Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company, covering the "double print" method of recording both sound and picture on a single film and the "sprocket" or "flywheel" method of reproduction, which were universally displacing older systems. He sued three exhibitors, aiming behind them at the makers of their equipment (R.C.A. Photophone and Western Electric). A Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his claim. The defendants appealed to the Supreme Court. Last autumn the Supreme Court refused to review the lower court's findings...
Each contestant must seize his charts from the ward supervisor. Then he is required to make a complete circuit of the room, only breaking his stride to smile an inclusive grin at the ceiling. No answers are required to any stupid questions and most of them fall in this category. A good man can make it in seven seconds...
...Hurricane" because he comes from Herkimer, N. Y. and because his style of boxing is a cross between that of the late Harry Greb and an indignant Chinese laundry man. Son of a day laborer named Tony D'Ambrosio, he is a product of the curious "bootleg" boxing circuit that flourished a few years ago in upstate New York, where promoters were too poor or too dishonest to pay taxes...
...rather forlorn week is in prospect for the Feslermen, as on Wednesday they meet Columbia's League-leading five, the most sensational and fastest shifting team seen in the circuit for some time, and on Friday they encounter Brown which, until its defeat at the hands of the Elis on Saturday, had amassed a total of ten consecutive wins...
...break the record over the measured kilometer, with a 375 h.p. motor. And on Christmas day he was successful, and the bouillabaisse flowed yellow at the feasts given in his honor. A few days later he tried again, this time for the record for 500 kilometers in closed circuit, but trouble, first with landing gear, later with oil circulation, forced him to give up the attempt, and now he and his plane have returned to Paris. But he will return again soon for another try and he may succeed...