He had that day attended a country auction, and he had come back with a prize.

He had attended three universities in the United States.

Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

He expressed surprise to learn that pretty, blonde Patricia Holbrook, 16, of Mount Rainier, had attended the Joseph P. Kennedy School for the Handicapped in Boston.

The family attended a Separate Baptists church, which had restrictive moral standards and opposed alcohol, dancing, and slavery.

All Israel and Judah flocked to his side, and David, attended only by the Cherethites and Pelethites and his former body guard that had followed him from Gath, found it expedient to flee.

*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

Graham had briefly attended Bob Jones College, and the university conferred an honorary degree on him in 1948.

Monet had insisted that the occasion be simple ; thus only about fifty people attended the ceremony.

The singer, who died in 2009, was not a Fulham fan and had no interest in football whatsoever, but attended a Fulham match once, saying " Fulham fans were like people at my concerts.

The Charlottetown Conference, as it came to be called, was also attended by a slew of visiting delegates from the neighbouring colony of Canada, who had largely arrived at their own invitation with their own agenda.

In the fall of 1872 he entered the Friedrichskolleg Gymnasium ( Collegium fridericianum, the same school that Immanuel Kant had attended 140 years before ), but after an unhappy period he transferred ( fall 1879 ) to and graduated from ( spring 1880 ) the more science-oriented Wilhelm Gymnasium.

Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney had briefly attended Dalhousie Law School, although failed after his first year.

While dominatrices come from many different backgrounds, it has been noted that a considerable number are very well-educated, with a recent survey of New York dominatrices revealing that 39 % had attended graduate school / university, including well-regarded institutions such as Columbia University.

Stoiber attended the Ignaz-Günther-Gymnasium in Rosenheim, where he received his Abitur ( high school diploma ) in 1961, although he had to repeat one year for failing in Latin.

By early July he had been replaced and attended his first meeting of the Congress on July 7, 1778.

In August, Oxford attended Paul de Foix, who had come to England to negotiate a marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou, the future King Henry III of France.

Some sources indicate that Arden was Catholic based solely on the fact that she had, at one point, attended a Roman Catholic convent school.

Not long after that, in 1883, Georg Cantor, who attended lectures by Weierstrass, published examples of subsets of the real line known as Cantor sets, which had unusual properties and are now recognized as fractals.

Douglass had met with Auld's daughter, Amanda Auld Sears, some years prior ; she had requested the meeting and had subsequently attended and cheered one of Douglass ' speeches.

Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.

All the three-cylinder two-stroke post-war cars had some sporting potential and formed the basis for many rally victories in the 1950s and beginning of 1960s.

The rally organiser, the Hindu Rights Action Force, had called the protest over alleged discriminatory policies favouring ethnic Malays.

At that rally, Soliah said that her fellow SLA members had been:

Over a million Germans had participated in the 1934 rally in Nuremberg.

Though Hezbollah organized a very successful rally, opposition leaders were quick to point out that Hezbollah had active support from Lebanon's government and Syria.

However, in every previous case there had been an obvious alternative monarch around whom the rebellion could rally.

In February 1940, during the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, Nurmi returned to the United States with his protégé Taisto Mäki, who had become the first man to run the 10, 000 m under 30 minutes, to raise funds and rally support to the Finnish cause.

Lina was already a Nazi Party follower ; she had attended her first rally in 1929.

They find a member of Charlie Company, 506th, who informs them that his drop zone was at Vierville and that Baker and Charlie companies had the same rally point.

She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover along-side her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as " Man and Wife of the Year )" Both husband and wife were on good terms with Time Magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China.

* March 9 – Yohannes IV is killed in the Battle of Metemma ; Sudanese forces, who had been almost defeated, rally and destroy the Ethiopian army.

Rabin had been attending a mass rally at the Kings of Israel Square ( now Rabin Square ) in Tel Aviv, held in support of the Oslo Accords.

As explained by Allan Cohen, co-founder of the San Francisco Oracle, the purpose of the rally was twofold: to draw attention to the fact that LSD had just been made illegal — and to demonstrate that people who used LSD were not criminals, nor were they mentally ill.

The Liège continued as uncompromisingly an open road event run to an impossible time schedule, and remained Europe's toughest rally until 1964, by which time it had turned to the wilds of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria to find traffic-free roads ; but in the end the pressures were irresistible.

A cry went up that national bankruptcy had been declared, and thousands of the lower class of ouvriers began to rally to Babeuf's flag.

On February 2, 1849, at a political rally held in the Apollo Theater, a young Roman priest, the Abbé Arduini, had made a speech in which he had declared that the temporal power of the popes was a " historical lie, a political imposture, and a religious immorality .".

Khosrau had already fled to the mountains of Susiana to try to rally support for the defense of Ctesiphon.

At a mass rally in Beijing, Jiang directed a " struggle session " against a woman, Fan Jin, who had married Jiang's second husband after Jiang separated from him in 1931.

The Mini Cooper and Cooper " S " were sportier versions that were successful as rally cars, winning the Monte Carlo Rally four times from 1964 through to 1967, although in 1966 the Mini was disqualified after the finish, along with six other British entrants, which included the first four cars to finish, under a questionable ruling that the cars had used an illegal combination of headlamps and spotlights.

Meanwhile he arranged rallies of his own, often under threat ( for example, taxi drivers were told they had to attend a rally in support of Noriega or lose their licenses ).

The next day, Dumouriez again tried to rally soldiers against the Convention ; however, he found that the artillery had declared for the Republic, leaving him and Louis Philippe with no choice but to go into exile.

But the FLN had succeeded in showing its ability to strike at the heart of French Algeria and to rally and force a mass response to its demands among urban Muslims.