Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Treating the weekend crowd to an exhibition of air-tight baseball, the Crimson nine made it two in a row this year over a powerful Pennsylvania aggregation when it duplicated its 3-1 victory of last month. Captain McGrath's triple and Wood's circuit clout provided the necessary punch to edge the solitary tally that the Quakers were able to eke out against the crafty delivery of the red-haired Harvard moundsman, MacHale...
...Lincoln study of the White House the President read his speech. Out of sight of him a radio control operator checked his words from a printed copy of the address. Explained Columbia: "When Mr. Hoover finished all that was on the copy the control man switched the circuit back to the announcer to sign off. But the President continued talking, speaking extemporaneously for about two minutes. He talked into thin air?not over the radio. . . . Clyde Hunt of WMAL, Washington committed the offense...
...bore can wear out the Castle patience. His social circuit about Washington is wide and continuous. At his S Street house near the Woodrow Wilson residence he provides frequent and elaborate hospitality. (The Castle family, with its Hawaiian holdings in banks and public utilities, is wealthy.) Late in the afternoon he can generally be found swimming in the Racquet Club pool...
...turned left, the driver looking for a place to park. Obviously, it being eleven o'clock in the morning, there was none. On up the Avenue, around the corner to Broadway, still no place. Down Quincy Street and back onto the Avenue again, and so once more around the circuit, and still fate defies the driver. Of course there was nothing left to do but to return to Dunster House...
Judge Wilkerson allowed the Capone lawyers 30 days in which to ask the Circuit Court of Appeals to take jurisdiction for a review of limited points. Meantime, their client went free on $5,000 bond...