Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago courtroom last week Circuit Judge Harry M. Fisher stared at a voltmeter which had been placed before him on the bench. The voltmeter was connected to a switch, and the switch was connected with the courtroom lights. When the switch was closed Judge Fisher saw the voltmeter needle leap from 0 to 110 on the dial. What he had to decide was whether the thing that made the needle leap was tangible or intangible. There to help him, but arguing on opposite sides of the dispute, were two distinguished Nobel Prizemen...
...Keep it up. Maybe some of us chaps who have been stung will get a break. Anyhow, we are fed up on a college-bred wife whose remaining asset of her college days consists of a taste for punk cigarets plus a tarnished complexion and an insistence to short-circuit any and all opinions contrary to her own by espousing a look of pseudo-intelligence that rates alongside some of the funny cartoons...
...Auto, Paris sportpaper, founded the race in 1903 as a circuit of the Auvergne highlands, enlarged it by stages to its present scale. L'Auto foots the bills for meals & lodging, furnishes to each contestant his bicycle, as many tires as he can wear out, $2.64 per day for pin-money. This year publicity-seeking merchants have scraped up 800,000 francs ($52,800) for prizes. The winner of each of the 23 daily laps gets 1,.000 francs...
...noon last week President Roosevelt sat in the back of his open touring car, a roll and a hot dog in one hand, a glass of beer in the other. Once more he was in his native Dutchess County and once more he was completing a whirlwind circuit of fun and play...
...gives a quiet, unmannered and understanding performance. Margaret Sullavan, whose brilliant acting in Only Yesterday made her Hollywood's brightest prospect since Katherine Hepburn, makes Little Man, What Now her picture. Good shot: Lammchen conversing with Hans while riding on a merry-go-round, one sentence with each circuit...