Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hypothetical-because of the unknown quantity, Russia. But Germany and Italy would like to have a go at bothersome Turkey. Excuses for a campaign in the Balkans were a dime a dozen. Italy had one all ready: border strife between Greece and Albania. Troop concentrations threatened a major short circuit at that partly burned-out fuse last week. The way had also been paved by the partition of Rumania and the abdication of King Carol. By last week the Iron Guard's revolution in Rumania had been completed, and a full division of German troops was reported moving...
...cause of President-reject General Juan Andreu Almazán sputtered like a discouraged short circuit last week. Loyal Almazanistas insisted that their leader would arrive in the capital by month's end, that he was ready in Mexico for a mysterious "strategy junta." But the Almazan camp in San Antonio was dismally inactive. In Mexico City a band of 500 men & women waving the green flags of Almazanismo tried to rip down a poster proclaiming General Manuel Avila Camacho President-elect of Mexico, was quickly broken up by a squad of motor cycle police. Scattered rebellions in northern...
...appointment of Russell came following the decision of the New York Circuit Court upholding the petition of Mrs. McKay that Russell was morally unfit to teach in the City College of New York...
...present experiments that the network is making are confined entirely to Gore Hall in Winthrop House where the main transmitter has been set up. These tests should determine the actual arrangement of the wire hookups to the steel framework. The present plan is to make a complete circuit out of the building's frame and through use of shielded cable to eliminate the standing waves on the distribution lines and to minimize them on the building, thus cutting down on the air radiation which was the bugbear of last season's attempts...
...their casts such stars as Katharine Cornell and Helen Hayes, who could attract an audience in the Mojave Desert. When Hollywood stars return to the boards for a lark, they do so not in Hollywood but on Broadway and in the better-class barns of the straw-hat circuit...