Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Calvert Magruder of the United States Circuit Court, announcing the decisions, stated that the judges "might well have awarded ten prizes instead of two," so close was the competition...
...honorary judge of the contest. The other judges will be: Harvey H. Bundy, former special assistant to the Secretary of War; Charles P. Curtis, Jr. '13, co-editor of "The Practical Cogitator"; Thomas H. Eliot '28, former Congressman from Massachusetts; and Judge Calvert Magruder of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals...
Taking runner-up Bob Reid of Williams and Jim Hasset of the Blue in 4:59.1, Gorman also had the distinction of being the only Ivy Leaguer to finish in the leading slot of the Eastern Circuit except, of course, for the omnipotent Yale...
Pickering designed a special loudspeaker which would give a pure tone when fed an electric current pulsing at A-frequency (440 cycles a second). He sealed in a vacuum a carefully compensated tuning fork that is kept vibrating electrically. An amplifying circuit picks up the vibrations, feeds them to the loudspeaker. The result: a loud, true A. It is not a very musical sound, for it lacks softening overtones, but it is accurate to one one-hundred-thousandth of a cycle...
Making the competition stiffer will be entrants from such strong outfits as Williams and Rutgers as well as the eight regular teams of the Eastern circuit. According to Coach Ulen these two should finish second and third in the informal team totals behind the Yale powerhouse...