Word: pitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nicks were coming from - and topped off the U.S. phase of his career one night by leading Detroit's Fox Theater orchestra through a performance of Ravel's Bolero before a full house. He was the theater parking lot attendant, and the men in the orchestra pit had noticed him leading them from the stage door night after night. On this occasion they marched him to the podium and played his favorite composition under his baton...
...singer. Some of them had heard her at first with reticence and then with applause in postwar concerts at Cannes, Paris and London. Many more of the same kind of folk were on hand at La Scala when the first notes of Tristan und Isolde sighed from the orchestra pit...
Williams will provide the Varsity hockey team with its final workout before the impending trok to New Haven Saturday when the two teams face off in the Arena at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Preliminary afternoon contests will pit the Freshmen against New Prep and the Jayvees against the G.B.I. All Stars...
...Violet, Sons and Lovers, Up Front, Eugene O'Neill's Plays, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Villon's Poems, Candide, Owen Wister's The Virginian, Rimbaud's Season in Hell, Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Ward's The Snake Pit, Wakeman's The Hucksters...
...Frederic A. Gibbs of the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute, who at 43 is a patriarch of U.S. encephalographers, was unimpressed. Said he, scorning a challenge to pit himself against the machine: "The analysis looks like the work of a feeble-minded encephalographer...