Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League competition last week. McGill turned back one of the chief rivals for the crown it is defending, Queens University, 7 to 3, while Princeton scored its first triumph in Quadrangular League play and its second in greater-league competition by turning in the highest score made in the circuit this season...
...their flash, they place a spark gap close to the gun's muzzle so that the bullet passes just below the electrodes. The hot gases and burning powder which follow the bullet enable the spark to jump the gap, completing the circuit and discharging the voltage through the vacuum tube. Only one picture is taken at each shot. But by moving the spark gap nearer to or farther from the gun's muzzle, the bullet can be snapped at various points of its trajectory...
...little Janet Chapman, as a precocious frontier orphan weighing in at 72, makes a grand partner for Dick Foran, at a mere 225, there is "Listen, Darling," a Judy Garland vehicle. This latter picture features, besides Miss Garland's warbling--now geting quite torchy for the Temple-Withers-Granville circuit--a modern Dan'l Boone and his "striped beaver," more commonly known as a skunk. The beaver is much funnier than Judy or the other people who hang around waiting for a line...
...Voice took to the Chautauqua circuit as a lecturer on human behavior, has been a steady broadcaster since 1926. His radio salary of $2,000 a week is augmented by lectures, sales of his books and pamphlets. That he is stumped by few human problems is evident from the titles of his 300 pamphlets. Some of them: Love and How to Express It, Acidosis (and how to overcome it), Promiscuous Kissing, The Care of the Skin, Disciplining Your Child, Insomnia, War of the Sexes, Feminine Shapeliness, Have You Been Jilted? Although the pamphlets cost 3? each, a listener whose troubles...
Last week, in Fayette Circuit Court, witnesses told why. They knew Build, they testified, as J. D. Amason, operator of a bankrupt poultry farm at Flintville, Tenn. But beyond that they unfolded a stranger story: Build-Amason had served four prison terms, including one at Atlanta (where he learned his art), and had once shot his way out of a hanging case in Texas...