Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samborski '31 is scheduled to pitch for the 1931 nine today. Samborski is not only a capable right-hand flinger but in the Middlesex contest furnished the fireworks with a circuit clout and a triple. B.H. Bassett '31 and E.J. DesRoches '31 are other heavy-hitters who should make things difficult for the Grotonian hurlers this afternoon...
Bold nines scored in the opening frame, but the 1 to 1 tie lasted until J. J. Carver '30 came home on a wild pitch in the fifth to send the seconds into the lead. A really in the sixth, in which Barbour singled, and Ellis and Molloy doubled, brought in two more runs and clinched the victory for the Crimson team. The Beavers scored once in the sixth and again in the seventh, but could not undo the damage done by the second's rally...
...would be cause for bewilderment if a Manhattan theatre season could proceed to its conclusion without interference from the District Attorney. When Maya (TIME, Mar. 5) was offered to playgoers, some one of them apparently found, in its glum survey of a poetized prostitute, the touch of pitch. Last week the wardens of the peace, in the dreary discharge of their duties, promised to arrest any one who attempted to reopen the play after it had been removed from the stage. It was removed...
Planes rise slowly with a heavy load, requiring long (and expensive) landing fields. W. R. Turnbull, Canadian, announced last week that he had invented a successful variable pitch propeller, by the use of which planes can rise more quickly, can even back up. The angle of the blades on his propeller may be changed while in motion, thereby affecting the strength of his motor like a shift of gears on an automobile. The Canadian Air Force tested with optimism...
...scientists this despatch lacked professional interest. Such an operation, although delicate and demanding high skill in the use of fine knives, had been done previously and with relative frequency. But rarely before had human interest been keyed to so lofty a pitch...