Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This winter, for the 13th year, 29-year-old Jimmy Demaret took time out from his teaching job to join the country's top-notch professionals in the circuit of southern tournaments-still hoping, after years of picking up nothing but experience, to pick up a little cash and prestige. Two years ago he licked famed Sam Snead in the San Francisco Match Play tournament. Last year he won the Los Angeles Open. In golf, almost anything can happen...
...were the skeletons of California's Senator David C. Broderick, killed in the West's most noted duel, in 1859, by California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry; Nevada's Senator William Sharon, Comstock Lode proprietor who entertained President Grant on gold plate in 1879; California Circuit Court Judge M. Hall McAllister, who sired Socialite Ward McAllister; William M. Bourn, whose money bought the Killarney Lakes for the Irish Free State...
Only one other league meet is listed for settlement this week-Dartmouth at Columbia, also on Saturday--but members of the circuit will compete in several non-league meets as well. Among the best of these will be the Yale-Wayne duel and the Army-Navy engagement, both on Saturday...
...Elected Dean of Yale's Law School was Ashbel ("Pail"-from ashpail) Green Gulliver. Of Dean Gulliver's three immediate predecessors, two (Thomas Walter Swan and Charles Edward Clark) are now judges of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the third (Robert Maynard Hutchins) is president of University of Chicago. Under them, Yale's Law School rose to top rank, today vies with Harvard's for the distinction of being the most illustrious law school...
...East commander, in reviewing an Anglo-Egyptian contingent, three-quarters British and largely mechanized, drawn up on the desert just outside Heliopolis. The line extended for a mile and a half, with vehicles standing three to six deep. The reviewing party was an hour and a half making its circuit. Next day General Weygand inspected the Suez Canal defenses...