By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

`` By God '', Waddell said, `` we don't want to upset the boy at this time of all times.

By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.

) By the time the streetcar pulled away, he had fallen in love with Paula.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.

By this time, as we shall see, the Tories were already planning to `` punish '' Steele for his political writing by expelling him from the House of Commons.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.

By the time they reach that age, however, Aristotle no longer worries about the evil influence of comedies.

By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.

By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.

By that time, perhaps something better can be done ''.

By that time we should be in a much better position to determine the value of that aircraft as a weapon system.

By this time Henri's entire chest-back-lat-shoulder area is pumped-up to almost bursting point, and Claude takes time to do a bit more pectoral-front deltoid shaping work.

By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.

By the time Barco reached the count of three, the situation seemed to Welch almost too good to be true.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

By this time there is little doubt but what election plans were complete.

By the very nature of the situation, it is the union which has been able to select the time and place to bring pressure upon management.

By the time pupils reach the sixth grade, their ethical and moral standards are fairly well developed ; ;

By this time his friend had disappeared with his pitcher, undetected.

By June 24, his batting average was. 408, prompting Brooklyn pitcher Preacher Roe to comically announce his new method for retiring Musial: " Walk him on four pitches and pick him off first.

By moving the pitcher into a defensive position, Nelson was put into the designated hitter's spot in the batting order while the new pitcher ( Powell ) was placed into the left fielder's place in the batting order.

By the time the DH spot was due up to bat in the 10th inning, pitcher Joaquin Benoit was pinch-hit for by Dan Johnson, who singled to right field.

By having the dot on the bottom part of the ball the pitcher will create good depth to the pitch.

By pronating his wrist upon release, the pitcher can make the pitch break in the same direction as a screwball.

By season's end, however, Lemon had entered more games as a pitcher than a utility player.

In December 1924, after nine years pitching for Cleveland, Coveleski was traded to the Washington Senators for pitcher By Speece and outfielder Carr Smith.

By using a double switch, an incoming pitcher can be left in the game for a substantial period before his turn in the batting lineup arrives, no matter what the previous batting order was.

By placing the index and ring fingers slightly to the inside ( that is, towards the thumb ) of the ball and sharply pronating the forearm at release, a pitcher can make the ball move downward and inside.

By doing so, the pitcher eliminates the possibility of tipping off your pitch.

By rotating the wrist ( before the release ) the pitcher can change the movement from resembling a fastball to resembling a curveball.

By the time he retired in, he was the winningest pitcher in World Series history ( his World Series record with the Yankees and A's was 6-4 ).

By pouring the pitcher of water repeatedly down a wooden bench onto the wall to soften the mortar, and then squeezing the water out of the bread where it had collected at the bottom of the wall.

It was his habit to leave the pitcher there on his way to dinner .... By and by, gorged with steam beer, and overcome by the heat of the room, the cheap tobacco, and the effects of his heavy meal, he dropped off to sleep.

By the end of his third season in the minors, Cabrera was racking up the numbers one would expect from a power pitcher.

By now, the Astros viewed Bell as an expensive liability, and on December 23, they traded him and star pitcher Mike Hampton to the New York Mets for Roger Cedeno, Octavio Dotel, and Kyle Kessel.

By July 25, his record stood at eight wins and 11 losses, but after he pitched nine straight complete games ( including two-hit and three-hit shutouts on August 27 and September 6, respectively ) through September 6 and worked 86 consecutive innings without the need of a relief pitcher, which set an Astros club record, it was clear that he was on a winning streak.

By June 2009, a figure as high as $ 15 million was floated for collegian pitcher Stephen Strasburg.