Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard-Yale relay was easily the high spot of the evening, the crowd reaching its highest emotional pitch (excluding the one-minute silence for founder George V. Brown) when Lightbody bore down upon and passed Gardner Millet in the last stretch of the dramatic race...
Always hard to overcome the midyear layoff and get the team back to game pitch, Fesler has really been working the netmen in the last few practices. New plays to spruce up the offence and work on a tighter defence have been the order of the day, while general conditioning has also been emphasized...
...could review a career that reached its third inning in the 1926 World Series (between the Cardinals and Yankees) when, after a night of carousing in celebration of two victories for the Cardinals, he was called from the bullpen at the crucial point of the crucial game to pitch to Tony Lazzeri, with the bases full of Yankees. Lazzeri struck out. Alexander was the hero of the year. When, four years later, he stepped out of major-league baseball, sportswriters extolled Pitcher Alexander's 20 years of major-league play, his National League record of 373 victories...
McNamee calls the attack vicious. Few with an objective viewpoint can call his running description less than vicious. It is a definite incitement to war. Preceded by a resounding ballyhoo of advance publicity the pictures seem definitely keyed to a war hawkian pitch. Few will deny the American people the right to see the pictures, but it is hardly too much to ask that the producers do not attempt to stir up a war fever in an effort to sell their pictures...
This is an odd beginning for a comedy-and comic True Confession is skillfully played and paced, keyed up to the pitch of the dizziest haywire skit. Yet what makes True Confession funnier than most haywire comedies is that as melodrama it could be just as effective. Neither liar Helen nor Kenneth, the man of principle, is caricatured, so their dilemma seems true and could be terrible; outside the hilarity nightmare is imminent...