Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made what he now considers the grave error of bickering with the Yankees over salary matters. After a long holdout siege, he missed the first twelve days of the 1938 season. He was booed all over the circuit, and the booing in Yankee Stadium was loudest & longest...
...suit came as something of a surprise to Alcoa. In 1945, a U.S. circuit court of appeals had found that Alcoa was a prewar monopoly but withheld judgment on its postwar status until all Government-owned aluminum plants were disposed of. Alcoa shrewdly did what it could to help the U.S. get rid of them. It turned over to the Government its patents on the extraction of alumina (the raw material for aluminum) from low-grade bauxite, thus making it possible for the Government to sell and lease aluminum plants to Reynolds Metals Co. and Henry Kaiser...
MISSISSIPPI: Permanent registration IN PERSON is required and all voters must pay an annual $2.00 poll tax. Registered voters may obtain ballots by writing to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county of residence 10 days before the election. Ballot must be notarized. The proper affidavit must also be filled in with the name of the voter who will set as the agent to deliver the ballot to precinct officials on election day. Veterans are not required to re-register unless local county officials have ordered...
...memory-began to be explained, said Dr. Hoagland, when it was found that many of the brain's neurons are arranged in closed chains. An impulse can move around the chain, "firing" one cell after another. When it gets back to its starting place, it can make the circuit again & again. These circulating impulses, thinks Dr. Hoagland, are the basis of memory...
Frank Parker refused to consider the idea, even privately. Parker was 32, Billy Talbert 30 and Gardnar Mulloy 33-and they had all been playing the tennis circuit for years & years-but they were not oldtimers yet. Said Frank: "I don't let myself think that...