Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Planning Organization, to limit all trade to peace-time levels and abandon American shipping except for narrowly defined neutral zones. Rigid control of the credit and finance activities of the country would be essential; also, in order to keep our economic system from becoming geared to a war-time pitch, with the inflation this entails, it would be necessary to control industrial and agricultural production and to fix all prices. Even this does not take into account the dangers of mass psychology. Inescapable is the conclusion that America, by reenforcing positive resistance to the totalitarian states, is promoting...
...machine's possible sound combinations are so various that Voder can imitate the inflections, overtones and shading of human diction. By altering pitch it can change from a man's voice to a woman's or a child's. It can mimic animal sounds, locomotive whistles, the noise of an airplane engine...
...Adolf Hitler's clod-compelling voice. The wave frequency of the Führer's frenetic shouts in a typical sentence: 228 vibrations a second-eight more, according to one authority, than the average person's in anger. Said Professor Steer: "It is this high pitch and its accompanying emotion that puts the German people in a passive state...
...Berlin 8,000 Jewish apartments were marked for appropriation by Nazi tenants. In Munich police officers raided rich Jewish homes for art objects. The Nazi press reached its highest pitch of hysteria...
...whom had never heard of him, gaped in awe at his flying fingertips. Next day the sedate critic of Manhattan's New York Tribune wrote: "It was a question whether an audience composed of discriminating music lovers in this city has ever been stirred to such a pitch of excitement...