Word: pitted
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More credit to her for never relinquishing, save when artistically imperative, a gay, bubbling spirit that is far to seek these days. The book itself is ripe fruit-juicy pulp, rigid pit, tart kernel...
Thereafter, who knows ? If he reaches 15,000 ft. in his present depth vehicle, Dr. Hartman proposes an even stronger, more complicated one to reach Ocean's nethermost pit. There is known to be oil beneath parts of the seafloor. There must also be rarer minerals, unimagined fishes, unguessable vestiges of the planet's youth. And even should nothing of "practical" value be found, the divers may experience the exaltation of explorers as intrepid as any that ever served Science-silent, in an abyss off Darien...
...well seasoned, so that they can understand the jokes. On the last score, no one can bicker with Mr. White. At least six of his japes must have been familiar to Grover Cleveland, but should that august and venerated gentleman return, for a few loose minutes, to visit the pit of a Manhattan theatre he would doubtless laugh roundly at them. For it is the peculiar genius of Mr. White to make an act out of an anecdote, to spin an innocent jest with pipe, tabor, scenery, and bring down his curtain on a guffaw. He does not spare expense...
Then on the 18th (the 108th of the tournament for those two) it was Macfarlane 72 and in the cup; Jones 71 and ten feet away, after a pitch from the pit. Fat Legs smiled, took his stance, struck his ball, missed by inches...
Gleason was injured on Monday while standing near the hammer throwers pit. A hammer hurtled somewhat askew from the hands of a University weight man, and the whirling wire connecting the handle and hammer struck him on the side of the face, making a cut several inches in length...