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He knew Alfred liked me ; ;
Shippey says that Tolkien knew well the translation of Boethius that was made by King Alfred and he quotes some “ Boethian ” remarks from Frodo, Treebeard and Elrond.
However, Alfred Brehm reported a dingo that completely learned the more " typical " form of barking and knew how to use it, while its brother did not.
* Zane Grey uses the name Izaak Walton in Betty Zane ( New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1903 ) in a fishing story: Alfred Clarke said " I never knew one ( girl ) who cared for fishing.
In fact, Alfred L. Kroeber, father of California anthropology, who knew of one of their constituent local groups, the Saclan ( his Saklan ), from nineteenth century manuscript sources, presumed that they spoke a Ohlone ( aka Costanoan ) language.
Instead he turned to a friend, Sir Alfred Ewing, the Director of Naval Education ( DNE ), who previously had been a professor of engineering with a knowledge of radio communications and who he knew had an interest in ciphers.
As recently as the 1960s, when Alfred P. Sloan published his famous memoir and management treatise, My Years with General Motors, even the longtime president and chair of the largest manufacturing enterprise that had ever existed knew very little about the history of the development, other than to say that "< nowiki > was, I believe, one of those mainly responsible for bringing the technique of interchangeable parts into automobile manufacturing.
Hobhouse had a letter of introduction to the governor, Alfred Milner, from her aunt, the wife of Arthur Hobhouse, himself the son of Henry Hobhouse, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Home Office under Sir Robert Peel, and who knew Milner.
According to an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, the group's name " the Black Keys " came from a schizophrenic artist named Alfred McMoore that the pair knew ; he would leave incoherent messages on their answering machines referring to their fathers as " black keys " such as " D flat " when he was upset with them.
According to Alfred Kazin, who knew him, Weldon Kees ’ s ambition as a poet knew no bounds.
However, Alfred Brehm reported a dingo that completely learned the more " typical " form of barking and knew how to use it, while its brother did not.
He was a close friend of Professor Alfred Newton, Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford and of Alfred Russel Wallace and he knew all of the leading ornithologists of the day.
The artist Jerome Myers speaks of him in his autobiography " Artist In Manhattan " ( Chapter XXVII: Among My Contemporaries ) ( 1940 ) " Alfred Maurer, whom I knew casually, had a pleasant personality.
Returning to Paris, she brought with her, as Legouve says, a thing she had unearthed, a little comedy never acted until she took it up, a production half-forgotten, and esteemed by those who knew it as a pleasing piece of work in the Marivaux style: Un Caprice by Alfred de Musset, which she had played with success in French in St. Petersburg.

