Word: circuiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smothering mesh of legal machinery in the United States, the workmen's voice is stifled?as Labor sees it. Hence the rejoicing of Labor, when a decision is handed down like the one that came last week from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Some 40,000 firemen and "engine hostlers" (men who wash and oil locomotives) employed by 55 class one railroads of the west, were awarded a pay-raise, aggregating $3,600,000 per annum...
That the brilliant red blood in the arteries is exactly the same as the dark blue blood of the veins, the difference in color being due to difference in gas content. That there is no to and fro undulation, but a constant circuit of blood from the heart, through the distant parts of the body, back to the heart...
Died. Thomas Henry ("Old Tom") Tibbles, 87, famed Civil War fighter, circuit rider and onetime (1904) candidate for the vice presidency of the U. S.; at Omaha, Neb. Hanged before he was 16 by members of Raider Quantrill's band, he was cut down by friends, lived to fight with John Brown, to edit the Omaha World-Herald, to marry three wives, one of them Princess Bright Eyes, original of Longfellow's Minnehaha...
...first year men collected 13 hits, one of them a circuit clout, from the schoolboy hurler while W. H. MacHale '31 was holding the losers to four scattered hits...
Died. Judge Walter Henry Sanborn, 82, oldest member and presiding judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for its Eighth Circuit; suddenly; of grip; in St. Paul, Minn. In his 36 years on the Federal bench Judge Sanborn wrote over 1,200 opinions, many of first importance...