Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radcliffe House Committee came up with a proposal to make travelling between Harvard and the Cliffe more enjoyable. Claiming that the university could arrange a bus circuit up and down Mass Ave and Garden Street if there was enough student interest, the committee circulated questionnaires to see how many cold undergraduates would pay to ride...
...biologist and a judge also received degrees. Dr. Hugh E. Huxley, a member of the Scientific Staff of the Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, at Cambridge University, received a Doctor of Science. Wade H. McCree Jr., who is Judge of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Detroit, received a Doctor of Laws...
McCree, a black, earned a law degree from Harvard in 1944 after graduating from Fisk University. He has been a trustee of Fisk and has received honorary degrees from Wayne State University and Tuskegee. He became a U.S. Circuit Judge three years...
...frozen northland, all of it lying above the 60th latitude. There are only 32,000 people in that expanse, and local justices of the peace handle most of the legal problems. But since those accused of most crimes are entitled to be tried by a judge, Morrow rides the circuit by chartered plane and Skimobile...
...style circuit rider, familiar to any fan of Hollywood westerns, largely disappeared in the U.S. around the turn of the century as urbanization advanced. Morrow is one of his few surviving descendants in North America. In Igloolik, he began by explaining the legal system in simple terms and by introducing the other members of the court, who flew along with him. There was a court clerk and a court recorder, a crown attorney who prosecuted the cases from a few notes made by the arresting Mountie, and a legal-aid counsel who prepared a defense after similarly sketchy study...