For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Then he played nine imaginary holes of golf, choosing his handicap, his irons, his stance, his opponents, and his weather in detail, but the green of the links seemed faded in the light of his business worries.

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players.

With the return of South Africa in 1992 after the ending of the apartheid boycott, nine teams played each other once in the group phase, and the top four teams progressed to the semi-finals.

The Wings played nine games against the Canadiens and went 3-5-1 ; they did not play in Europe again until the preseason and start of the 2009-10 NHL season in Sweden against the St. Louis Blues.

This meant that the actors played a scene up to a line marked on the ground nine feet from the camera lens, which meant that they were shown cut off at the waist in the image.

Starring as a first baseman and outfielder with the Tigers ( 1930, 1933 – 46 ) and doing duty only briefly with the Pirates ( 1947 ), Greenberg played only nine full seasons.

When Connick, Jr., was nine years old, he performed the Piano Concerto No. 3 Opus 37 of Beethoven with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra ( now the Louisiana Philharmonic ), and later played a duet with Eubie Blake at the Royal Orleans Esplanade Lounge in New Orleans.

During the tournament he played in eight of the team's nine games, averaging 34. 00 with the bat, while his medium pace was used in bowling 20 overs.

In 1984 in Budapest, Sophia and Judit, at the time nine and seven years of age respectively, played two games of blindfold chess against two masters which they won.

This is played with nine players on either side, in a field of no specific measurements.

In the 11 Tests that he played there, he made at least one century in nine of them.

They had them done after the filming of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy, since the characters they played were the nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring.

* super tic-tac-toe is played like nine board tic-tac-toe except that the game does not end when a player wins a game on one of the small boards.

Popular variations are " American " and " Long ", where the games are played to seven and nine respectively.

He says he himself played for the West Gloucestershire club as early as 1857, when he was nine years old, and had 11 innings in 1859.

* Shax is played on the board of Nine Men's Morris, but with somewhat different rules and with twelve pieces per player instead of nine.

* Actor Milos Milos, the Serbian actor who played the Incubus, killed his girlfriend, Barbara Ann Thomason Rooney – the estranged fifth wife of Mickey Rooney – and himself in 1966, nine months before the film's premiere.

When the main attack came at the opposite end of the line on July 21, the brigade played a relatively minor role, although it endured artillery fire for nine hours.

Pertwee also voiced the character of " Spotty " in the 1980s cartoon series SuperTed and in 1985 he starred in Do You Know The Milkyway ?, a television adaptation of Karl Wittlinger's stage play in which he played Dr. Neuross and another nine characters.

After nine years there, he briefly played for another club from Utrecht, Elinkwijk.

The puzzle can be played with any number of disks, although many toy versions have around seven to nine of them.

He won two Emmy Awards in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons between 1957 and 1966.

* Paul Drake, Jr .: Paul Drake's son ( also a private investigator ), played by William Katt in nine of the TV Movies listed below ; Katt is the son of actress Barbara Hale ( see above ).

The major effect of these advances appears to lie in the part they have played in the industrial revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment.

I'd have been more impressed if I hadn't remembered that she'd played Hedda Gabler in her highschool dramatics course.

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.

Back East the more affluent juvenile delinquents, who could afford hyped-up autos instead of switch blades as lethal weapons, played this same game and called it `` Chicken ''.

Australian football is played in more than 30 countries around the world.

Another of the show's signature elements is that many songs end on a single brief note played by one or more instruments.

During the Civil war, soldiers from different parts of the United States played baseball together, leading to a more unified national version of the sport.

In the very early part of the 20th century, known as the " dead-ball era ", baseball rules and equipment favored the " inside game " and the game was played more violently and aggressively than it is today.

Blackjack is a comparing card game between a player and dealer and played with one or more decks of 52 cards.

Today the sport is played in over 40 countries with more than 50 member national authorities.

There is also a variant in Bolivia when it is played in a Chakana or Inca Cross grid, which adds more complications to the game.

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

( This initial version of the song played more slowly and about half an octave higher than the later hit version.

Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.

In practice for publicly-traded companies, the managers ( inside directors ) who are purportedly accountable to the board of directors have historically played a major role in selecting and nominating the directors who are voted on by the shareholders, in which case more " gray outsider directors " ( independent directors with conflicts of interest ) are nominated and elected.

Wills and the Texas Playboys played dances throughout the West to more than 10, 000 people every week.

Natural instruments are still played for period performances and some ceremonial functions, and are occasionally found in more modern scores, such as those by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.

For the majority of games, there is no one set of universal rules by which the game is played, and the most common ruleset is no more or less than that.

The Sui Dynasty, which managed to reunite the country in 589 after nearly four centuries of political fragmentation, played a role more important than its length of existence would suggest.

The steel-string and electric guitars characteristic to the rise of rock and roll in the post-WWII era became more widely played in North America and the English speaking world.

In Tuskegee, they played local parties and fraternity parties playing mostly cover tunes and some original songs with their original singer, James Ingram ( another " James Ingram " – not the more famous solo artist ).

Because the Cubs lost two seasons to the Great Chicago Fire, the Braves have played more seasons, although the Cubs hold the record for oldest team still in its original city.

The trumpet would play fanfare-like passages, while the cornet played more melodic passages.

, Dungeons & Dragons remained the best-known and best-selling role-playing game, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US $ 1 billion in book and equipment sales.

While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, producers working behind the scenes played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the " disco sound.