Fred Rankin looked at him.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

`` Dr. Glenn, I've got a lot of blood '', Fred spoke up, `` plenty of it.

`` Fred, your blood matches your father's, all right '', Dr. Glenn said.

Fred demanded.

`` Because, Fred, it could do him no good.

At his death Fred and Ralph, my husband, were named executors of the estate under the terms of the will.

Fred and Ralph qualified as executors and paid off what debts were currently due, and they were all current, since Papa was never one to allow bills to go unpaid.

After they had paid all his debts and the funeral costs, Ralph and Fred had some fourteen thousand dollars, as I remember, with which to pay the bequests.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

Consequently, Fred and Tom, the two who had been provided college educations, signed statements to the effect that each had received his bequest in full, and Effie and I were each allotted $5000.

Tom had received four years of education at the University of North Carolina and two at Harvard, and Fred had been in and out of Georgia Tech and Carneigie Tech and part of the time had been a self-help student.

So, because he had received less than Tom, it was felt proper that Fred should receive the few hundred dollars that remained.

With a wary eye on the farmer's bull, Fred Somers of Montpelier and Mr. St. John marked the field with a red table cloth.

Assistant Prosecutor Fred Lewis, who tried both the Hengesbach and Pohl cases, said he did not know what would be done about two arson charges pending against Pohl.

The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.

Other officers are Angelo J. Scampini, vice president, Joseph V. Arata, treasurer, and Fred J. Casassa, secretary.

But plain old bean soup, served daily since the turn of the century ( at the insistence of the late Sen. Fred Dubois of Idaho ), made clear to the citizenry that the Senate's stomach was in the right place.

* 1913 – Fred Davis, English snooker player ( d. 1998 )

The Australians were greatly demoralised by the manner of their second-innings collapse, but fast bowler Fred Spofforth, spurred on by some gamesmanship by his opponents, refused to give in.

This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.

Arizona State Sun Devils football was founded in 1897 under coach Fred Irish.

One example was recorded in 1948, by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, Sidney Lippman, and later Perry Como, called A, You're Adorable:

Nineteen-year-old rookie first baseman Fred Merkle, later to become one of the best players at his position in the league, was on first base, with teammate Moose McCormick on third with two out and the game tied.

In England, at around the same time Fred Root was one of the main proponents of the same tactic.

One was Fred Hoyle's steady state model, whereby new matter would be created as the Universe seemed to expand.

Chaplin's years with the Fred Karno company had a formative effect on him as an actor and filmmaker ; Simon Louvish writes that the company was his " training ground ".

The other possibility was Fred Hoyle's steady state model in which new matter would be created as the galaxies moved away from each other.

A film version of the book, starring Morgan Freeman, Fred Ward and Greg Kinnear and directed by Robert Benton, was released in 2007.

" One of the biggest stories of the season transpired as the club made a midseason deal for Fred McGriff, which was drawn out for nearly a month as McGriff debated waiving his no-trade clause, as the Cubs led the wild card race by 2. 5 games in early September.

In 1965, Fred Gastoff invented the vinyl pom-pon, which was introduced into competitions by the International Cheerleading Foundation ( now the World Cheerleading Association or WCA ).

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

This highly publicized tournament included hula hoops as holes, published, rules, hole lengths, pars, penalties, Wham-O prizes and, an event in which Fred Morrison, the Frisbee inventor was in attendance ( see article published in the fall issue of Discgolfer Magazine " Disc Golf's Unknown Pioneer " www. omagdigital. com / display_article. php? id = 835174 ).

Also from the Homeless Brother album, " Wonderful Baby " was a number 1 on the AOR chart in 1975 and was later recorded by Fred Astaire.

In their second terms, Michael Dukakis ( governor ) and Fred Salvucci ( secretary of transportation ) came up with the strategy of tying the two projects together — thereby combining the project that the business community supported with the project that they and the City of Boston supported.

The next year, Phage Φ-X174, with only 5386 base pairs, became the first DNA-genome project to be completed, by Fred Sanger.

The chief architect of the S / 360 was Gene Amdahl, and the project was managed by Fred Brooks, responsible to Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr.

The world's first trackball invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy | Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project in 1952.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that " adding manpower to a late software project makes it later ".

Presented to Fred Wells as ' project p-57 ' ( this was the plane Wells had taught American pilots to fly during WWII ), Mills stated, " This one will fly.

In addition, Mary-Kate has embarked on a solo fashion project with celebrity stylists Jane Belfry and Fred Holston.

Nilsson's next project was an animated film, The Point !, created with animation director Fred Wolf, and broadcast on ABC television on February 2, 1971, as an " ABC Movie of the Week ".

The world's first trackball invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy | Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project in 1952.

The project began in 2002 when the original creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III released the source code of the 3DO version as open source under the GPL.

In 1971 Fred collaborated with Jack Hatfield, a programmer at JPL, to write an enhanced version of RETRIEVE which became the JPLDIS project.

His first credited Broadway musical was The Rink in 1984, a project he entered after the score by composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb had been written.

* In 1994, Fred Gardner started a " Best of AVA " project, came upon the Tinasky letters, and learned from Anderson the latter's belief that Pynchon wrote them.

was an animation project guided by Fred Seibert, former Creative Director of MTV Networks and President of Hanna-Barbera.

Shortly afterward, Gassée ordered a paperback copy of Fred Brooks's The Mythical Man-Month for all product-development employees, in the hope of inspiring good sense in project management.

A group known as the " San Fernando Syndicate ", a group of investors who bought land in the San Fernando Valley based on inside knowledge that the Los Angeles aqueduct would soon irrigate it, as well as Fred Eaton, Mulholland and others connected with the project have long been criticized for using deceptive tactics and underhanded methods to obtain water rights and block the Bureau of Reclamation from building water infrastructure for the residents in Owens Valley.

The estate was purchased by a Chicago couple with strong Irish connections Fred and Kay Krehbiel who partnered with Jim Reynolds, to form Ballyfin Demesne Ltd. which has overseen a nine-year restoration project which has brought the house back to life.

Early contributors included Rick Meyers ( project lead and MPW Shell command interpreter ), Jeff Parrish ( MPW Shell editor ), Dan Smith ( MPW Shell commands ), Ira Ruben ( assembler and many of the tools including Backup, PasMat, and more ), Fred Forsman ( Make, Print, SADE, and assembler macro processor ), Al Hoffman ( Pascal compiler ), Roger Lawrence ( Pascal and C compilers ), Ken Friedenbach ( linker ), Johan Strandberg ( Rez, DeRez, RezDet ), Steve Hartwell ( C libraries ), and Dan Allen ( MacsBug, editor ).

When developing a new hardware generation of unified System / 360 ( or S / 360 ) computers, IBM had originally committed to delivering a single operating system, OS / 360, also compatible with low-end machines ; but hardware was already available and the OS / 360 project fell further and further behind schedule, as described at length by Fred Brooks.

Before leaving Harvard, Greenstein was involved in a project with Fred Lawrence Whipple to explain Karl Jansky's discovery of radio waves from the Milky Way and to propose a source.

Fred Eaton used his inside advance information about the aqueduct project to enrich himself and his associates at the expense of the city of Los Angeles and the Owens Valley landowners.

Skeleton Crew originally began in 1982 as an unnamed quartet, but before their first performance, two of the band members suffered collapsed lungs within two weeks of each other, leaving ex-Henry Cow guitarist Fred Frith and improvisational cellist Tom Cora from Curlew with the choice of continuing or abandoning the project.