Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind, achieves a marimba-like effect on Jie piano which is near-hypnotic in its insistence on repeated notes. Maro Ajemian performs John Cage's Amores, I & IV on a Cage "prepared piano" (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) which gives off intriguing thwacking sounds, graduated in pitch and timbre. Performance: excellent...
...removal of decorative railings and pinnacles, necessitated after discovery of dangerous weaknesses in 1945, precipitated a storm of local comment which reached its highest pitch when one irate alumnus described the process as comparable to "drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa...
...boys, would be turning over a $2,000,000, 36-acre campus (built in his own regime) on the edge of Cleveland's suburban Shaker Heights. Its assets included a big-league style ballpark, three football fields, 13 tennis courts, a quarter-mile track. Peters used to pitch on the faculty team himself, until a few years ago could beat the school's ace tennists, still does daily...
...merits of Honus Wagner and Marty Marion. He had passed the stage of collecting picture cards and autographed baseballs, when his yearly trip to Yankee Stadium had assumed the proportions of a pilgrimage to Mecca, but increased sophistication and the price of a grandstand seat had served only to pitch his interest on a slightly more detached plane...
Sometimes, he does not even seem to like the Dodgers; he hurt rather than helped three promising players by tongue-lashings that shook their confidence; last season, Little Vic Lombardi hardly dared pitch a ball without looking to the dugout for Leo's nod. Leo's smart assistant, Coach Chuck Dressen, now with the Yankees, spent much of his time reinflating egos. (Some belittlers, exaggerating Dressen's importance, think the Dodgers won't be the same without him.) But Leo's lip also pays off. Against the Chicago Cubs last season, the day was getting...