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...contract by having the paper seller of the beans pay him his profit in cash. At the Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade (CBT)-where more than half the commodity action takes place-and other exchanges, such transactions are made in a bedlam of shouting and waving by "pit traders" who do the buying and selling for brokers forwarding orders from clients...
Despite an encouraging performance against a veteran star-studded New England Lacrosse Club, the Crimson ten fares the storm next week in a southerly jaunt which will pit it against two of the best squads in the country...
...round robin on Saturday will pit Harvard with the Boston Lacrosse Club, Wesleyan, and Tufts, all on the Business School Field...
CERGYMEN are turning over faster than parishioners--some of them because they can't take it. The clergy today are much more liberal than their parishioners," Thompson said. "People only want a nice warm feeling in the pit of their stomach from a sermon. You can see them close their minds when you try to convince them of anything different. The older members of the church think the church belongs to them and they just want to be left alone. I've been beating my head against the wall trying to get them to change that idea...
...stage is a hexagon, not much larger than a cockfighting pit. Four playgoers apiece are seated in wire-meshed chicken-coop enclosures. Visually, the audience becomes ghostly to itself, a spectral collection of selves in limbo, seemingly bodiless...