Word: pitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night owls developing a hungry feeling in the pit of the stomach as the lamp oil runs low have been finding it difficult to plan their midnight snacks at local cafeterias in keeping with the regulations of the Truman food program...
...bored and witless fashionables" delighted in the lectures of a quack named "Doctor" Graham. For his lecture on The Female, Graham used a half-clad model called the Goddess of Health (she was the beauty who became Lady Hamilton). For another, on Earth-Bathing, he sat naked in a pit of earth while explaining how much better it made his skin and blood feel. The big feature was the Celestial Bed, which would "rectify such physical impediments as impotence and sterility." To use it for a night, with unascertained results, a childless duke paid Graham a fee of 500 guineas...
Next door to the Varsity practice gridiron is a field commonly known as the Blood Pit. No one seems to know who dubbed it so, but football players like the name, for the play on their field is always violent and sometimes gory...
...marked the Jayvees last year and this year looks to be about the same. Chief Boston runs the squad as he did last year and already it seems to have picked up the esprit de corps of past Boston teams. The strictest disciplinary measure they use at the blood pit is to keep offenders out of scrimmage...
With Steep Rock grossing upwards of $8,000,000 a year, Eaton has no intention of cashing in his paper profits. He now plans to open up four more open-pit mines, boost output to 5,000,000 tons in a few years. The Mesabi range is approaching exhaustion and Eaton is sure that he can sell all the ore he can mine for years to come...