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was and undistinguished
Suetonius, however, with wonderful resolution, marched amidst a hostile population to Londinium, which, though undistinguished by the name of a colony, was much frequented by a number of merchants and trading vessels.
that was Harvard's first < span lang = la > summa cum laude </ span > chemistry degree ; and otherwise his academic record was undistinguished.
His family was relatively undistinguished and lacking in pedigree.
He represented the university at tennis, partnering Bunny Austin, but was academically undistinguished and so neglectful of his studies that he was sent down in 1927.
Hal Erickson of Allmovie noted, "... much of Nielsen's early work was undistinguished ; he was merely a handsome leading man in an industry overstocked with handsome leading men.
Six months earlier, Joe was down on his luck, unable to find work as a screenwriter, having only made a few undistinguished films in his short career.
Though considered a generally dull, undistinguished painter, Pacheco sometimes expressed a simple, direct realism in contradiction to the style of Raphael that he was taught.
In 1620 Essex embarked on what was to be an undistinguished military career prior to the start of the First English Civil War.
Tim Schafer stated that the true inspiration was drawn from films like Double Indemnity, in which a weak and undistinguished insurance salesman finds himself entangled in a murder plot.
Grassmann was an undistinguished student until he obtained a high mark on the examinations for admission to Prussian universities.
An addition, undistinguished but sympathetic to the original wing, was built in the 1960s.
After three undistinguished short-term clerical presidencies in a ten year period, the college was slowly fading out.
His family, the gens Sertoria, was probably of Sabine origin, and was previously undistinguished.
Nothing is known of his life except that his family was poor and undistinguished, and that he owed everything to Sextus Pompeius ( consul AD 14 ), proconsul of Asia, whom he accompanied to the East in 27.
The Edinburgh scholar L. P. Elwell-Sutton, in a 1975 article critical of what he called " pseudo-Sufis " like Gurdjieff and Shah, opined that Graves had been trying to " upgrade " Shah's " rather undistinguished lineage ", and that the reference to Mohammed's senior male line of descent was a " rather unfortunate gaffe ", as Mohammed's sons had all died in infancy.
Although Elwell-Sutton accepted that the family were Sayyids descended from the seventh Imam Musa al-Kadhim, the great-greatgrandson of Hussein ibn Ali, who was the younger son of the marriage of Fatimah ( the daughter of the Prophet ) and Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, he considered this an " undistinguished lineage " with no special sanctity because " Sayyids proliferate throughout the Islamic world, in all walks of society and on both sides of every religious and political fence.
In 1996, he came back for the first of an eight fight comeback, but, apart from beating Jamie Wallace by a 12 round decision at the Gold Coast for the Australian Middleweight title, the comeback was undistinguished.
He was considered a successful but undistinguished vaudevillist until the success of his five-act farce, Un Chapeau de paille d ' Italie ( The Italian Straw Hat ) in August 1851.
At the time of the uprising of Boudica, Tacitus writes that " Londinium ... though undistinguished by the name of a colonia, was much frequented by a number of merchants and trading vessels.
Replacing an earlier undistinguished 18th century church that suffered structural problems through being built on soft ground close to the site of the original castle moat, the new Chapel Royal was built using a timber frame to make it as light as possible.

was and student
Lilian Steichen was an exceptional student.
And with the publication of E. T. Leeds' Archaeology Of The Anglo-Saxon Settlements the student was presented with an organized synthesis of the archaeological data then known.
But that scarcely means that he was the aloof, forbidding type of student who shared few if any activities with his fellows, the banter of the surviving prolusions providing enough evidence to deny this.
Hanging over the bar was an oil painting of a nude Al had accepted from a student at the Corcoran Gallery who needed to eat and drink and was broke.
Hans' student days were at a time when Europe was in a new intellectual ferment following the revolutions in America and in France, Germany and Italy were rising from divisive nationalisms and a strong wave of intellectual awareness was sweeping the Continent.
The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.
The contention needs to be formulated with much greater precision than it ever was during the campaign, but once that has been done, I fail to see how any serious student of world affairs can quarrel with it.
A student orator `` produced tears from a great number of the learned '' even before the punch was served.
When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??
Many a student was able to remain at Spelman, only because of her unobtrusive help.
Here I was accompanied by Mrs. Okamoto ( Fumio's mother ), her son, Mr. Washizu ( a prospective student with whom I have been corresponding for more than a year ), and Mr. Nishima, one of the science teachers.
She knew that I lived at a good address on the Gold Coast, that I had once been a medical student and was thinking of returning to the university to finish my medical studies.
Miss Shirley Joan Meredith, a former student of North Texas State University, was married Saturday to Larry W. Mills, who has attended Arlington State College.
The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.
Thus `` America '', the most widely sung of the patriotic songs, was written by a New England Baptist clergyman, Samuel Francis Smith ( 1808-1895 ), while a student in Andover Theological Seminary.
Richard was a solitary student in New York and acquired, in his remoteness, a thorough if bookish knowledge of Asian lore, literature, life, politics and history.
`` I know you wrote this in a hurry, but, Cady, Dave was only acting president of the student forum for a few days.
Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.
He was first educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where he met fellow student Jefferson Davis.
The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

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