Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visitors opened the scoring in the first. Ingalls, who had recurrent streaks of wildness all afternoon due in part to the high wind, walked three men and scored one with a wild pitch...
Also on foreign territory this afternoon the Junior Varsity team will play Governor Dummer. Royall Victor '37, who has been pitching in Varsity batting practice this week, is to pitch for the Crimson with Howard E. Thunberg '38 on the receiving...
Harvard plays its first game of the Eastern League season at Princeton this afternoon. For the Crimson Ed Ingalls will pitch while the veteran Dick Bell goes to the hill for the Tigers...
Serge Taneiev's First Symphony in C is also to be played. Taneiev (1856-1915) was a noted Russian composer and teacher whose compositions have in late years been almost neglected. This symphony, written in 1898, is hardly one to arouse enthusiasm to a fever pitch, but it is not without a certain "perfection of formal beauty", as one writer...
...that time Southerners used only one method of getting pitch out of a pine tree: Slash the trunk about waisthigh, let it drip into buckets. Some 12,000 farmers are still collecting pitch by gashing their pines with "catfaces" and having it distilled into 80% of the naval stores produced in the U. S.* In the early 1900's, when Southern lumbering was at its peak, a new steam process for extracting turpentine directly from, sawmill waste was introduced, and a new byproduct, pine oil, not present in the gum of the living tree, was found. It is this...