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Word: pitches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that interest in Freshman intramural baseball arises each year is ample testimony that the project is worth while. As such, it is worth doing well; dormitory managers should make a real effort to keep interest at a high pitch and men who sign up to play should report at a majority of the games. It would be an unjust imposition on the H.A.A. if Yardlings allow their league to fizzle again when a small amount of conscientious effort would keep it alive and successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BATTER UP | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

...talk of certain other "constants" which varied widely enough to be clearly detected, and also of the possibility that all the constants may vary in amounts too small or over a time too long to permit detection. By last week the talk of inconstant constants had reached such a pitch that to the ears of interested laymen it was an uproar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Constant Uproar | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Sentiment and strong, traditional rivalry will be cast in relief tonight as Crimson and Blue sextets pitch battle on the Garden ice in what may be the most exciting battle of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mermen Sink Middies; Sextet Closes Season With Elis | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

Shortly before her death "by accident" in Vilna, Dzjunka betrayed Rasonski to Napoleon as a Russian spy. When her confession of this brought from Rasonski only an affectionate squeeze of the arm, even Dzjunka had to admit that her husband's masochistic gallantry had attained heroic pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slippery Pole | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...everything stops for tea." And contemporary wags have added that British workingmen would stop a revolution for a soccer Cup Final. As the soccer season last week reached a point something like the Fourth of July in U. S. baseball, discussions in pubs and clubs rose to a fine pitch of excitement. Although Brentford, a London club, was leading the First Division, with 14 wins and seven draws for a total of 35 points,† another London club, Arsenal, was widely fancied to end the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: September to May | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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