Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel & Wire Co. (U. S. Steel subsidiary). Dr. Braid offered as evidence sound waves photographed this spring at Niagara Falls. The sound of water falling from a great height, or the echolike undertone that falling water makes, shows from 30 to 42 cycles of vibratory waves. Thunder's pitch is considerably higher, starting at 50 cycles and crashing sometimes as high as 40 cycles above Middle C (261 cycles). Wind may moan at 100 cycles, whine as high as 600 cycles. Not even Niagara can go so low as the big bassoon or the brass tuba...
...there is one telephone television circuit in regular operation. One end of it is in American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s offices at No. 195 Broadway, the other in the Bell Telephone Laboratories at No. 463 West St., Manhattan. Anyone trying it out goes into a small pitch dark booth and waits until the image of the person at the other end, the size of a desk-photograph, flickers on a little lens. Voices in telephonic television boom resonantly and recognizably (they are carried over regular telephone wires) but the image on the little screen is uncertain, like a snapshot...
Bases on balls--off Shaw 5, off Maish 6. Struck out--by Shaw 4, by Maish 5. Wild pitch -- Shaw. Passed ball -- Armstrong. Time of game...
Harvard started the scoring in the first inning, McCaffrey counting for the first score on DesRoches's long three-base clout to right field, being soon followed by DesRoches himself, who scored on a wild pitch. The veteran guardian of the hot corner found himself a bit yesterday afternoon, poling out three hits out of five times up. McCaffrey also showed up much better at the bat than he has previously, collecting three safe hits out of three chances...
Like Daniel Vierge, the painter who regained with his left hand the skill which he had lost with an accident to the other, Dr. Newell learned to pitch a baseball underhand after an injury prevented him from throwing in the usual way. The writer met Dr. Newell last winter just after he had returned from a 43-year ministry in Japan and Korea as a Christian teacher and worker for international peace-quite truly a grand...