Word: pitting
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...months ago, the Chicago Board of Trade was not only "bearish" on wheat but on its own future. Legislators in Washington and in the State of Illinois vied with each other in proposing new legislation to cripple the "Pit." Farm organizations were calmly planning to take over the grain business in its entirety. Grain traders could make no profits; grain brokers no commissions. Predictions that the world's greatest grain exchange would shortly shut up shop were freely made...
...absorb without visible effort the large amounts of grain dumped on it this spring and summer. Leading Chicago grain brokers declare that any other system of grain marketing would under similar circumstances experience violent breaks in prices, and point to this year's operations of the Pit as conclusive evidence that the Board of Trade markets are efficient and indispensable...
...full of British guilt. After the decent British interval, they marry. A ghostly negroid smell haunts them nightly, requiring Antrim's return to Africa to lay the ghost of Dingaan, a black he sent to find the strayed Rawley. Two skeletons come to light in an abandoned game-pit, clearing Dingaan of a murder he might pardonably have committeed...
...control of the Executive and of a majority in both houses of Congress present so pitiable a spectacle of discord and division? Four years ago the Republican Party, in snarling criticism of the great leader then in office, promised to 'end executive autocracy.' It has fallen into the pit that...
...broad-jumping pit, a dusky form plunked into the sawdust, was lifted out, groaning. De Hart Hubbard, Michigan Negro, had won for America, had made his winning jump despite the excruciating pain of a pulled tendon. Ned Gourdin, Harvard Negro, leaped to second place...