Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Symphony players get their pitch by sounding an A at the start of every concert. But A, the gold standard of music, has undergone a heady inflation in the past 100 years. The august London Philharmonic Society in 1813 tuned for its first concert from an oboe-sounded A set at 847 vibrations a second, two vibrations above the century-old tuning fork of George Handel. Then at the Congress of Vienna, military bands discovered that by raising the pitch of their instruments they could ring out sharper fortissimi during the day and crisper waltzes at night...
...seems to be a feature of Hollywood contracts now that at least once a year every actor on the lot pitch in for a huge all-inclusive party, which is then passed on to an eager public as a star-studded extravaganza...
Paul ("Dizzy") Trout, well rested, calmly polished his glasses after nearly every pitch, and polished off the Cubs with five hits. Score: Detroit 4, Chicago...
...pony run, he jump, he pitch...
Which gains in pitch until I see Dim, distantly a void...