Word: circuiter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor of Michigan appointed solid, able Mr. Ferguson a circuit judge. In his judicial routine Homer Ferguson won the respect of lawyers and colleagues alike. There he was doing his quiet job, when the noses of the circuit court sniffed a decidedly gamy smell curling up from Detroit and suburban Hamtramck. The police blandly assured them that everything was O.K., but the circuit court decided to poke around, appointed Judge Ferguson (under a peculiar Michigan law) to sit as a one-man grand jury and find out what was making the stink...
Columbia Broadcasting System's four-man post has heard some 30,000,000 words, now puts a selection of them on a teletype circuit to publishers every day. Princeton University's Listening Centre transcribes the programs it picks up, analyzes them for propaganda content and technique...
...Crimson Varsity golf team will fire its first shots in league play this weekend, meeting Brown and Dartmouth today and tomorrow in Manchester, N. H. The other three teams in the Northern half of the Eastern Intercollegiate golf circuit are Yale, Holy Cross, and Williams...
...remarked that poetry had made a circuit, from sensitivity to sensibility, to tenderness, and finally to humaneness. Here poets differ: some style themselves humanitarians, other anti-humanitarians. He described himself as a "case sympathizer...
...Voted down (236-to-104) a bill by Judiciary Committee Chairman Hatton Sumners to abolish impeachment and trial of accused U. S. judges by House & Senate, substitute trial by Circuit Court judges...