Word: pitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lesser Republican, Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, made so bold as to stage a formal Hughes rally in Manhattan, explaining that the one-time Secretary of State, onetime U. S. Supreme Court Justice and "best mind in the Republican Party" was the only man to pit against Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith for the votes of Business and Labor. Celebrities were few at the Fish-Hughes rally, but Boomer Fish was not rebuked by the Party chiefs...
...lateral pass to the leading comedian (Gus Shy, who really is funny). Thus, the game is won; future generations of Tait undergraduates will be able to hold up their heads before the world, and everybody marries in Junior year. George Olsen's band makes the music?in the pit and on the stage. Zelma O'Neal does an educated black bottom, called the campus drag, which explains why some fellows will never, never leave Tait...
...Millikan's audience was Dr. Werner Kohlhoerster of Germany, cosmic ray specialist who last year announced from an observation pit in the Alps that he thought the rays emanated, at present, chiefly from the northeastern heavens, where the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda are giving off enormous quantities of energy from spiral (star-forming) nebulae (TIME...
...first things Christ will do upon his return will be to put Satan literally into the bottomless pit, and then do away with all sickness, all airplanes and all wars. For those Christians who are still alive there will be no death...
...Coliseum, ancient Chicago political bear-pit, was last week the scene of a Northern Baptist convention. Oldtime revival songs swelled 5,000 throats until the Rev. James Whitcomb* Brougher, presiding, cleared his throat and keynoted: ". . .Let us keep the spirit of unity...