Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yourselves!' and the daughters ran out. The Germans shot him dead in cold blood outside the church. We saw the two daughters. One was about 16, the other about 14, and they spoke with animated excitement in curiously high-school French that didn't change tone or pitch when they said: 'They shot papa. He died right away...
...Another string of bombs started to whine down. The noise . . . starts high in pitch and slides down the scale. . . . And the longer it whines the closer it seems to get, until you are sure that when it does explode it will be at the back of your head...
...rheostat. By pressing the finger on it at any given point, the player controls the amount of electricity that goes into the instrument's generator tube. Depending on the amount of current that goes into one of the grids of the tube, the vibration frequency which controls the pitch is changed up & down...
Keyed to a high pre-game pitch, Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity quintet will open the 1944-45 hoop season tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building against the Carrier Aircraft Service Unit from the Squantum Naval Air Station...
Victories last Friday and Saturday over Milton Academy and Medford High have smoothed out some of the weaknesses in the Crimson attack and have keyed the team to a high pitch for tomorrow's important match against Brown...