Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hitherto been the best jumper in the show, to be withdrawn for Miss America, who is sometimes better than Buckaroo and sometimes not nearly so good. On this occasion, she was probably not as good as the old horse would have been; she made three faults on one circuit of the ring and the German team won the event with nine faults; Poland and the U. S. tied for second with 9½. In the jump-off for undisputed second place...
Just in time. Author Davis prevents his play from becoming a study of puppy love frustrated. Once more the problem of old Keith's circuit among suburban sirens is brought forward, to stay for a curtain which is as nearly satisfactory as possible. Of a sharp, clever cast, one of the pleasanter bits was done by Owen Davis Jr. as the younger Keith...
After that it was easy to design a container, connected with an electric circuit and gauge, in which grain or lumber might rest. Where it took hours by the oven process to grade material, the Burton-Pitt machine takes ten minutes...
...university," The fallacy of this thought is in the same category as that of the thorough sinners who make the best saints. Youth, itself is balance enough. And if it be feared that the University would, free from an artificial mixing within itself, turn into a closed circuit of thought, let it be remembered that, short as was the distance from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock, the distance from Widener to the Harvard Square rotunda is no longer. Harvard shows no sign of turning aloof from life...
Labor unions had agitated the question. In the Federal Court at Buffalo, Mary Cook and Antonio Danelon lost their cases. In the Circuit Court of Appeals they won, with many a fine reference to the Jay Treaty of 1794 and the historic freedom of U. S.-Canadian comings & goings. The Supreme Court nodded its approval...