Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Books by Lord Cottenham: Motoring Without Fears, Sicilian Circuit, All Out, Motoring Today and Tomorrow and Steering Wheel Papers. †Its makers were originally the Morris Garages of Abingdon-on-Thames, are now incorporated...
...your comments on the Vanderbilt Cup motor race (TIME, Oct. 19) you implied that the reason the U. S. cars were so soundly beaten was that they were not adapted to the Roosevelt Raceway type of circuit. This opinion, widely held, is only partly right. It is true that the Europeans, with their multiple speed, quick-shifting gearboxes and tremendous brakes had a great advantage, but it is equally certain that they could trounce any of our cars on any kind of a course...
...sturdy back of Jim, Army mule rented for the occasion, provided a common meeting ground for Crimson and West Point delegates. Twice Jim made a circuit of the field with a Harvard cheer leader on his passenger list, apparently unconcerned that the enemy had boarded him. Perhaps the Navy goat will have more college spirit...
...White House, the National Archives Building, the restored colonial edifices of Williamsburg, Va., banks, museums, warehouses, art galleries, libraries, laundries. In this device, concealed in the walls, the heat of a burning wastebasket is enough to expand the air in the tube, move a small diaphragm, close an electrical circuit, flash an alarm to the central fire station...
...endless belt conveyor moves alongside a longer conveyor which carries the fowl, fastened by the feet. In the Cornea store an attendant fastens the bird's head into a clamp from the short, inside belt. About a foot farther on, a lever is pressed down, completing an electrical circuit. Some 1,000 to 1,500 volts, depending on the size of the fowl, stepped up by transformers from ordinary house current, pass through the victim, shooting out its tail like an angry cock's, stunning it instantly. The fowl passes on to a revolving circular knife which slits...