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The exception was an Iron Mountain settler named William Lewis.
William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.
Miriam was stopped at the Taliesin gate, and William Weston, now the estate foreman, came out to parley.
she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.
he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.
A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.
William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.
But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.
The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.
He wrote eloquently to William James that impartial history was not only impossible but undesirable.
To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.
In the earlier sessions there was plentiful discussion on the natural law, which Dr. William V. O'Brien of Georgetown University, advanced as the basis for widely acceptable ethical judgments on foreign policy.
William, he was called, in honor of the man who was at once Shelley's pensioner and his most bitter detractor.
After the Juniors were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the Junior Class, Mrs. William H. Long, Jr. was introduced as the first speaker.
Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.
But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.
William Hitchcock, who retired in 1938, was a veteran of thirty-four years' local service.
After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.
Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.
Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.
William was adamant on one point: under no circumstances would he allow the Negroes to remain on the plantation with his and Henry's slaves if they were told of their coming freedom.
One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.
Appointment of William S. Pfaff Jr., 41, as promotion manager of The Times-Picayune Publishing Company was announced Saturday by John F. Tims, president of the company.

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The idea of a stored-program computer was already present in the design of J. Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly's ENIAC, but was initially omitted so that it could be finished sooner.
The last book Thompson finished was Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law ( 1993 ).
In 1807, William Wordsworth finished his sonnet on the theme of a modernity deadened to Nature, which opens " The world is too much with us ", with a sense of nostalgia for the lost richness of a world numinous with deities:
Between 1512 and 1519, Thomas More worked on a History of King Richard III, which was never finished, but which greatly influenced William Shakespeare's play Richard III.
With a swift campaign, William seized Le Mans from Fulk's forces, and had finished his campaign by 30 March 1073.
Much of the Historia was finished before William left to attend the Lateran Council, but new additions and corrections were made after his return in 1180, perhaps because he now realized that European readers would also be interested in the history of the kingdom.
Its church was finished in about 1094 and consecrated during the reign of his son William Rufus.
Sir William died in 1557, but Bess finished the house in the 1560s and lived there with her fourth husband, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
The City of Los Angeles and William Mulholland were building the Owens River aqueduct, starting in 1905 and to be finished in 1913.
The result was that Hawksmoor's scheme would never be executed, the college was finished later in the 18th century by James Gibbs and early in the 19th century by William Wilkins.
At the Democratic National Convention, Johnson finished a distant third in the vice-presidential balloting, receiving only the votes of the Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois delegations ; William B. Lewis had to persuade him to withdraw
A slightly revised design was made by William Henry Barlow and Sir John Hawkshaw ; it has a wider, higher and sturdier deck than Brunel intended, triple chains instead of double, and the towers were left as rough stone rather than being finished in Egyptian style.
" Friedenthal claimed that " The book had been finished ", though not every chapter was complete ; he used a working copy of the manuscript Zweig left behind him to apply " the finishing touches ", and Friedenthal rewrote the final chapters ( Balzac, translated by William and Dorothy Rose York: Viking, 1946, pp. 399, 402 ).
Good news came though when Carnegie secured a $ 2 million dollar loan and finished the steel mill to roll its first steel under the supervision of superintendent William R. Jones.
Construction was finished in 1859 by Luther and William H. Trescott.
In 1910, Indiana entrepreneur William J. Oliver finished work on the Knoxville, Sevierville and Eastern Railroad, which was Sevier County's first standard gauge rail line.
The chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors said commutes were especially long for residents during the period studied because the county had not finished building roads to support the new residential areas that had just been built.
The Progressives finished second nationally ahead of the incumbent Republican, President William Howard Taft, but still lost the election to the Democrats and their candidate, Woodrow Wilson.
To ensure that they would be in the latest taste, William was sent down to Dorset to make careful notes of the interiors recently finished at Kingston Lacy for Sir Ralph Bankes to designs by Sir Roger Pratt.
Also in 1700 he finished second in a competition to write music for William Congreve's masque The Judgement of Paris ( John Weldon won ).
William Edward Colby, the first secretary of the Sierra Club, called the finished trail " a most appropriate memorial to John Muir, who spent many of the best years of his life exploring the region which it will make accessible.
Ordinarily an engraver, such as William Hogarth, had his own shop or took his finished engravings to a publisher.
William ( Bill ) Greeley the son of a Congregational minister, who finished at the top of that first Yale forestry graduating class of 1904 was hand picked by Pinchot to be Region 1 forester of the Forest Service with responsibility over in 22 National Forests in 4 western states ( all of Montana, much of Idaho, and Washington, and a corner of South Dakota ).
In the end, Pinchot finished a distant third, behind Pepper and Vare, who went on to defeat former Labor Secretary William Wilson in the general election.

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