Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealers about Wurlitzer's nickel-in-the-slot music machines. Of his expensive clambake he said: "I can't afford it, but we can't beat those Democrats with firecrackers. . . . The New Deal : . . will fall of its own weight, but we must get in and pitch today and kill it before it kills...
...ablest Third Termite cartoon-a paraphrase of Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson's remark of last fortnight that "duty" might compel Franklin Roosevelt to run again (TIME, Aug. 15). While the President in uniform stands contentedly on the second (term) sack and a harassed elephant pitcher stands afraid to pitch lest the runner steal third, Mr. Manager Michelson runs out on the diamond shouting: "Aw quit worryin' about him! He ain't gonna run-that is he ain't unless he's forced...
...discovered the accident's cause: The pilot had taken off without a long enough run, and his plane had stalled because of inadequate speed. They discovered also on the ship with which they experimented that a mechanism had been installed to limit the forward movement of the propeller pitch-control lever. They looked for a similar mechanism in the wreckage of the crashed plane, and found it. The investigators concluded that the crash would probably not have occurred even after the pilot's error, had he got full emergency power from his propeller when he threw the lever...
Meanwhile, he studied at the New School for Social Research, was co-founder of a serious little magazine called the Economic Forum. During vacations he played in tennis tournaments, was good enough to enter the Nationals at Forest Hills. He also became "pitch-golf" champion of Broadway, saw every play. In his own plays, he admits sheepishly, he cannot make the women come alive...
...than that of any other club. Even more unprecedented was the fact that two of them were rookies, and one, 22-year-old Johnny Vander Meer, who had skyrocketed to fame a few weeks earlier when he won two no-hit, no-run games within five days, was to pitch the first three innings...