Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wood. It was a picture in suave bright colors infused with a slow and graceful motion. There would be a swish of light brilliance above the lawn, a brush of spinning wood on grass, a far-away microscopically delicate click as wood touched porcelain. The game was first to pitch balls into a circle, then to make later balls touch or rest close to the original-like a marbles match, played by dignified giants. When it was over, muttering clipped but vociferous explanations of successful rolls, bundling their complicated silk togas about small nervous bodies, the courtiers of Confucius scurrying...
...forth sour, discordant notes, offensive to the sensibilities of future generals. For the State of New York planned to run a new highway through the academy grounds, not far from the chapel and it appeared that the vibration from countless passing motor cars would be gravely detrimental to the pitch and harmony of the organ's music...
Remembers when his own wooden shots were so short he had to "stick a pitch against the pin to take up the slack...
...planes because of the havoc a pilot would cause by pulling his reversing lever at the wrong moment. The Jenkins device included a safety catch released only by the contact of the plane with its landing surface. When this catch releases, the pilot can "shift gears," reversing the pitch of his propeller blades so that the pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead of forward. If reliable, the Jenkins invention promised to be even more effective than the wheel brakes already in use on land planes. Wheel brakes can be thrown out of commission by a heavy landing...
...surfeits by its very fatness, richness. Too much custard! It must sicken the average mind. Reading TIME is like seeing Hamlet or Macbeth with all the relief scenes left out. Nothing in TIME stands out in relief, because it all stands out, it is all raised to a high pitch, elevation-as if the whole round earth were a continuous, altitudinous tableland. TIME is so intense; no shading, no contrast-all scarlet red unrelieved by any restful, soft yellow or buff tints. It is like a rich full dinner with no salad or soup. To read TIME is to take...