Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haven't seen poetry in motion, watch Carl Elder pitch his next no-hit no-run softball game. These P. T. ball games are already stratified socially, with the Weirs and Wells and Kirchenbaums forming the major leagues and the dubs without experience making up the bushes. All have fun, especially when watching Martin Marshall's juggling act of a fly ball...
...assault on Europe reached its fiercest pitch yet. In seven days more thark 25,000 sorties (one mission by one plane) were hurled against Hitler's Fortress from bases in England. More than half the planes were four-engined U.S. and R.A.F. bombers: they laid better than 32,000 tons of bombs...
...trusted friend sitting next him at a ball game is a homicidal maniac. The story is strenuously pasted together for laughs, but some of its comic assault & battery hits the funnybone, while Red Skelton, his idiotic beard and imbecilic lack of interest in the game he is supposed to pitch, sometimes conflict humorously with the maniacal seriousness of Ebbets Field baseball...
...Inventor Turnbull was building Canada's first wind tunnel. Later he concentrated on aircraft propellers. To test homemade ones, he constructed a 300-ft. railway, mounted props on flatcars, learned which kinds had the greatest pull. His neighbors thought him mad. The upshot: patents on an electric controllable-pitch propeller, for which he draws royalties from such war-busy plants as Curtiss-Wright and Britain's Bristol Aeroplane...
With Bob Coleman of Rockhurst and Ed Johnson of Occidental giving the boys the pitch in Company I, the irrepressible "Queenic of the Burlesque Show" is making a fresh debut. The arched eyebrows of our seniors may be an indication of its reception...