Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus possible to analyses sounds of both higher and lower pitch than the human voice, as well as sounds more than an octave higher than the piano...
...Only one pitch, however, is admitted at a time. The sounds of each frequency or pitch are admitted through the filter for a small fraction of a second and deflect a spot of light, generated by a cathodes ray tube, along a horizontal line in proportion to their strength. The sport, moving back and forth as higher and higher pitched sounds with different intensities are admitted, is photographed on sensitized paper and leaves a line graph. This graph is a picture record of the noise, showing the relative loudness of each of its component parts...
...investigate the cases of 30 San Franciscans who had died of acute gastritis or kidney ailments within the fortnight. The puzzle was only partly solved when a barrel of pure sodium fluoride was found among the soda barrels in Rosenthal's store. As excitement reached fever pitch, the city toxicologist announced that Albert Perry and daughter had died of natural causes after all and a restaurant dishwasher swallowed a spoonful of soda which had not come from Rosenthal's, died in convulsions...
...robed judge, were not bewildered because all aspects of the trial had been listed with forethought and precision on a sort of "score card" for the jury's special benefit. The defense lawyers, temperamental as prima donnas, opened with shouts for more chairs which soon reached the pitch of shrieks...
...backbone of the boycotters. None of those who resigned returned. There was a great buzz-buzz-buzz of angry oratory in which the museums were roundly denounced as rackets. About midnight, with the aid of words and whiskey, the Society members had worked themselves up to such a pitch that they were ready to cripple every art show in the land to win their rental crusade...