Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three weeks, the Crimson nine has a Saturday afternoon home game tomorrow, entertaining Northeastern at Soldiers Field. Game-time is 3 o'clock. The Stahlmen won a 6 to 4, ten-inning decision over the Huskies two weeks ago at the Northeastern diamond. Jack Farley is expected to pitch for the Varsity...
...batted in--Callanan. Two-base hit--Shields. Bases on balls--off Berg, 4. Struck out--By Berg, 4. Wild pitch--Berg...
...that Russia is unequal to the task. Russia has been on the offensive and it is Hitler who now has his back to the wall. The "Help Poor Russia" cry will soon change to "Jump On The Band Wagon Before It Is Too Late." If we fail to pitch in now Russian diplomacy will dominate the peace table...
...their spasms of typing in rhythm; in the glass-enclosed room the announcer faces the mike; the newsman is timing his four minutes flat, with a minute commercial; the expert is typing his views of elastic defense; and there sit the bored technicians behind the dials, keeping the pitch of sound in hand, as it goes on the wires to a hundred cities and off the antennae to a hundred million ears. It blats in the taxi, it roars over the public-address system, it speaks in the mess hall, in the midnight coffee stand; and it flops against...
...traditionally short memory of the public, but relying also on the Press's often undiscriminating weakness for headlines and for "stories" that people will like to read, a number of excellent political minds in Britain and America have brought the art of news-giving to a pitch of brilliance approaching that which news-gathering has achieved. Analysts of this art, think they have seen some masterpieces. They believe...