Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quadrangular League winner, Dartmouth, finished in a tie for second place in the standings with Toronto and Queens. The Indians were undefeated in Quad competition and ranked higher in the International division standing than any American team in the three year history of the circuit. Harvard finished fifth in International League competition with five wins, four losses, and one tie, and second in the Quad ratings...
...focuses it on a microphone. If the sound is at the most efficient level, the microphone current keeps a galvanometer balanced between two contacts. If it rises or falls as little as one-quarter of a decibel, the galvanometer makes contact on one side or the other, closing a circuit which starts or stops the flow of ore as the situation requires. More than 75 of these electric ears are already...
...want Joe because he was originally Austrian (the village of his birth was obliterated by the World War), a warrant for his deportation which had been issued in August 1934 became effective as of January 1937. Joe hired a lawyer to appeal his case in U. S. Circuit Court at St. Louis. That lawyer drank up his expense money and filed no appeal, so Joe was taken to New Orleans to be deported. But Joe's Hot Springs lawyer, one C. Alpheus Stanfield, whose lucrative practice in Arkansas's easy-divorce courts enables him to take "radical" cases...
...With a Westerner long overdue for appointment to the Court, Washington wise money was on three dark horses: Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington; Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Texas); Dean Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. of University of Iowa College of Law, whose appointment would tickle three States, since he was born in Kentucky and summers in Colorado...
Lawyer Stanfield appealed to Federal District Judge Wayne G. Borah (the Idaho Senator's nephew), who ruled against Joe; then to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Here Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. found that there was nothing in the Labor Department's record against Joe to warrant deporting him. Judge Hutcheson spoke of "the tyranny of labels over certain types of minds" and twitted the prosecution (inferentially, Madam Secretary Perkins herself) for "a kind of Pecksniffian righteousness, savoring strongly of hypocrisy and party bigotry...