Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Kaiser was working at the same feverish pitch which permitted him to build Boulder Dam two years ahead of schedule, by which he cut the time for constructing a Liberty ship from 105 down to 46 days. He was frankly indulging in a vast piece of bluff; he frankly wanted the Army and the Administration to call his hand; thus, in the old American way, he would get a chance to make good or shut up. Bluntly he told the Senate Committees that his plan would not cut into the bomber program. He said he was planning to prepare...
...Received uncomprehending feminine stares to slangy suggestions: "Like to pitch a little woo, baby...
...powerful archaic open scale which artisans and farmers still knew from the Middle Ages, but which the musically literate upper classes had begun to scorn. In Boston the one-eyed crippled tanner, William Billings, was even bolder. He got the cello into church, and the much more needed pitch pipe. Against the ancient unison of the psalms he offered "fuges." For greater dissonance he recommended the braying of an ass, the filing of a saw, the squealing of a hog "who is extremely weak," the "cracking" of a crow, the howling of a dog, the squalling...
...variable pitch propeller was necessary because the two-cycle diesel cannot be reversed, without heavy reverse gears. Like the light diesel engine, variable pitch marine propellers have baffled naval engineers for many years. Reason: the hub mechanism, which changes the pitch of the blades, broke down whenever the propeller churned the water vigorously. Design of the tough, new propeller, which is electrically controlled, is a military secret...
...There are some girls at Radcliffe Who live just like the dead. They study hard from morn to night And sleep in an empty bed. Although they live vicariously They're sad and lonely, too-- Because they have no Harvard Freshman With whom to pitch...