Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.

Orion and Defence were unable to immediately pursue, as Defence had lost its fore topmast and Orion was narrowly missed by an improvised fireship that drifted through the battle.

His group systematically bombarded elements with slow neutrons, and during their experiments with uranium, narrowly missed observing nuclear fission.

A prodigious home run hitter, Greenberg narrowly missed breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1938, when he was again voted to the All-Star Team and hit 58 home runs, leading the league for the second time.

Kosiński was friends with Roman Polanski, with whom he attended the National Film School in Łódź, and said he narrowly missed being at Polanski and Sharon Tate's house on the night Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's followers in 1969, due to lost luggage.

While the Hungarian team narrowly missed winning the Bronze medal, Polgár finished 10 / 13 for the second highest points total of any player in the Olympiad and a rated performance level of 2772.

Meanwhile, Alexander II invaded northern England again, taking Carlisle in August and then marching south to give homage to Prince Louis for his English possessions ; John narrowly missed intercepting Alexander along the way.

In 2010, a rebuilding year, the Wizards finished third in the Eastern Conference and narrowly missed qualifying for the playoffs.

In 1985, they acquired Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter from the Montreal Expos and won 98 games, but narrowly missed the playoffs.

They were out of contention until the 1997 season when they narrowly missed the playoffs.

In 2010 Powers narrowly missed earning a spot on the US Olympic Team, this time for snowboard cross.

He also narrowly missed out on a second Brownlow Medal, finishing three votes behind the three joint winners Mark Ricciuto, Nathan Buckley and Adam Goodes.

The new Chelsea side challenged for honours during the 1960s, with Bonetti a key figure throughout, although more often than not the team narrowly missed out.

That was his last trophy with the club, although they narrowly missed out on more in the following years, losing in the 1972 League Cup final to Stoke City and in the semi-finals of the same competition to Norwich City a year later.

* In 1844, President Tyler narrowly missed being killed ( along with Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer ) by the explosion of a bow gun on board the U. S. S.

She won the titles in the 100 m, 200 m and 80 m hurdles all with large margins of victory ( four tenths or more ), but narrowly missed out on a fourth win in the relay, which was won by the British team.

The veteran team narrowly missed the playoffs, despite having a losing record at 36 – 46.

In the 1996 – 97 season, the Bulls narrowly missed out on a second consecutive 70-win season by losing their final two games to finish 69 – 13, and repeated their home dominance going 39 – 2 at the United Center.

Decimated by these ailments, the Lightning narrowly missed the playoffs.

Promotion was narrowly missed in 1947 – 48 when they finished in third place, a feat repeated the following season ( despite having an eight point lead with eight games to play ) whilst in 1949 – 50 they were to be denied promotion by 0. 06 of a goal, missing out on second place to Sheffield United.

In World War 2 the church was narrowly missed by a German bomb that destroyed houses in the nearby Hollyhock Square.

He narrowly missed Preston's head, striking him on the arm instead.

Later, Columbia narrowly missed becoming the capital of Pennsylvania ; however, Harrisburg was chosen instead, being closer to the state ’ s geographical center.

During the First World War, it served as a military observation post and narrowly missed destruction during World War II.

On 1 October 2006, Lula narrowly missed winning another term in the first round of elections.

The ruthless and belligerent Armstrong led his team back to England in 1921 where his men lost only two games late in the tour to narrowly miss out of being the first team to complete a tour of England without defeat.

Previously, the Twins had narrowly beat out the Royals for the 1987 American League West pennant, in which the Twins later took the World Series versus the St. Louis Cardinals.

However, the situation in Western Australia and South Australia, where the party is more clearly differentiable from the Liberals, is quite different, with the Nationals narrowly missing out on winning a second seat in South Australia in 2006 and winning a safe Liberal seat in Western Australia in 2005.

Meanwhile, the Titans started out their postseason by narrowly defeating the Buffalo Bills, 22 – 16, on a famous, trick kickoff return play that became known in NFL Lore as the Music City Miracle.

For only the second time in his NHL career, Gretzky finished second in scoring, but narrowly beat out Pittsburgh's Mario Lemieux ( who scored 199 points ) for the Hart Trophy as MVP.

The team finished as Division One runners-up in 1924 – 25, narrowly losing out to Huddersfield Town, but were relegated in 1926 – 27.

Also on this date: Chuck Yeager " while testing an NF-104A rocket-augmented aerospace trainer, he narrowly escaped death when his aircraft went out of control at 108, 700 feet ( nearly 21 miles up ) and crashed.

In this overwhelmingly Democratic state, he was elected after the Democratic nominee, George P. Mahoney, a Baltimore paving contractor and perennial candidate running on an anti-integration platform, narrowly won the Democratic gubernatorial primary out of a crowded slate of eight candidates, trumping early favorite Carlton R. Sickles.

Janmaat narrowly escaped with his life, CD secretary ( and later wife of Janmaat ) Wil Schuurman lost a leg because of injuries sustained jumping out of a window to escape the fire.

George W. Bush won the county narrowly in 2004 with 53 % of the vote, while Barack Obama slightly edged out John McCain in 2008, receiving 51 % of the vote countywide becoming the first Democrat to win Saratoga County since 1996.

Balaguer was narrowly reelected in 1990, defeating his old foe Juan Bosch by only 22, 000 votes out of 1. 9 million votes cast amid charges of fraud.

His debts would stay with him for the rest of life: he narrowly avoided bankruptcy and had to be bailed out by wealthy sitters and friends, and died insolvent.

Some theorists have sought to define " well temperament " more narrowly to exclude fifths wider than pure, which rules out many such schemes.

Last man out for 49 in a total of 116 in the first innings, he defied a pitch that had begun to seam and swing after a shower and cloud cover as Australia narrowly avoided the follow on.

In November 2004, Mobile County voters narrowly ( 500 votes out of 100, 000 cast on the issue ) defeated a local amendment which would have allowed Prichard to set up a special trade zone.

The Surf City Beach Patrol ( SCBP ) won the Surf City Epic, Lavallette, Ortley Beach, Island Beach State Park, the Midway Beach, and " Islands " Tournaments in 2008, narrowly missing out on victories at Sandy Hook ( 2nd ) and the Ship Bottom ( 2nd ) " State Tournament " losing by only a combined 4. 5 points.

narrowly missed out on promotion to National League 2 in 2005 / 06, losing a play-off to Nuneaton.

Horwitz writes that this was not just limited to Bacon, and that " after the dramatic confrontations between Lord Chief Justice Coke and Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, chancellors took care to circumscribe the Court's corrective jurisdiction and to focus more narrowly on territories they had staked out as peculiarly their own ".