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* Cobblers is short for " cobbler's awls " which is a rhyming slang for ' balls ' ( testicles )
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Cobblers and is
Nicknamed The Souters ( Cobblers ) the club was founded in 1880 and is the oldest club in the Borders.
The English disparaging term “ cobblers ,” usually meaning “ nonsense ,” is Cockney rhyming slang for “ balls ” from the phrase “ cobblers ’ awls .” For shoemakers, " Cobblers " are people who repair shoes, not those who make shoes.
Cobblers and for
* " The Cobblers ", a nickname for Northampton Town F. C., English association football club
In addition to listings of recipes for Punches, Sours, Slings, Cobblers, Shrubs, Toddies, Flips, and a variety of other types of mixed drinks were 10 recipes for drinks referred to as " Cocktails ".
In 1865 Kivi won the State Prize for his still often performed comedy Nummisuutarit ( translated as Heath Cobblers by Douglas Robinson ).
He was part of the Northampton side that won promotion from League Two, appearing 11 times for the Cobblers and scoring one goal against Notts County.
Bowen would manage the Cobblers for eight years, and became known as a canny manager who signed quality players despite a tight budget.
Northampton Town also known as " The Cobblers " played their home games for 97 years at the County Ground between 1897 and 1994.
The Cobblers played their last game there on 12 October 1994 ( a 1-0 league defeat to Mansfield Town ), and then moved to Sixfields, a four sided stadium more suitable for football.
He scored 1 goal-against Watford's rivals Luton-in 6 games for the Cobblers.
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The short answer to those questions is `` yes ''.
It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.
And yet amid all the gay hedonism in Pilgrimage And Wander-Years is a cycle of short poems, `` Thoughts In Loneliness '', filled with brooding, melancholy, and sombre longing ''.
The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.
In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.
In short, he is constantly concerned with the ethical effects.
In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.
Krim says, in short, that he is a suffering Jew.
It is a short course in Communese.
A requirement of reasonably honest administration may be politically uncomfortable in the short run, but it is politically essential in the long run.
Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.
This agreement is considered very good for such short time intervals.
The need here is most clearly felt and our capacity to recruit and train qualified volunteers in a short period of time is greatest.
Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.
If the lever is pulled to clear a signal or move a switch, the tappet moves a short distance lengthwise at the same time.
Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.
As shown in Fig. 4, an external antenna is placed over or around the patient and excited 3000 times a second with short 400-kc. bursts.
The central storage is near a main artery quite easy to reach with large transports on a short crescent swing, with fewer trucks in the residential streets.
It is convenient to classify a child's onset ages and completion ages as `` advanced '', `` moderate '' ( modal ), or `` delayed '' according to whether the child's age equivalent `` dots '' appeared to the left of, upon, or to the right of the appropriate short transverse line.
The growth center depicted here, in the distal phalanx of the second finger, is listed as the fifth of those in the seven short bones.
In some programs, treatment is concentrated over a short period of time, while in others, after the initial contact is established, flexible spacing of interviews has been experimentally used with apparent success.
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It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.
`` What is the scaffolding for, Brassnose ''??
He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.
This is a paradise for hunters.
`` And if the dive goes OK he has the exclusive import rights to your line for this country, is that right ''??
There is nothing for you '', Matsuo said.
It is almost time for and calinda to begin ''.
I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.
-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.
National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.
There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.
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