Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, together, with Judge Harrie B. Chase of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Calvert Magruder of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit presided over the mock case of Columbia Broadcasting System vs. Federal Communications Commission...
...after we toured the Army posts in Alaska." Like Al Jolson before him, he declared the boys up there had taken the zest out of him for entertaining civilians. Last week they were backed up by Bob Hope, the hardest-traveling Army-camp trooper of them all. The Aleutian circuit, he declared, comprised the greatest audience in the world. Back home, both Bergen and Hope were geysers of zestful anecdote in proof of their claim...
...space, spinning on its shorter axis. The sun is one of these stars, located some four-fifths of the way out from center of the universe toward the edge. At that point its spinning motion is 155 miles per second, yet it takes 200 million years to round the circuit. Ten times the earth has been around, clinging to the sun, from which, scientists believe, the earth spun off two billion years...
...high-frequency signal currents merely ride on the high-power current like waves on a river. The vibrations are drawn off at any point by a condenser or antennae system. This does not affect the power circuit which thus acts much like a special track for radio waves. As in radio, many frequency channels are available so that several conversations or signals could be carried by the same wire at the same time. By eliminating the need for separate telephone lines, many tons of aluminum, copper and steel could be saved. Chief obstacle: lack of materials for telephone instruments...
...stocky, pink-eared Norman Tokar, 19, has long played a bit part in the script, long understudied Ezra, sounds enough like him to be his twin. He has played small stage roles in Delicate Story, Lamented Life of Riley, Days of Our Youth, is currently featured in the subway circuit Sailor Beware. He also writes and sells gangster scripts bristling with argot. Knowing the script depends on Henry, Norman does his best to be a businesslike copy of Ezra. House Jameson, who plays Father Aldrich, coaches the new Henry out from behind every eight ball. It is worth...