Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he took over the settlement, Baranov was left without a sailing ship. He built his own. He mixed native moss with hot pitch for calking, used mountain ash for hardwood. He set Russians and natives digging for coal and iron, made waterproof paint from whale oil and red ocher. His ship had three masts, two decks. For sails Baranov commandeered tents, trousers, jackets, sewed them into great sheets with seal gut thread...
Festivities were begun when Captain McIntosh of the Supply School belted Business School's Dean David's first pitch into left field. Captain Kevin of the QMC who was behind the plate thus wasn't given the chance of fingering the horsehide...
...digs out the core of a 2-to 3½-ft. log. He does his digging through a 3-to 4-in. slit running the length of the log. The wood on one side of the slit is thicker than that on the other to provide a difference in pitch between the two sides...
...Junior Statesman School (the brain child of Montezuma's smart headmaster, Ernest Andrew Rogers) is no ordinary civics course but a working experiment in grown-up democratic politics. Back in their own high schools, Montezuma's moppet statesmen organize chapters along the lines of their State government, pitch into local politics when and where they can. Typical project: In Long Beach, Junior Statesmen originated and pushed through the fingerprinting of the whole town...
...fans it looked like the good old days. The Babe, swinging two bats, stepped up to the plate with choppy little strides of his matchstick legs. Farmer Johnson shuffled awkwardly around the mound, his long right arm winding up the historic sidearm delivery. The first pitch was low and inside, the second a called strike. Ruth popped the third into right field, the fourth was ball two. Then the crowd let out a mighty roar as the Babe walloped the ball up, up, up into the right-field stands. Fourteen pitches later, he clouted another, trotted around the bases...