Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noticing the steep pitch at which Burr Hall's plush-backed seats are set, some people have claimed that examinations there would strain Harvard's keep-temptation to-a-minimum policy. But this danger is only present in courses whose exams require terse and short answers. Since final exams in most courses are of the essay type--it takes more than a quick wandering plance to gain any profit from a neighbor's essay--this objection is quite limited and easily overcome...
...inning. Lead-off batter Bill Contini reached second when his grounder to second was thrown wildly to first by Joe Conzelman, and George MacDonald, backing up, threw wild to second. Contini scored on John Mansfield's long double to left center field. Mansfield went to third on a wild pitch and scored when short stop Paul Murphy booted Scot Gerrish's grounder...
Robert H. Williams of Santa Ana, Calif, has still another pitch. Williams, onetime ghostwriter for Columnist Upton Close, publishes a monthly newsletter, Williams Intelligence Summary. In mid-1951, he carefully trimmed a 1945 news photo of four Allied generals toasting the Allied victory in Europe, at which time Russia's Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov presented Eisenhower and Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery with Russian victory medals. The Williams version left Ike and Zhukov alone in what was intended to look like a suspiciously friendly pose (see cut). Williams printed and is still circulating the picture with the caption...
...than anything else in A Long Memory is the fine evocation of place, and the descriptions of the bleak lower depths of river life. In Thus Am I Slayn (TIME, April 5, 1948), Author Clewes flashed his talent but failed to make his meanings clear. In this book his pitch is plain. But it is possible to praise him and still raise the question that a lot of gifted minor English writers prompt: Why doesn't he tackle something bigger...
Roas Shepherd will be the dominant figure when the freshman baseball 'B' team plays Belmont High at Belmont this afternoon. Shepherd, a righhatnder, will pitch and but in the cleanup slot for the Yardlings. The freshmen are looking for their second straight win, having beaten it. Sebastian's, 17 to /2, earlier in the week...