Word: pitched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Westinghouse osiso which photographs sound. Dr. White found that 15 stories above ground the numerous small city jangles blend into a definite form, a characteristic ground tone. Each city sings differently, depending upon the number and arrangement of its skyscrapers, trolley wires, tracks, lamp posts. Said Dr. White: "The pitch of London's voice is low C. New York's is like the singing of a wire that carries a 60-cycle alternating current. Chicago's is like the hum of an automobile running without engine knocks...
With Unemployment now at a pitch where the President of the U. S. has had to appoint a special commissioner (Col. Arthur Woods) to work on it, with Democrats full of fresh vim and courage after their party's November victory, it was certain that Democrat Wagner's would figure early and large in the legislative maneuvering...
...Earl of Essex. Author Lytton Strachey's notion to the contrary, Mr. Anderson's Elizabeth (Lynn Fontanne) and Essex (Alfred Lunt) are heroic amorists whose sturdy devotion is thwarted only because they love power more. To indicate her robustness Mrs. Lunt feels called upon to pitch her usually pleasant voice very deep in her throat and to speak her lines as loudly as possible, the effect of which is not unlike a small child trying to imitate her grandfather. And to show that she is taking the part of a woman of about 50 she has made herself...
...come out in the papers where Mack could read it. While the crowd in Shibe Park, Philadelphia, was watching the teams at infield practice and President Hoover marched in with his party, Robert Moses Grove was warming up and a few minutes later the loudspeaker announced that he would pitch...
...long ago the whole educational system from bottom to top was based on the assumption of individual similarity. . . The assumption was that the classical languages, mathematics, and a few other studies varying more or less from college to college would tune up the mind, so to speak, to concert pitch...