Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pitch dark laboratory at Leland Stanford University, a band of scientists listened expectantly to a whining roar close by them. At two points in the blackness, 20 feet apart, flickers of light appeared, dancing white, blue, violet, spreading and leaping towards each other as the roar increased. Thousands of flaming lances stabbed the night horizontally, creating the halo of glowing purple known to electrical engineers as the "corona," a sign of wasting power. The crackle of sparks intensified, culminating in a fierce explosion, as a broad, jagged ribbon of blue-edged white flame leapt across the room from electrode...
...Pitch-soaked torches roared high one night last week in the public courtyard of the Central Prison at Angora, A Death-lured crowd, chattering expectantly, hushed as four tripod gallows were erected. Eerie as ghosts in the flickering light, four white-clad condemned men paced silently from their cells...
Booth, who will pitch if Cutts does not, worked for seven stanzas against Holy Cross in his last appearance. Though he was hit freely throughout and allowed eight runs in the first and second innings, he pitched shut-out ball after that until removed for a pinchhitter in the Harvard half of the eighth. Against Brown in the opening game, he relieved Cutts in the seventh and blanked the Bears to gain credit for the victory after Harvard forged ahead behind his pitching in the last two frames...
...Booth to Pitch Today...
...TIME, May 25, 1925), More than ever impressed with the enormous weight and diversity of the knowledge humanity has been harvesting for itself in the past century, Dr. Frank pondered the problem of acquainting freshman and sophomores with the nature of the entire crop before turning them loose to pitch, thrash and store a special portion. He concluded by wondering if there was not great merit in "project" studies as advocated by Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn and others-assigning to underclassmen single historic episodes -perhaps the Greek civilization in the freshman year, and the 19th Century U. S. for sophomores...