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Word: pitching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silver is refined by the cyanide process," he continued, "and is packed out about 78 miles by mule-back in the form of bricks. That trail is no little promenade even in the daytime; but we found ourselves on it one evening in the pitch dark and rain with five miles of the hardest stretch before us. It is no fund picking your way along with a roaring torrent about 1000 feet directly below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McLAUGHLIN DESCRIBES SUMMER TRIP TO MEXICO | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

...Victor Aldridge of Pittsburgh by such a wide margin that Pittsburgh had little chance to win. Even here, however, Pittsburgh errors helped the Yankees in their two scoring innings, Outfielder Lloyd Waner duplicating his brother's first game error in the third inning, and Pitcher Aldridge making a wild pitch in the eighth. ¶ Errors apparently could have played no part in the outcome of the third game, which the Yankees won 8-1. Pitcher Herbert Pennock permitted no Pittsburgh player to reach first base until one man had been retired in the eighth inning. Against such pitching no game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World's Series | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...competent set of actors. Noah Beery is quite himself; and Roland Colman will be sure to please those of upper Massachusetts Avenue. As for the rest, Alice Joyce, Neil Hamilton and Ralph Forbes do their utmost by the film, and keep its acting and atmosphere at the high pitch which have already given "Beau Geste" such long runs...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: "BEAU GESTE" COMES TO THE FOOTHILLS | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

...things at night." Using infra-red rays, on the long-wave edge of the spectrum of visible light, and an infra-red-sensitive cell of which Inventor Baird alone knows the secret, the Baird "noc-tovisor" transmits by wire or radio an image of a person sitting in a pitch-dark room. Some of Inventor Baird's admirers went to London to converse with and look at him, 200 miles away in Leeds in his dark room. They saw his long, hungry face with pince-nez and haystack hair, not perfectly but most recognizably reproduced. Over the telephone they asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Leeds | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...only a few years ago since Mr. Healy, referring to the oppo- sition, called it "a number of persons whom we have never heard of before except in connection with explosions and assassinations." These words aroused the Free State to a high pitch of indignation and pride. "Tim's off again,"was the most indulgent of the remarks passed on the sidewalks of Dublin. But "Tim" did not give "two hoots" what anybody thought and everybody knew it. And even if the opposition has come to be better known and less associated with assassinations, "sure and to goodness thair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Irish Dissolution | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

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