Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through as they were made known to the Debating Hall of the Union. It was crowded with undergraduates and as the results came trickling in and it was seen which way the poll was going the cheers and counter cheers of the different parties roused excitement to a fever pitch. In the University election one of the Candidates returned is in favour of the admission of women to the University, so there will be many feminine hearts made glad as a result...
...present prospects are that sales will reach high figures next year. During the present year production capacity has increased, and very great extensions of automobile plants are now nearing completion. One thing that seems certain is that the automobile industry in 1923 will reach an unparalleled pitch of competition. Probably there will be notably fewer competing automobile firms in 1925 than there...
...when the score stood three all at the end of the tenth inning. Darkness was falling fast, and in the opinion of the umpires a continuance of play for another inning was impossible. Not so said the crowds in the bleachers, whose emotions were already keyed to a high pitch by reason of the closeness of the score. The game was called, they reasoned, in order to permit the baseball "magnates" to pocket the proceeds of the game, whose total considerably exceeded $100,000. The crowd had to find something tangible upon which to pour the vials of its wrath...
Some of the bodies were painted over with pitch and went to adorn the Isle of Dogs, a custom which had the warm approval of Townsend, the worthy old Bow-street runner, as a warning to sailors who might be disposed to murder revenue officers. So Kidd, as we say, did not set the fashion in these matters, when he came down to take his place on the gallows set on the uncovered beach when the tide...
...probable that Coach Clark will start Jefferies on mound today, though he has been unable to pitch recently because of a bad arm. Captain McPhee is the outstanding star on the visiting team. He has done consistently good fielding this season and has stood well up on the batting list. McIlvaine, however, is the star batter having scored a triple and a double against the Giants...