Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rained. But last Tuesday I found out the practical reason why Soil Engineering and Electronics are so closely united. I wanted to connect a cathode to ground, and I didn't know where to hook the wire, when along came a Soil Engineer with a new kind of circuit element which he said was "ground...
...little box about an inch square with two wires in ft. I opened it up; and sure enough, it was ground--rich and dark, just like back home on the farm. I put it in the circuit. It doesn't work very well, but I am growing a Victory Garden...
Wrigley is starting out with only four teams, playing a circuit of war-busy towns within some 100 miles of one another: the Rockford (Ill.) Teachers, South Bend (Ind.) Blue Sox, Racine (Wis.) Belles, Kenosha (Wis.) Shamrocks. They will play 108 games this summer, with a post season play-off for the championship...
...Lovett, an employe of his Interior Department. But the principles he championed applied to the cases of all three. He reminded the Congress that the Constitution laid down a regular procedure of impeachment, by which Congress may rid the government of misbehaving officials. For Congress to short-circuit the Constitution by withholding funds for an official's salary was, he declared, an encroachment on the rights of the Executive. In this case it was also nothing less than an unconstitutional condemnation without judicial trial...
...possible that the new age begun by Britain in the 19th Century can be continued and strengthened by the concurrence of the U.S, and others. For the British Navy and extraterritoriality in this economic order it will be necessary to substitute collective military security and, perhaps, an international circuit court of appeals. And for gold, to substitute an international reserve bank. For free trade, a tariff structure exposed to the self-interest of all citizens. And instead of overseas lending, Britain, U.S. & Associates, investment bankers to themselves, each other and the world...