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Working in the "pit," a windowless sub-cellar of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. Dr. Robert S. Mulliken, National Research Fellow has for the past five months been carrying out elaborate researches in band spectra, almost unknown to the University at large...
...indications that the world supply of wheat for the coming year would be larger than previously anticipated, wheat prices in the Chicago wheat pit have slumped for some time. The fear has even been expressed that the price of a bushel of wheat might descend below $1.00 on the present movement...
Plays New and Old?The Halls?The Pit...
There is also that great British theatrical institution, the pit. You stand in line at the door for a length of time in a length of queue depending upon the success of the play?then the whistle Wows and you all crowd in and try to grab the nearest available seat to the barrier that cages the pit-devotees away from the swells in the stalls. Thus, if you don't get your eye gouged out in the rush, you obtain what would be in I New York a $2.75 orchestra seat for a good deal less. The pit need...
...John Ervine, author of John Ferguson and Jane Clegg, produced in this country by the Theatre Guild, recently wrote an article in a London paper discussing bad manners in the theatre. He suggested that a sort of pound be established in the pit for the herding together of late comers. Thus they could see the play without disturbing the rest of the audience...