Many Strat-O-Matic users have devoted uncounted solitary hours toward playing out an entire season for a team or league, then comparing players ' and teams ' statistics from the game play ( laboriously kept with pencil, paper, and slide rule in the era before hand-held calculators and computers ) with their real-life equivalents ; the closer the match, the more realistic Strat-O-Matic was deemed compared with its competitors.

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

* Allied with Venus in honourable positions Saturn makes his subjects haters of women, lovers of antiquity, solitary, unpleasant to meet, unambitious, hating the beautiful, ... — Ptolemy, ' Of the Quality of the Soul ', 2nd century.

" Hobbes posits a primitive, unconnected state of nature in which men, having a " natural proclivity ... to hurt each other " also have " a Right to every thing, even to one anothers body "; and " nothing can be Unjust " in this " warre of every man against every man " in which human life is " solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.

It never meant juvenile delinquents, it meant characters of a special spirituality who didn't gang up but were solitary Bartlebies staring out the dead wall window of our civilization ...

The philosopher Lucian attacked the Cynics in his book " The Philosophies for Sale " in which he mocked the Cynics by stating " First ... stripping you of your luxury ... I will put a cloak on you ... Next I will compel you to undergo pains and hardships, sleeping on the ground, drinking nothing but water ... Leading this life you will say that your are happier than the Great King ... Frequent the most crowded market place ... and in desire to be solitary and uncommunicative ..."

The four years in solitary confinement in Vietnam, seven-and-a-half years in prisons, drop the first bomb that started the ... American bombing raid in the North Vietnam.

The suit claims that the prisoners " have been incarcerated California ’ s Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit (" SHU ") for an unconscionably long period of time without meaningful review of their placement ", that " California's uniquely harsh regime of prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay is inhumane and debilitating ", and that " he solitary confinement regime at Pelican Bay ... violates the United States Constitution's requirement of due process and prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment ".

Political prisoners were " incessantly bombarded with propaganda from all sides ... radio and closed-circuit television ... loudspeakers blaring into all cells even into solitary cells and ` the coffins ` some prisoners were kept ... ideological sessions.

After his death, writer and friend Nathaniel Parker Willis referred to Downing as " our country's one solitary promise of a supply for ... scarcity of beauty coin in our every-day pockets.

: Experienced in human affairs, the Church ... " seeks but a solitary goal: to carry forward the work of Christ Himself under the lead of the befriending Spirit.

After only partly recovering from the wound, Brutus was sent Robben Island ... for 16 months, five in solitary.

Under Marry he listed benefits, " Children – if it please God – Constant companion & friend in old age will feel interested in one ,– object to be beloved and played with, better than a dog anyhow ..... Imagine living all one's day solitary in smoky dirty London House .– only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps ...", while Not Marry headed " Freedom to go where one liked ... Not forced to visit relatives .. to have the expense and anxiety of children .. fatness & idleness ... if many children forced to earn one's bread ..".

There was no one else there, apart from a solitary lodger, and the digs were really quite filthy ...

The flowers are solitary or, more frequently, arranged in umbellate inflorescences at the end of a stem ( scape ).

* " It may, perhaps, be embarrassing for a solitary man to walk across a wide quadrangle under a fire of glances from a collection of collegiate females ; but it is child's play compared, for example, with the long trek from the pavilion at Lord's to the far end of the pitch, with five wickets down and ninety needed to save the follow-on.

The jaguar is largely a solitary, opportunistic, stalk-and-ambush predator at the top of the food chain ( an apex predator ).

Only a single calf is born at a time and aside from mothers with their young or males following a receptive female, manatees are generally solitary creatures.

He lived the life of a solitary writer until 1763 when, at 52 years of age, he went off to Paris to work at the British embassy.

A solitary policeman sat in a small cabin at the top of the tower and switched the lights around manually, until they were eventually automated in 1926.

Her images are sharp — the sparrows that draw Aphrodite's chariot, the full moon in a starry sky, the solitary red apple at the tree-top — and she sometimes lingers over them to elaborate them for their own sake.

Beginning in 1969, she spent eighteen months in solitary confinement at Pretoria Central Prison.

France won the tournament, going through with one solitary loss – a 26 – 29 defeat to Spain in the preliminary round ( where France trailed by eight goals at half-time ).

A solitary and introverted child, Jung was convinced from childhood that, like his mother, he had two personalities — a modern Swiss citizen and a personality more at home in the eighteenth century.

