Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There A Criminal Justice?" Edmund M. Morgan, Bussey Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, will introduce the speaker who will be entertained at a private dinner before the lecture. Mr. Darrow spoke here a few years ago to a packed hall which he raised to a fever pitch of excitement by his oratory. This lecture on Saturday will be closed to everyone except members of the University and may not be reported by the papers...
...Hello, everybody," said he. "You know I don't make speeches; I make cars. . . . I think 1934 will be a very good year for everybody that works. . . . We have all got to pitch in and do all the business we can to help the President pull the country out of the hole...
...Boys' Club of New York, husband of smart, vivacious Repealist Pauline Morton Sabin; of cerebral hemorrhage, after long illness; in Shinnecock Hills, L. I. His varied, steady-climbing banking career began when he, a flour mill clerk, was given a job by an Albany bank so he could pitch for its baseball team. France and Belgium decorated him for his Liberty Loan work. An ardent golfer, he was treasurer of the U. S. Golf Association...
First Game. Betting odds for the series were 10-to-7 against the Giants, but odds for the opening game shifted to 4-to-3 pro-Giant when the bookies learned that lanky Carl Hubbell would pitch. Hubbell's tricky "screwball" was considered the Giants' prime defense against the American League's hard-hitting Senators. It began to work right at the start when Hubbell struck out the first three men on the Washington list-a feat for which sport writers could find no world series precedent. The Senators' long-jawed Manager Joe Cronin kept...
...double sent Davis in with the third run. In all that time only three Senators hit Schumacher, and none passed third base. Now, in the last half of the sixth, with two out, young Schumacher blew up. Manush singled, went to third when Cronin repeated. Schulte lifted the first pitch into the left field bleachers and the score was tied, 3-to-3. After Kuhel and Bluege both got on base, Manager Terry nodded to "Pop"' Luque. No trace of dismay showed on Luque's wrinkled face as he trudged to the mound on short, bowed legs...