Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When she could hide him no longer, she got a wicker basket for him and calked it with bitumen and pitch. (From the translation by the Jewish Publication Society...
...that no civilization, East or West, attained a greater refinement in the decorative arts than Edo Japan. Ceramics, lacquer and textiles were brought to an extraordinary pitch of aesthetic concentration by a large body of artisans whose collective skills have never been surpassed, in Japan or anywhere else. And skill was key. Edo artists and patrons loved virtuosity within a given medium, but they didn't have a hierarchy of art and craft. To them, the work of the lacquerer or the papermaker was no less worthy than that of the screen painter, and in any case so many media...
...left it was that everyone would pitch in when they had something to say," Lee said...
They shatter a wine glass with a high pitch sound, use a ripple tank to demonstrate wave interactions and blast off across the lecture hall in a carbon dioxide-propelled rocket. Who are the people who perform these spectacular demonstrations during science lectures...
...beware of his "reality-distortion field"--Jobs drove Apple's engineers to build not just good but "insanely great" products that would "make a dent in the universe." He lured PepsiCo's designated heir to his Cupertino, Calif., headquarters with what may have been history's craftiest job pitch. "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water," he asked John Sculley, "or do you want a chance to change the world...