Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week the President let pass the deadline for taking his name off Illinois' preferential primary ballot, thereby raising Third Term talk to its highest pitch...
...first threat to the question mark Crimson squad came from a rejuvenated Big Green outfit. Last fall Coach Karl Michael of Dartmouth began talking about a victory over Harvard as the climax of his first year at Hanover. He worked things up to a fever pitch for the Harvard-Dartmouth tank meeting a month ago, but the Crimson squad only unfurled a bit more of its power in completely humbling the Green. Next came the threat from Brown, and here again Harvard won as it please. Neither Springfield nor Columbia could ever be regarded as more than interesting workouts...
...preparations of the Anglo-French bloc in the Near East . . . leads us to think that we are not faced there by a mere diversion limited in scope and character, but by far-reaching strategic plans." Fortnight ago First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill invited Scandinavia (among others) to pitch in and help defeat the Nazi-Bolshevik combination. British public opinion was last week discernibly dissatisfied with the present "defensive" course of the war and more voices than ever demanded action. Most forcible expression came from the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Leopold S. Amery, in a London speech...
...Girl describes provincial ennui and sexual despair with a good deal of intensity. The Drunkard, the best thing in the book, is a scalding and ghastly story of speak-easy newswriters, a maladjusted comedian. If uneven Author Ryan ever tightens the whole of his talent to that pitch, he will have justified his bold ambitions...
High & dry on three floors of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace were 115 motorboats, 35 sailboats, skiffs, prize-winning racers, gadgets, motors, motor fuels. Outstanding gadget: The Hazard Tension Meter, a mandolin-style sound box tunable to a pitch pipe, to attach to yacht rigging for determining desired tautness. Based on a complicated device used for years on America's Cup Defenders, the popular Hazard comes to merer skippers at $25. Outstanding motor yacht: a 57-foot, superluxurious, poly-gadgeted Elco cruiser with clipper bow, flying bridge, streamlined superstructure, berthing a party of six, crew of two. Price...