Word: pitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chagrin Falls. Out from the mountainous, forested pit of Bellefonte, Pa., Gethsemane of eastern airmail pilots, flew National Air Transport's Thomas P. Nelson last week. As he headed west for Cleveland thick snow flurries hid him from the ground. At snow-blown Cleveland Pilot Nelson was late, by minutes, hours, days. Col. Lindbergh, onetime flying companion of the missing man, flew his own machine over the treacherous Alleghenies to join 25 other planes in a systematic search of northern Ohio. Presumption was that Nelson was forced down by ice forming on the wings of his plane. Wing...
...pit ceded to France until 1935 by the Treaty of Peace of Versailles. In effect, German Chief Delegate Dr. Karl von Simson asked: "How much will you take...
Brown will pit the following men against the Crimson: g., Crane; l.f.b., Connor; r.f.b., McGinn; l.h.b., Schweicker; c.h.b. Gill; r.h.b., Walls; l.o.f., Hervey; l.i.f., Rasmussen; c.f., Taite; r.i.f., Ingerson; r.o.f., Roberts...
...wheat market, to the Farm Board's large concern, has been on the down grade of late. In the Chicago pit last week prices for December delivery slid from $1.25 per bu. to $1.13, recovered somewhat, closed at $1.23 per bu. Last July the same wheat stood...
...Angeles, marking cuts whenever the audience stopped laughing. Best shots: Lloyd's account of his love-affair with a girl whose picture he obtained from a photomaton machine that functioned faultily; the fight with the dope ring; getting the police commissioner's fingerprint. The Devil's Pit (New Zealand). None of the many cameras searching out strange races of the world has ever caught one in the process of creating its legends, yet it is easy for people who have never seen any Maoris to believe that these in The Devil's Pit are not modern...