In any case, Nicholas resigned from office at the General Chapter in Paris in 1271 to pursue the solitary life he favoured.

Aristotle follows a more ontological route: the misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god, a view reflected in the Renaissance of misanthropy as a " beast-like state.

In mathematics and physics, a soliton is a self-reinforcing solitary wave ( a wave packet or pulse ) that maintains its shape while it travels at constant speed.

A solitary Chilean flamingo named Pink Floyd wintered at the Great Salt Lake.

Victor Serge, for instance, first " spent six weeks in a cell " after a visit at midnight, then 85 days in an inner GPU cell, most of it in solitary confinement.

Sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having communicated French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris, Dreyfus was sent to the penal colony at Devil's Island in French Guiana and placed in solitary confinement, where he was to spend almost 5 years.

Play with other kittens peaks in the third or fourth month after birth, with more solitary hunting and stalking play peaking later, at about five months.

Peel's acolyte Monckton Milne MP said of Villiers at the time of this concession during 1842 that he was " the solitary Robinson Crusoe sitting on the rock of Corn Law repeal ".

Apparently mistreated by British soldiers at the time of the Revolutionary War, she retreated to a solitary life in the Lewisboro area.

" For like reason we would make especial mention of the village of Wishram, at the head of the Long Narrows, as being a solitary instance of an aboriginal trading mart, or emporium.

In the final scene, the MP, stripped of his political office and living abroad as a recluse, sits in his solitary room staring at oversized photographs of Anna and Martyn on the wall.

The film The Boys in the Band, for example, featured negative portrayals of gay men, but at least recognized that they did in fact fraternize with each other ( as opposed to being isolated, solitary predators who " victimized " straight men ).

As of 2012 the score stands at 8-1 to GKT, with KCL gaining a solitary victory in 2011.

On November 21, 1963, the day before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Robert Franklin Stroud died at the Springfield Medical Center at the age of 73, having been incarcerated for the last 54 years of his life, of which 42 were in solitary confinement.

Its location as an island in the Caribbean sea offers lots of beaches to explore which range from crowded to solitary and most of them virgin.

India's solitary victory in the previous two World Cups was against East Africa in 1975.

It is the oldest and largest solitary volcano in East Africa, covering an area of around 3500 km².

Also since 2007, the Renault Samsung SM3 is sold as a Nissan Sunny in the Middle East, with a solitary trim ( known as Nissan Sunny PE ) that comes with a 1. 5 liter engine.

" Moving from Brighton to a village in the South Downs in East Sussex with his family, he particularly enjoyed taking solitary walks across the Downs, describing the landscape as " a kind of neolithic M25 ".

A 5 point 2nd semi final defeat of minor premier East Fremantle Football Club then earned Claremont premiership favouritism, a state of affairs which intensified still further when it was learned that their grand final opponents would not be Old Easts, but the Royals ( East Perth Football Club ), which had finished the minor round in 4th place, but had surprisingly overturned East Fremantle in the preliminary final by a solitary point.

After a short spell at Corby Town, which witnessed Alexander score one goal in two games, he joined Spalding United where he scored 18 goals in the Northern Counties East Football League during his solitary season at the club in 1982 – 83.

Numerous articles by Chumbley followed, published in British and American occult journals, but no further books appeared until ONE: The Grimoire of the Golden Toad in 2000, described by Xoanon as: "... the first full grimoire-text to treat specifically and from personal account of the Traditional East Anglian ritual called ' The Waters of the Moon ': the solitary initiation of the so-called ' Toad-witch '.

To reach the switching yard, visitors had to walk the spiraling passageway through the miniature landscape that expanded the basement to enormous size — a landscape filled with railroad stations ; houses ; bridges ; factories ; a cliff-side gravel road that ran under a concrete arch supporting a steel railroad bridge in front of a hydroelectric dam with a generating plant beside it topped with twin round chimneys and, above and behind it on a plateau, a solitary white two-story wood frame house ; railroad crossings ; shacks ; coal companies ; a three-story brick ' Central Light And Power Company ' with a brick smoke stack that dwarfed it, cars loaded with coal from the ' Ynysybwl Coal Company ' waiting out front, and high-tension power lines running up the mountainside behind ; small town streets lined with banks and stores ; and even a careful and detailed reconstruction of the diner in Edward Hopper's famous painting Nighthawks, complete with customers, nested up against a two-story beige brick building that had beside it an equally tall red brick building, upon the wall of which was mounted a billboard for an ' East End Hardware ' store with their slogan ' Nuts To You!