Alfred and too
Alfred was getting too sick to stay in his own home.
Despite the observation by Alfred Wallace that Mars's atmosphere was too thin to support an Earth-like ecology, various depictions of a Martian civilization were popular throughout the 20th century.
In a pre-release version of the original MAD, as a reference to MAD's namesake, MAD magazine, when a program contained too many compile time errors the compiler would print a full-page picture of Alfred E. Neuman using ASCII art.
During the 1970s, Carmita became a part of the Disco Music movement in her country, and had the number one hit La Generacion De Hoy ( Today's Generation ), produced by Alfred D. Herger, which was followed by La Vida En Rosa ( Life In Pink ), a song which was later a hit in English too, Grace Jones performing the English version.
At 16, Baxter screen-tested for the role of Mrs. DeWinter in Rebecca, losing to Joan Fontaine because director Alfred Hitchcock deemed Baxter too young for the role, but she soon secured a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox.
It has been said of him that he lacked gracious manners and was too conscious of his intellectual superiority, but his kindly reception in the UK by the likes of Thomas Carlyle and Alfred, Lord Tennyson suggests that he was not without charm.
In the wake of his resignation, Alfred Deakin provided an explanatory editorial under alias for the British public in the Morning Post: ‘ Our first Governor General may be said to have taken with him all the decorations and display and some of the anticipations that splendidly surrounded the inauguration of our national existence ... we have ... revised our estimate of high office, stripping it too hastily, but not unkindly, of its festal trappings.
The following day Army Chief of Staff Alfred Jodl, distributed copies too, with an appendix stating that the order was " intended for commanders only and must not under any circumstances fall into enemy hands.
Alfred Russel Wallace, the " co-discoverer " of evolution by natural selection, believed that the human mind was too complex to have evolved gradually, and began over time to subscribe to a theory of evolution that took more from Spiritualism than it did the natural world.
: And Alfred, too disclaimed the words that told so much upon her.
An embarrassment of profits at the turn of the twentieth century prompted the company to move into the car business to avoid attracting too much attention from the French government, according to the chairman's son, also Alfred Koerner, speaking in the early 1980s.
When Æthelred died in 871, his sons were too young to be king, and he was succeeded by his younger brother, Alfred the Great.
Faced with the threat of the vampire Batman stalking and killing his opponents, Killer Croc and Two-Face form an alliance with Commissioner Gordon and Alfred Pennyworth to trap Batman in the Batcave and expose him to the sunlight ( although Croc briefly contemplated just physically tearing Batman apart himself before the others pointed out that he was too fast for Croc, the vampire Batman proving more than a match for him physically when they did engage in close-quarter combat despite his withered physical condition ).
Deniker proposed that the concept of race was too confusing, and instead proposed the use of the word " ethnic group " instead, which was later adopted prominently in the work of Julian Huxley and Alfred C. Haddon.
Alfred starts a panic, Chagal and Rebecca rush outside, but it's too late and Sarah's gone.
In 1992, Queen's alumnus Alfred Bader learned of the castle's vacancy and offered to purchase the castle for his wife ; she declined, joking that there would be " too many rooms to clean ".
Then when Alfred Molina gets a call from his friend Spike Jonze, Coogan tries to make amends, but it is too late, and he regrets missing the chance to make the connection.
Escaping by horse carriage, they are now unaware that it is too late for Sarah, who awakens in mid-flight as a vampire and bites Alfred, thus allowing vampires to be released into the world.
Alfred researched rumors about Bane and believed that Bane was excommunicated from the League in his past for being too extreme.
Æthelred's sons were too young to become king when he died in 871, and the throne passed to their uncle, King Alfred the Great.
People like Jules Verne, Edward Bellamy, Howard Scott, Thorstein Veblen, H. G. Wells, Sir Jagardis Chunder Bose, Alfred Korzybski, Walter B. Cannon, Stewart Chase, Clarence Darrow, Arthur C. Clarke, Mark Twain, Jacque Loeb, Carl Sagan and others too numerous to mention.
Between the first and second world wars, during his years as a young actor in Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne's National Theater Company, Fontanne suggested that Cameron's surname sounded " a bit too much like the Hun " and insisted he change it to " Mitchell.

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The principal defender of this view of primary experience as `` causal efficacy '' is Alfred North Whitehead.
Governor Alfred E. Smith was the official host at the children's party.
Alfred wanted to invest in my father's hotel and advance enough money to build a larger place.
My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.
In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.
One of the people who was afraid of Alfred was his own brother, Lew.
Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.
I became fifteen, sixteen, then twenty, and still Tessie Alpert sat on the porch with a rose in her hair, and Alfred got richer and sicker with diabetes.
It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.
The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.
Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.
And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.
Tessie could do nothing for Alfred.
Instead she waited for Alfred to get better and take care of her.
Spring was life -- and Alfred Alpert in his sickroom was death.
Alfred began to put his affairs in order, and he went about it like a man putting his things into storage.
My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.
One day Alfred told him that he had decided to leave everything to me.
He didn't want Alfred to leave me trouble because that's all it would be, and Alfred understood.
The day Alfred left his home and Fleischmanns he gave up the convictions of a lifetime.

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