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He is the all-time top money winner in the history of Scrabble, and earned a particular reputation by clinching victory in major events before the final round.
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Delinquency, juvenile and adult, is at an all-time high!!
* Robert Owen Evans is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and an amateur astronomer who holds the all-time record for visual discoveries of supernovae.
He had a peak Elo rating of 2780, and his 90 total months at world number one is second all-time behind only Garry Kasparov since the inception of the FIDE ranking list in 1971.
* With 164 catches, He is the fourth all-time catch-taker of non-Wicketkeepers, behind Rahul Dravid, Mark Waugh and Stephen Fleming.
Paul Brown, the first head coach and namesake of the Browns, who won 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships as coach of the Browns, is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member, and is widely regarded as one of football's greatest coaches of all-time.
In Major League Soccer, Valderrama scored relatively few goals ( 16 ) for a midfielder, but is the league's second all-time leader in assists ( 114 ) after Steve Ralston ( 121 ), a former teammate.
The all-time series is currently tied 15 – 15 including the playoffs.
" My all-time favorite is Todd Phillips ," proclaimed Union Station bassist Barry Bales in April 2005.
His international goals-to-games ratio remains one of the best for the country and he is regarded as one of the all-time best English strikers.
* 1984 – Tetris, one of the best-selling video games of all-time, is released.
He is the NBA ’ s all-time leading scorer, with 38, 387 points.
The all-time speed record for steam trains is held by an LNER Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive of the LNER in the United Kingdom, number 4468 Mallard, which pulling six carriages ( plus a dynamometer car ) reached 126 mph ( 203 km / h ) on a slight downhill gradient down Stoke Bank on 3 July 1938.
The team MVP that season was Joe Kapp, who threw for seven touchdowns against the Baltimore Colts – still an all-time NFL record ; however, Kapp refused to accept the award, stating, " There is not one most valuable Viking ... there are 40 most valuable Vikings!
In training for that race, the late Stefan Bellof set the all-time lap record for the Nordschleife in his Porsche 956, which is still unbeaten at 6: 11. 13, or over on average ( partially because no major racing has taken place there since 1984 ).
He is also one of the top 5 all-time goalscorers for the Italian National Team, in Serie A and is one of the 3 top-scoring Italians in all competitions.
Its title song was named " One of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock " by music writers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listing and is ranked as one of the all-time top-ten punk songs by a 2006 poll of original British punk figures, as reported in the Rough Guide to Punk.
He is also the all-time home run leader among foreign-born MLB players.
It is worth noting that the world record by a male putter of by Randy Barnes was completed with the spin technique, while the second-best all-time put of by Ulf Timmermann was completed with the glide technique.
The all-time Seahawks playoff record is 8-11.
** The United States dollar exchange rate with the Deutsche Mark falls to 1. 7079 DM, the all-time low so far ; this record is not broken until November 5, 1987.
As a trapshooter, he ranks as one of the all-time greats, and he is enshrined in the Trapshooting Hall of Fame.
He is second on Cincinnati's all-time home run leaders list ( 324 ) behind Johnny Bench and is the Reds'all-time leader in slugging percentage (. 554 ).
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( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.
Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;
He is the first top administration officer to see the bottom of the slump.
Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.
What we must have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's ambition.
Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.
It is a truism of business that no business can be better than its board of directors and its top management.
Another thing that must be taken into consideration is the volume of the area between the top of the piston and the top of the cylinder block when the piston is in top dead center position.
The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.
The single-barrel Stevens 940Y ( under $35 ) is made with a side lever rather than a top-tang lever because many youngsters aren't strong enough to operate a top tang to open a gun -- and the side lever does indeed open very easily.
After trimming off the excess on the frames and transom which was used to fasten them to the jig at a working height, the top of the side planking is installed.
The addition of endurance training later, when the body is mature enough to benefit from it without danger of injury, provides that final quality that makes the top athlete, soldier or citizen.
Another factor that may hold hope is for parallel recognition is, as one man says it: `` that the fad for educating top people along managerial lines is yielding to the technically trained approach ''.
With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.
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`` That is, if we can be sure this is Colcord's money '' --
Lacking the pioneer spirit necessary to write of a new economy, these writers seem to be contenting themselves with an old one that is now as defunct as Confederate money.
The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.
It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.
It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.
He is forced to play for little money, and must often take another job to live.
Either way it sounds like a sizable hunk of money and is.
But DeKalb citizens, those who use the facilities of the cannery, say the cannery is not supposed to make any money.
The approval of only three members of the board of school estimate is required to certify the amount of money to be allotted to the college.
`` And I am not sure that I have any cash -- any money, that is -- but if you will wait just a minute I will write you out a check if I can find my checkbook.
Its elimination would result in the saving of interest costs, heavy when short-term money rates are high, and in freedom from dependence on credit which is not always available when needed most.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to enable the Commission to carry out its functions under this Title.
A minor is subject to tax on his own earnings even though his parent may, under local law, have the right to them and might actually have received the money.
A minor child is allowed A personal exemption of $600 on his own return regardless of how much money he may earn.
This program is based on the policy of designing and building efficient machines which will help produce better textile values -- fabrics whose cost in relation to quality, fashion and utility provide the consumer with better textile products for the money.
There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.
The reason that we are not going ahead full speed to develop high thrust-to-weight engines is that it would cost perhaps a billion dollars -- and you don't spend that sort of money if aircraft are obsolete.
But if space and money are no problem and small children are not on hand every day, it is certainly more restful to have your pool and entertainment area removed from the immediate environs of the house.
In spending his money today, the consumer is pulled in many directions.
This is to say that this was not a course in wise buying or money spending methods, nor a course in how to raise children.
The existence of conflict and of vigorous union demand for an increase in money wages does not contradict the assumption that the union is willing to settle for cost-of-living and productivity-share increases as distinct from a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate.
It is true that, initially, the task was to remove restrictions that, it was thought, inhibited the free flow of money, goods, and labor ; ;
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