Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly into Inokovka rode three officials of the Soviet circuit court: Tovarisha (Comrades) Simokin, Karpov, Diubin. Humbly the peasants begged not to be punished for falling short of their sparrow quota. Good fellows, the circuit court officials joined with enthusiasm in the sparrow hunt. Fearing, however, that the district Soviet authorities at Yelan might be harder-hearted, the peasants, shrewd, sent a very pretty girl, Comrade Emelianova, to intercede with the district boss, Comrade Vorobiev...
Moscow guffawed privately, took a dead serious official view. Pravda, official news-organ of the Soviet Regime, demanded that the three circuit court officials be recalled to Moscow, tried and severely punished "for making the State appear ridiculous," for not having had the wit to know that Dictator Stalin, whatever else he may do, does not order sparrows "kept ready...
...course; part of it seemed almost perpendicular. On the run the packed icy snow had just enough surface to give Chiogna steering purchase as he shot downward on his special skis-the skis of a fairytale, fantastically long and heavy. Five electric control stations shunted into a 150-metre circuit measured his time. On the long skis Chiogna crouched in the Schneider position invented by Tyroleans who cannot use on their steep slopes the erect position of the Norwegians. A diminishing spot on the peakside, he shot down into the valley, while his passage automatically formed the connections that told...
...those years when the Yale game doesn't crown their season, without disappointment to their own undergraduate following. This deficiency could be remedied, we believe, by the inclusion of enough strong eastern elevens in the final contests of Yale. Harvard and Princeton to occasion an annual three-game circuit of equal interest. By admitting Cornell, Columbia and Dartmouth to concluding contests, the six institutions would have three hard matches to wind up the season, and no hard feelings at all. Also, there would be tradition in the making, and even in football tradition, change is the only constant. --The Dartmouth...
...undoubtedly were not informed that Mr. Michel had appeared in or briefed cases in causes in the Supreme Courts of probably a dozen States, that he has often appeared in and briefed cases for the Federal Courts, including the Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court...