Word: circuiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...empty. It was a quiet crowd. A black gelding hitched to a sulky was slowly led forth and up to the barrier. There he was draped with black crepe and, while the crowd stood silent and a band began a dead march, the gelding walked slowly around the full circuit of the track...
...farewell tour of the U. S. This in spite of the fact that her last appearances here were also farewell appearances. This time, however, it is "positively farewell," because Anna, says her manager, S. Hurok, is weary of the discomforts of travel. Consequently, a rather unexacting final circuit has been arranged. It will consist of four weeks at Covent Garden, London; three and one-half weeks at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan; then a "season" in San Francisco; finally a first, last and only tour of Australia. Thereafter the most skilful toes in the world will be on view only...
...Keith circuit clown, nor a newspaper colyumist, nor a child "playing animals" gave voice to this utterance. It was the Rev. Z. Colin O'Farrell announcing his text for a sermon against Evolution in the First Baptist Church of Butte, Mont...
...Republican) from Rhode Island since 1913, Chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee, died at Bristol, R. I., of heart trouble and nephritis. A Yale graduate, class of 1868, he was appointed U. S. District Judge for Bristol by President Garfield in 1881. In 1884 he became a U. S. Circuit Court judge, in 1891 (the year of its founding) a judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
...this point that the actual bearing of the experiment on the Einstein theory of relativity enters, for, according to that theory, one beam should travel around the circuit in slightly less time than the other. Generally speaking, proof that the ether rotates with the earth will be considered as contradicting the Einstein theory...