Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lady, Mrs. W. Sterling Cole of Bath, N.Y. cried, "I christen thee Seawolf.* Before she could swing the traditional champagne bottle, the sleek, 3,000-ton sub began sliding down the ways. To superstitious seamen, a botched christening means bad luck, but Elizabeth Cole made a last-second pitch, the twelve-ounce bottle of California champagne shattered, and bubbles splashed satisfactorily over the Seawolf's beflagged...
...linen campaign tent, sleeping shelter of General George Washington when he was in the field, was acquired for $10,000 (part of it donated anonymously to the U.S.) by the National Park Service, which will pitch it in a historical park in Yorktown, Va. The sellers: four Virginia ladies, all heiresses of General Robert E. Lee. In the line of inheritance, the old tent went first to Washington's widow Martha, later to her grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, and from him to his daughter Mary Anne Custis Lee, wife of the great Confederate commander...
...throwing hard enough to make his way to a Dodger farm club in Nashua. N.H. There, a mild-mannered manager named Walter Alston learned his first lessons in handling the moody pitcher. And an up-and-coming catcher named Roy Campanella learned how to needle him into game-winning pitch...
...Aircraft Corp., producer of the biggest, most powerful and presumably loudest jet engine, the Pratt & Whitney J-57, is working on ways to reduce its roar to a tolerable level. One method worked out by Engineers John M. Tyler and George B. Towle utilizes the fact that the frequency (pitch) of the noise generated by a stream of gas varies with the stream's diameter. The big stream that shoots from the tailpipe of a jet engine stirs up a lot of low-frequency sound that carries for miles as a thunderous roar. Small gas streams, e.g., air escaping...
Last week Tony stood once more on the center court of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, tuned up at last to the proper pitch for the Wimbledon championship. He had wasted no time getting to the final round, blasting his way past such dangerous competitors as last year's champ, Czechoslovakia's aging (33) Expatriate Jaroslav Drobny, and the U.S.'s Parisian Playboy Budge Patty. Across the net stood Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, an unseeded surprise who had knocked over Ken Rosewall and Italy's Nicolo Pietrangeli to get to the finals...