Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West. Today rodeos are a big-time U. S. sport. They annually attract twice as many spectators as auto racing or track. In Texas rodeos are chasing baseball off the sandlots. They have a governing organization (Rodeo Association of America), a cowboys' union (Turtle Association),* a major-league circuit and a national champion...
...compete in the major-league circuit -the 100-odd rodeos sponsored by the R. A. A.-a cowboy must be a better-than-average bronc rider, calf roper, steer wrestler or steer rider. More than that, he must be willing to take a chance. A cowboy on the range gets around $40 a month-with "grub." A rodeo cowboy gets no salary at all. He pays his own traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost...
...last week the deal was off. A shocked Circuit Court in Lapeer County, after listening to the testimony of the children, convicted all four parents of illegal cohabitation, released the mothers to take care of their children, held the fathers pending sentence...
...fill the vtcancy caused by the appointment of former Dean Charles E. Clark, 1911, to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Eli president Seymour has announced that Ashbel G. Gulliver had been appointed Acting Dean of Yale Law for the current year. Gulliver is a Professor of Law and Fellow of Timothy Dwight College...
...sparing the slightly unbalanced Gates national notoriety, Whitey imported sound trucks and reporters for one of Dartmouth's biggest publicity outbursts. We doubt if Gates found the "peace" he sought, but we'd willingly wager that with Whitey as his manager, he could clean up in a sideshow circuit...