Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abraham Flexner, director of the Institute of Advance Study in Newark, N. J., in a new book just published, criticizes American universities for teaching "rubbish", and charges that the Harvard School of Business Administration is undertaking to "short circuit" experience, according to an announcement made yesterday in New York City...
Ruth Roland is one of the few active survivors of the cinema's early group of stars. Like-Alice Joyce and Irene Rich she has kept up her vitality and good looks. She was a headliner on the Keith Circuit when she was five, nearly 40 years ago. She went to high school for two years between road-shows. Since the days of her thrillers (Ruth of the Rockies, The Timber Queen, Ruth of the Range, The Tiger's Trail), one of which she wrote and directed herself (The Adventures of Ruth), she has been out of pictures. She built...
...Supreme Court of Oregon. An active Republican, he attended as a delegate the National Conventions of 1896, 1900, 1920. At the last he began a political feud with Senator Hiram Johnson by nominating Calvin Coolidge for the Vice Presidency. In 1925 President Coolidge nominated him for the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the Senate refused to confirm the nomination...
...that Bill Robinson, "The Dark Cloud of Joy," is the world's greatest tap-dancer, announced at a recent convention of the American Association of Dance Masters (TIME, Sept. 8), is shared by many. For more than 30 years he pranced around Benjamin Franklin Keith's vaudeville circuit. Two years ago he entered musi-comedy with an appearance in Blackbirds of 1928. If he was not the first man to clog up and down a set of stairs, he is certainly the foremost practitioner of that routine. The later or developed Robinson period is probably...
...entry, a Ford 7-AT monoplane powered by one Wasp and two Wright J-6 engines. The winning pilot, Harry L. Russell, took the lead of the 18 contestants early in the 4,900 mi. race, gradually increased it through the two weeks of flying, finished the circuit at Detroit with 58,575 points. Until the final leg, Pilot Russell was always threatened by Waco's John Livingston and Arthur Davis whose company won the 1928 air tour. Pilot Livingston's score was 55,628 points. Honors in the class for single or dual engined cabin planes went...