Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody knows. Perhaps a drunkard threw a cigaret in a wastepaper basket. Perhaps there was a short circuit. Perhaps radicals set the blaze. Captain Warms and, by no coincidence, the whole Ward Line leans to the last theory. If arson can be proved, the line will be freed of criminal negligence liability. The owners of the Vestris were sued for $5,000,000 in personal liability claims...
...southern circuit judge who takes mildly to Bourbon whiskey. Will Rogers, too old to be the main love interest, assumes again, as he did in Handy Andy, the role of matchmaker for younger members of the cast. Presented with dialog patterned after Irvin S. Cobb's quiet Judge Priest stories and permitted but a minimum of head-ducking. Funnyman Rogers is a less hackneyed philosopher than he was in earlier films. Time is the slow Kentucky '90s. Plot is concerned with a judge who is fond of his nephew who is fond of the pretty but poor white...
...idle toy, the Westinghouse device serves industry as a delicate circuit breaker for aluminum welding, as a mercury vapor lamp for producing stroboscopic light by which to inspect revolving parts. A very fast series of flashes illuminates the part at the same point of every revolution, and thus, because of persistence of vision in the human eye, the part appears to be standing still. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used mercury vapor stroboscopes in connection with a super-fast camera to record the impact of a golf club with the ball, the splash of a drop of milk...
Starting democratically by motor-coach and ending by being driven in his own car, last autumn Author Priestley fetched a wide circuit through industrial England, busily noting what he saw and felt. At Southampton the great liners made him proud but a talk with a steward made him wonder. The Wills Gold Flake (cigaret) factory at Bristol pleased him. But the suburbs of Birmingham he found "beastly," and the benevolent despotism of Cadbury's cocoa factory at Bournville depressed him. Cutting through the Cotswold Hills he came on Chipping Campden, medieval wool trade centre, now a carefully preserved Arcadia...
...Circuit Judge Fisher watched, listened, pondered. Then he solemnly pronounced electricity a tangible, taxable commodity...