According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

Halliday draws on the work of Bühler and Malinowski.

The articles comprising London Labour and the London Poor were initially collected into three volumes in 1851 ; the 1861 edition included a fourth volume, co-written with Bracebridge Hemyng, John Binny and Andrew Halliday, on the lives of prostitutes, thieves and beggars.

But Halliday ’ s conception of grammar – or ‘ lexicogrammar ’ ( a term he coined to argue that lexis and grammar are part of the same phenomenon ) – is based on a more general theory of language as a social semiotic resource, or a ‘ meaning potential ’ ( see systemic functional linguistics ).

In this discussion of functions of language, Halliday draws on the work of Bühler and Malinowski.

In enumerating his claims about the trajectory of children's language development, Halliday eschews the metaphor of " acquisition ", in which language is considered a static product which the child takes on when sufficient exposure to natural language enables " parameter setting ".

Robin William Askin was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 4 April 1907 at the Crown Street Women's Hospital, the eldest of three sons of Ellen Laura Halliday ( née Rowe ) and William James Askin, an Adelaide-born sailor and worker for New South Wales Railways.

Halliday describes his grammar as built on the work of Saussure, Louis Hjelmslev, Malinowski, J. R. Firth, and the Prague school linguists.

For Halliday, grammar is described as systems not as rules, on the basis that every grammatical structure involves a choice from a describable set of options.

From early on in his account of language, Halliday has argued that it is inherently functional.

Jung Chang and Jon Halliday claim that Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to escape on the Long March, allegedly because he wanted his son Chiang Ching-kuo who was being held hostage by Joseph Stalin back.

One prisoner, Charles Francois Bourchier, stabbed a civilian Alexander Halliday while attempting to escape on 9 September 1808.

Among the more prominent were Toni Halliday, on Original, Djum Djum on Afro-Left and Earl 16 and Cheshire Cat on Release the Pressure.

* Michael Halliday publishes his seminal paper on the systemic functional grammar model.

" Let sleeping murder lie ": this is the proverb ( a variation on " Let sleeping dogs lie ") which is not obeyed by twenty-one year old New Zealander Gwenda Reed ( née Halliday ), who has recently married and now comes to England to settle down there.

* Cesar Romero in Frontier Marshal, 1939, plays Doc Halliday, a surgeon, not a dentist, who is ambushed coming out of the Belle Union tavern after performing surgery on the bartender's son.

Useful summary of Zhang's life based largely on Chang Jung, Jon Halliday, Mao The Unknown Story ( 2005 ).

The 1942 movie The Man Who Wouldn't Die, starring Lloyd Nolan, was based on No Coffin for the Corpse, but the Merlini character was replaced by Michael Shayne, a popular fictional private eye at the time, created by the writer Brett Halliday.

A British scientist called Halliday experimented on this and was said to be on the eve of success when he was kidnapped while on a visit to France.

She led him and turned into a narrow alley and then into a garden told him that Madame Olivier's villa was on the right side then and there Halliday was kidnapped.

Mason is dismissed and Poirot pushes Halliday to tell him what he is holding back.

A Perfect Murder is a 1998 remake directed by Andrew Davis and starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow in which the characters of Halliday and Swann are combined, with the husband ( Douglas ) hiring, or rather coercing, his wife's lover ( played by Viggo Mortensen ) into a scheme to kill her.

Towards the beginning of Dial M For Murder, when Kelly and her lover's character, Mark Halliday ( Robert Cummings ), are shown together in the Wendice flat, and Milland comes home, Kelly greets him with " There you are!

The police are absent, as it has not even been established that a crime has been committed ; officially, Helen Halliday ran off with one of her lovers and either died sometime later or made a clean break with her brother and never contacted anyone at home.

Halliday rarely visited Fagan or her daughter.

Fiske wants to take Graham with him, but Blake makes it clear that he intends to dispose of both her and Halliday.

The British-Chinese writer Jung Chang and her historian husband, Jon Halliday, in their 2005 biography of Mao, Mao: The Unknown Story, write that there was no battle at Luding Bridge.

Halliday has worked in various regions of language study, both theoretical and applied, and has been especially concerned with applying the understanding of the basic principles of language to the theory and practices of education.

Halliday, showing the types of process as they have evolved in English grammarHalliday is notable for his grammatical theory and descriptions, outlined in his book An Introduction to Functional Grammar, first published in 1985.

When confronted with the theory she phones the kidnappers to send Halliday back to the hotel.

Whereas Firth considered systems to refer to possibilities subordinated to structure, Halliday in a certain sense ' liberated ' the dimension of choice from structure and made it the central organising dimension of this theory.

Halliday has tried, then, to develop a linguistic theory and description that is appliable to any context of human language.

Halliday argues that system in the sense in which it was used by Firth was a conception only found in Firth ’ s linguistic theory.

The late Dave G. Halliday was the singer / guitarist from the band Hell, the Derbyshire band who in the mid 1980s were a big influence upon and inspiration for Sabbat.

Speleologist William Halliday argued in 1983 that the story arose from an incident in which hikers from a nearby camp had thrown rocks into the canyon.

Halliday describes himself as a generalist, meaning that he has tried " to look at language from every possible vantage point ", and has described his work as " wander the highways and byways of language ".

Halliday follows Hjelmslev and Firth in distinguishing theoretical from descriptive categories in linguistics.

The main character in an episode from the series's first season, " Portrait of Jocelyn ," is named Mark Halliday.

The best known footballers of their eras to come from Dumfries are probably Dave Halliday, Ian Dickson, Bobby Ancell, Billy Houliston, Jimmy McIntosh, Willie McNaught and Ted McMinn.

The club escaped relegation from the First Division by one point in the 1927 – 28 season despite 35 goals from Dave Halliday. Sunderland's 1937 FA Cup winning side The point was won in a match against Middlesbrough, and they finished in fifteenth place.

Formed in 1903 as a result of the amalgamation of three clubs from Aberdeen, they rarely challenged for honours until the 1950s, when they won each of the major Scottish trophies under manager Dave Halliday.

it has since developed into a major wine producing area, with 17 wineries all located within a short drive from the town centre, the best of which are highly regarded by wine critics ( Halliday, Parker ).

For Halliday register is distinct from dialect.

An example of a phraseological collocation ( from Michael Halliday ) is the expression strong tea.

Chang and Halliday write that “ Shi Zhe observed that Kang was living in a state of deep fear of Mao in this period ” because of his murky past, which had been raised with Mao in many letters from cadres and by the Russians, yet " Far from being put off by Kang ’ s murky past, Mao positively relished it.

During the action of moving service families and holidaymakers to safety from Limassol, Piper Halliday played at the roadside becoming known as " The piper of Cyprus ".

* The Rules of the Game: Pierluigi Collina ( translated from the Italian by Iain Halliday ), Macmillan, 2003.

Halliday contributed material to the Faction Paradox anthology / encyclopedia The Book of the War ( 2002 ) about a Russian Soviet splinter group from the Faction whose members include Anastasia Romanova and Rasputin.

Michael Halliday has argued for a distinction between descriptive and theoretical categories in resolving the matter of the existence of linguistic universals, a distinction he takes from J. R. Firth and Louis Hjelmslev.

He earned his PhD from the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Michael Halliday.

James Halliday ( born 27 February 1927 ) was the leader of the Scottish National Party from 1956 ( following on from Robert McIntyre ) until 1960 ( being replaced by Arthur Donaldson ).