Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hammond Electric Organ, first marketed three years ago, is no larger than a piano, has no reeds or pipes. Pressing a key on the Hammond keyboard generates a minute electric current with an oscillation frequency corresponding to the pitch of the desired note. The current is relayed into a reproduction cabinet where it becomes a musical tone...
Hearing and studying the Hammond, Western Union engineers decided that its tone generator was well suited for producing carrier currents of different electrical frequencies, tried it out with gratifying success. The currents are separated in pitch by 300 cycles. A generator adapted to Western Union's purposes costs about $1,000. By this technique the company sends telegrams from Manhattan to Chicago, Washington, Buffalo, Atlanta. Practical effect of the Hammond-type generator will be to reduce the number of wires necessary for intercity service, thus saving a sizable chunk of maintenance costs as the unnecessary wires are retired from...
...seagoing notions. Light (70 tons), fast (26 knots), she was powered by three engines totaling 2,000 horsepower, to be replaced later with a central Diesel for cruising, two light, air-cooled airplane engines for speed. Newfangled were Designer Fokker's automatic stabilizer, a vertical variable-pitch fin that works like a steerable centre board; and a stainless steel anchor that fits itself into the ship's bottom about 20 feet from...
Scheduled to pitch was Johnny Vander Meer, the Reds' rookie southpaw, who had pitched himself into baseball's Hall of Fame four days before when he won a no-hit, no-run game against the Boston Bees in Cincinnati. Practically the whole of Midland Park, N. J. (his home town) was in the stands to greet him. Dodger Pitcher Max Butcher threw the first ball, and the fans settled in their seats...
With the bases loaded, with two out and the count two and two, Pitcher Vander Meer, who had struck out seven batters, thereupon made the pitch of his young lifetime, a fast one. Dodger Leo Durocher, a dangerous man in a pinch, brought ear-splitting Brooklyn cheers as he was put out on a fly to center. Young Johnny Vander Meer had won (6-to-0) his second no-hit, no-run game. Far, far rarer than two holes-in-one at golf, two loos at trapshooting, two 300s at bowling, it is the pinnacle of U. S. sporting performance...