Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lasser, who habitually deals with recalcitrant State Legislatures by parking his followers in the Chamber, appeared with a few early arrivals in the Senate galleries just in time for adjournment. By the time the rest of his legions had poured into Washington in chartered busses and ramshackle autos to pitch their tents in West Potomac Park, there was no Legislature to intimidate. Lost, moreover, in the adjournment shuffle was the bill the march had been organized to support : a proposal introduced by Washington's Senator Lewis Schwellenbach providing for: 1) no further reductions in WPA rolls, 2) reinstatement...
...changing the design of its propellers (deepening the pitch and adding a fourth blade), the S. S. Normandie last month recaptured the Atlantic speed record (TIME, Aug. 16). Even more striking are the results that have been attained in the last four years by changing the design of airplane propellers. Until 1933 there had been only two major improvements in the paper airscrew invented by Leonardo da Vinci some 450 years before to pull toy helicopters to the ceiling of his study. One was the Wright Brothers' development of a two-bladed '"prop" of laminated wood, the other...
...evening last week, the S. S. President Jefferson tied up in Manila harbor and 376 refugees, evacuated from Shanghai three days before, disembarked on the dock to the gay music of a Marine band. An hour later Manila's brightly lighted water front was suddenly plunged into pitch darkness. The dock on which the refugees were standing in confused groups began to shake. With a terrifying roar the roof above split apart. "They're bombing us again!" screamed a woman refugee. Another shrieked: "Is this another...
...such deep-rooted "the-show-must-go-on" tradition as exists in the theatre, for one reason because baseball's cast changes every day. So when Gomez started to walk out onto the field last week to warm up for the game he was scheduled to pitch against the Senators, the Yankees' bulky manager, Joe McCarthy, approached him with a sympathetic look on his face and a telegram in his pocket, told him that his mother was dead. "You don't have to pitch today, fella," said McCarthy. ''Your time's your own until...
...Rock) in 3 days, 22 hr., 7 min., fastest crossing in history. Since she had just made a westbound trip in 3 days, 23 hr., 1 min., she acquired, all in ten days, both eastbound and westbound records. Her increased speed is attributed to new propellers with a deeper pitch, and four blades instead of three...