Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Membership in the new circuit is similar to that of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, except that the Cornell nine takes the place of the Navy swimmers, who are not members of the latter organization...
...Baltimore, Md., a potful of U. S. gold coins with a face value of $11,425, found last year in a cellar by Henry Grob and Theodore Jones, both 17, and awarded them by a Circuit Court Judge, was auctioned off to rare coin collectors for a total of $22,500. Highest price: $105 for a $20 gold piece, one of 2,250 minted at New Orleans...
Public Service by a newspaper was best rendered by the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, whose Associate Editor Arthur B. Waugh investigated the nominations by President Roosevelt of Nevada's Federal Judge Frank H. Norcross to the Circuit Court of Appeals, and of Lawyer William Woodburn to succeed Norcross. By linking both men with the George Wingfield political machine, the Bee thwarted the nominations...
...broadcast it on to Amsterdam. Under the North Sea it went by cable to London, then Rugby. Sprayed overseas again, it was picked up at Netcong, N. J., flashed back to Manhattan. One quarter-second after President Gifford said, "Hello," Vice President Miller heard him, answered over a reverse circuit. Mindful that this first round-the-world conversation should be nobly phrased, President Gifford began: "This is another step in the conquest of time and space. . . ." Soon both men lapsed into shop talk...
Amtree is longer, its jumps a little higher, but the Maryland Hunt Cup, No. 1 steeplechase in the U.S., has special hazards of its own. Instead of hedges which a horse can brush without falling and which, when the big field has crashed through them on the first circuit of the course, are considerably easier the second time around, the Maryland jumps are timber fences with the top rail securely nailed down. In a blue-green pocket of the hills a few miles outside of Baltimore, eight horses went to the post last week...