Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Midway throughout the show's run, it was competing against another highly rated sitcom, Frasier, which slightly dropped the ratings.

His nationally syndicated radio show, The Michael Reagan Talk Show, aired on stations throughout the United States on the Premiere Radio Networks before being dropped, after which it moved to Radio America.

Ford soon dropped the " J " and worked for Universal Studios, playing minor roles in many television series throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Virginian, The F. B. I., Love, American Style, and Kung Fu.

Following the war, prices dropped significantly, leading to hard times throughout much of the 1920s.

Soon after the entry into force of the present Code of Canon Law at the end of 1983, the adjective " Sacred " was dropped from the names of all Curial Congregations ( it remained in use throughout 1984, as can be seen in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis of that year, but no longer appeared in the 1985 issues of that official bulletin of the Holy See ), and so the dicastery adopted its current name, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

In December 1955, a series of storms dropped torrential rain throughout northern California.

By 1910, the population was below 300 and it dropped steadily throughout the first half of the 20th Century.

This policy was unpopular with voters and was dropped by Labour, along with other more radical policies, throughout the 1920s.

The result was that the wind speed dropped marginally, but often swirled around throughout the stadium, and the view of the Bay was lost.

Anglia dropped the series a number of times to pick up other regions ' Saturday morning programmes throughout Tiswass history.

It would remain throughout the first season then subsequently dropped.

Feral pigeons can be seen eating grass seeds and berries in parks and gardens in the spring, but there are plentiful sources throughout the year from scavenging ( e. g., remnants left inside of dropped fast-food cartons ) and they will also take insects and spiders.

The division suffered from a combination of bad weather and poor pilot navigation which caused many of the airborne troops to be dropped inaccurately throughout the divisional operational area, causing a number of casualties and making conducting operations much more difficult.

The other two battalions that made up 5th Parachute Brigade were the 12th and 13th Parachute Battalions, and much like the 7th Parachute Battalion, both were badly scattered when they were dropped at 00: 50 ; when both units moved away from their rendezvous points neither had more than sixty percent of their strength, although individual airborne troops and small groups would join the battalions throughout the day.

Following a devastating blizzard in 1949, Colorado Air Guard C-47s dropped hay to stranded and starving livestock throughout the Rocky Mountain region.

This is surprising as Guybrush mentions several times throughout the series that he dropped out of school and most pirates lack conventional skills in areas of schooling.

The feature was dropped throughout the lineup during 1993-94.

This convention was quickly dropped, although he remained the show's main character throughout its five-year run.

The use of " CNN " in the title of the channel has been intermittent throughout the channel's broadcast years until mid 2000s when it was dropped altogether for HLN.

After week 3, insect volume dropped and stayed at a lower level throughout all the age classes, fluctuating but always under 25 %.

's 2005 average, which occurred in a year where SAT scores on average dropped throughout the United States.

The village's population rose and dropped dramatically throughout its history ; In 1596, Lubya had a population of 1, 177 dropping to about 400-700 in the beginning of the 19th century.

The number of Bahasa Kadazandusun speakers is thought to have dropped significantly throughout Sabah especially in larger towns or cities like Kota Kinabalu.

He stole from his cabin late that night and crept out into a gusty North Pacific wind and dropped the biwa into the water.

Cinema attendance, having rallied slightly in the late 1970s after an all-time low of 115. 1 million visits in 1976, dropped sharply again from the mid-1980s to end at just 101. 6 million visits in 1989.

Hughes finally dropped the lawsuit in late 1930 and he and hawks became good friends during the legal battle.

The plan seemed to work, as foreclosures dropped, but it was seen as too little, too late.

As late as August 31 it had been projected by the National Hurricane Center that the hurricane would remain at Category 3 or above on September 1, but in the event the center of Gustav made landfall as a strong Category 2 hurricane ( 1 mph below Category 3 ), and dropped to Category 1 soon after.

This group gradually dropped the late Medieval period's complex devices of isorhythm and extreme syncopation, resulting in a more limpid and flowing style.

In the late 1970s The Riordans was dropped with great controversy.

Sony continues to use the " Walkman " brand name for most of their portable audio devices, after the " Discman " name for CD players was dropped in the late 1990s.

In Australia, it was also commonly called Hermitage up to the late 1980s, but since that name is also a French Protected designation of origin, this naming practice caused a problem in some export markets and was dropped.

Hunt led much of the race before a late puncture dropped him down the order.

Arcade video games had declined in popularity so much by the late 1990s, that revenues in the United States dropped to $ 1. 33 billion in 1999, and reached a low of $ 866 million in 2004.

In the late 1850s four boarding houses were planned ( but only three built, namely A, B and C ), to be headed by housemasters: the plan, since dropped, was to increase the number of scholars to 100 so that there would be " College ", " Commoners " and " Houses " consisting of 100 pupils each.

A second daylight parachute drop, Operation Canary, dropped 736 men of the 551st PIB with nearly 100 % effectiveness late on the afternoon of August 15.

Garson's popularity dropped somewhat in the late 1940s, but she remained a prominent film star until the mid-1950s.

Despite this, A & M once again dropped Squeeze from their roster in late 1996.

The IAPI began shortchanging growers and, when world grain prices dropped in the late 1940s, it stifled agricultural production, exports and business sentiment, in general.

In late 2001, the " Dean Witter " name was dropped and the firm became " Morgan Stanley ".

By the late 1990s, the CWC had come to be seen as a second-rate competition with only one or two big name teams available to enter each year and the interest in the tournament from both major clubs and the public dropped.

These were upgraded to warnings the next afternoon, and all advisories were dropped late on September 23 once the storm had passed.

Some temporary dislocations occurred when employment at Aerojet dropped over 90 % in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

By the late 1870s the crime rate had dropped dramatically, but the community was beginning to suffer due to cattle drives taking their cattle elsewhere, like Dodge City and Abilene.

By the late 1940s it had grown again to 550, then dropped to 417 in the early 1970s.

Intensive drilling brought the boom to an end by late 1927, and by 1929 the population had dropped to around 2, 000.