is more to teaching than a knowledge of the subject taught. This attitude is merely a single instance of a general attitude to the same effect that teachers are born and not made, that teaching is an art which no amount of training in the science of education...