Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute's first meeting with radio. Last month, it started broadcasting over WBZ's FM circuit its famed, formidable Free Public Lectures. But these, and not only because of FM's present limited audience, could never expect to draw many listeners. Reason: lecture subjects include such topics as Lamaism, the Buddhism of Tibet and Mongolia and Applications of Seismological Techniques to Engineering Problems...
Died. Martin T. Manton, 66, onetime senior judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; of a heart ailment; in Fayetteville, N.Y. In a trial unprecedented in the annals of the federal judiciary, he was convicted of "selling justice" to build his private fortune, served 19 months in Lewisburg, Pa.'s Northeastern Federal Penitentiary...
Kentucky's John S. Cooper, endorsed by the liberal Louisville Courier-Journal, was a G.O.P. winner in a normally Democratic state. The tall, 200-lb. circuit court judge, a veteran of World War II, campaigned as a supporter...
...your apt new use of many an old one. I bow humbly to your practiced use of almost an industrial idiom, but, never did I expect you to jump the track when confronted with a commuter electric line like the C.A. & E. I'll bet your description popped circuit breakers all the way from the front platforms of the shiny new C.A. & E. cars clear back to the power house. . . . Don't you agree "chuffed" just isn't the word...
With the football season came the weekends of the Big Game and the dance in the college gym or the local ballroom afterwards. The collegiate circuit, which had brought many a big-money dance band (Glen Gray, the late Glenn Miller) to the top, was in full swing. This season a new face, and a surprisingly young one, had cornered the market: 21-year-old Elliot Lawrence...