Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commander-in-Chief's subordinate flag officers. Commander-in-Chief, Its political officers can make or break the Navy. Its Chief of Operations, who corresponds to the Army's Chief of Staff, can, if he is capable, key the whole service up to a zestful pitch of efficiency. But it often remains for the Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, as the nation's first seaman, to leave the most memorable stamp on the Navy. Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's regime as Commander-in-Chief (1932-33) is remembered for the mass operations around Hawaii...
...scurrying to their telephones. Mortgage-ridden farmers soon heard tales of fabulous land prices. One who had been trying to sell his plot for a few hundred dollars was offered $1,500. "I wouldn't take $4,000 for it now," said he. Storekeepers got ready to pitch hot dog stands near the orchard, talked of building a hotel as a state-wide oil rush seemed imminent. But Cleveland Petroleum Corp. had quietly leased most of the land around the orchard, shut the public...
...game scheduled tomorrow against the St. John's Prop outfit, who downed the Crimson in a game earlier in the season, and another with the strong Holy Cross team on Saturday, the Freshman squad will be hard pressed to continue their high average of games won this year. The pitching situation will be acute, as it is doubtful whether Tommy Bilodeau could stand up under the strain of two successive games. Dick Walsh may pitch, however...
...took him through Central America and Mexico, but many a peak in Darien, or even the depression of a valley, set him musing on an inner landscape. When he wants to, he can be as descriptive as the next 20th Century citizen, as in this definitive portrait of the pitch lake of Trinidad: ". . . The real pitch lake is simply about 200 asphalt tennis courts, in very bad condition, set in the midst of some gently undulating green meadows." But he usually saves his penetrating glances for the scenery of ideas: "The truth is that our so-called wars of interest...
...Avon To Pitch...