Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last fortnight's anniversary news was the addition of Washington, Cincinnati, Detroit, St. Louis, as Guild cities. Among plays to be offered are: Caprice, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Wings Over Europe, R. U. R., Strange Interlude, Marco Millions, Volpone. A rotational system among the actors will assure each circuit city of the best Guild talent.* No matter what players tread the Guild's stage, stardom is avoided. Names are not posted in lights outside the theatre or in large type in the programs. There are no solo bows, no bows at all until the end of the play, when...
...next day the Crimson met the strong Quantico Marine outfit and lost by a 6 to 3 score in a seven inning contest. The Southerners bunched their hits well off W. H. MacHale '31 and won a clean-cut victory. Ticknor knocked his second circuit clout of the trip in the seventh inning, with Kidd the Marines star twirler on the mound...
...pitchers duel between Whitmore am Ozerny of the Lions. The former allowed four hits and struck out 13 while the latter let the Harvard nine down with three safeties and fanned ten. Harvard's run was accounted for by T. W. Gilligan '31, when he hit for the circuit in the fifth inning...
...building five $100,000, 32-passenger, four-motor transports for the Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs almost the same amount...
...involves the use of three types of materials: conducting materials such as copper and aluminum; magnetic materials such as iron and steel from which magnets are made; and insulating materials such as rubber paper, cotton, oils, porcelain, and other similar materials which have the property of insulating the electric circuit. It is only by employing insulating materials that electric currents can be made to flow in the electric conductors. Otherwise, they would leak away, and it would therefore be difficult to transmit power any considerable distance...