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name and was
That girl last night, what was her name??
For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.
No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.
My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.
Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.
Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.
Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.
But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.
Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.
It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.
An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.
The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.
Her name was Esther Peter.
Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.
Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

name and rediscovered
It was rediscovered by the Europa in 1774, whence the name " Europa Rocks ".
The marketing team revisited the Jello recipes that had been published in past cookbooks and rediscovered Jigglers, although the original recipe did not use that name.
Sefström was a student of Berzelius and, when studying the brittleness of steel in 1830, he rediscovered a new chemical element, to which he gave the name vanadium.
" The cannon, rediscovered in 1898, eventually inspired a name change for the growing community.
The concept was first introduced by Kuo Tsaï Chen in the 1970s, under the name " differential spaces ", then rediscovered by Souriau in the 1980s and later refined by many people.
The name Becan was bestowed on the site by archaeologists who rediscovered the site, meaning " ravine or canyon formed by water " in Yukatek Maya, after the site's most prominent and unusual feature, its surrounding ditch.
This model was originally discovered by Derek J. de Solla Price in 1965 under the term cumulative advantage, but did not reach popularity until Barabási rediscovered the results under its current name ( BA Model ).
In the same preface is included ( a ) the famous problem known by Pappus's name, often enunciated thus: Having given a number of straight lines, to find the geometric locus of a point such that the lengths of the perpendiculars upon, or ( more generally ) the lines drawn from it obliquely at given inclinations to, the given lines satisfy the condition that the product of certain of them may bear a constant ratio to the product of the remaining ones ; ( Pappus does not express it in this form but by means of composition of ratios, saying that if the ratio is given which is compounded of the ratios of pairs one of one set and one of another of the lines so drawn, and of the ratio of the odd one, if any, to a given straight line, the point will lie on a curve given in position ); ( b ) the theorems which were rediscovered by and named after Paul Guldin, but appear to have been discovered by Pappus himself.
She rediscovered this box during the band naming process and the team accepted it as the name for the band.
They were later rediscovered by James Sheffield and given their current name, probably because shags and other seabirds frequent them.
It is not purple ; its unusual name comes from the Purple Mountain Observatory in China, where it was rediscovered in 1980.
The name was only revived in 1471, inspired by the rediscovered text of Germania, to invoke the warlike qualities of the ancient Germans in a crusade against the Turks.
W. B. R. Lickorish later rediscovered this result with a simpler proof and in addition showed that Dehn twists along explicit curves generate the mapping class group ( this is called by the punning name " Lickorish twist theorem "); this number was later improved by Stephen P. Humphries to, for, which he showed was the minimal number.
The method has been rediscovered by the parallel processing community recently under the name " Domain Decomposition ".
After 1919, this name was rediscovered and introduced again, now for administrative purposes, by the new Yugoslav administration.
At the time of the poster's release the name " Rosie " was not associated with the picture ; that came after 1982 when the poster was rediscovered in the US National Archives.

name and course
Of course the higher officials could add or place a name on the list wherever they wished.
He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.
Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.
For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).
Other synonyms could of course serve the same function, and for the sake of ease I shall speak of kennings and epithets in the widest and loosest possible sense, and name, for example, Gar-Dene a kenning for the Danes.
She could have found out my first name, of course -- that wouldn't be difficult.
" That was a fortunate coincidence, of course, that the name should pack a backwoods connotation.
He also sent the Saxons back over the Weser and thus secured his borders — in the name of the new king Clotaire, of course.
Though the name came to be commonly used to refer to the whole of southern Mesopotamia, Chaldea proper was in fact the vast plain in the far south east formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris, extending to about four hundred miles along the course of these rivers, and about a hundred miles in average width.
Besides the colour and the Dragon 64's serial port ( and the model name stickers, of course ), the two machines look exactly the same.
Orektika is the formal name for appetizers and is often used as a reference to eating a first course of a cuisine other than Greek cuisine.
Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th century ; and the name " Hittite " has become attached to the civilization uncovered at Boğazköy.
Many groups and movements have achieved profound social changes over the course of the 20th century in the name of human rights.
The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River.
Origen ( 184 / 185 – 253 / 254 ) interpreted such Old Testament passages as being about manifestations of the Devil ; but of course, writing in Greek, not Latin, he did not identify the Devil with the name " Lucifer ".
The German title satirizes the German custom of giving a subtitle to the name of dramas in the form of " Ein Drama in ... Akten " ( A Drama of ... acts ), which became dictums in colloquial usage for any event with an unpleasant or dramatic course, e. g. " Bundespräsidentenwahl-Drama in drei Akten " ( Federal presidential Elections-Drama in Three Acts ).
It was only with the 18th century visits of Mungo Park, who travelled down the Niger River and visited the great Sahelian empires of his day, that Europeans correctly identified the course of the Niger, and extending the name to its entire course.
1 Chronicles 24: 7-19 ; Nehemiah 11 ; 12 ), with each course ( or family ) assigned its proper order and the name of each town or village in Galilee where it settled.
In the original Omaha poker game, players were only dealt two hole cards and had to use both to make a hand combined with community cards .< ref name =" Super System "> Doyle Brunson, < cite > Super System: A course in Power Poker </ cite >, Cardoza Publishing ( 1978 ), ISBN 1-58042-081-8 This version of Omaha is defined in the glossary of Super / System ( under Omaha ) as being interchangeable with " Tight Holdem ".
In the course of the 11th century, in the time after John XIX, the entry for John XIV had been misread as referring to two different popes of this name.
President Reagan, has remained popular as an antitax hero despite raising taxes eleven times over the course of his presidency, all in the name of fiscal responsibility.
The main shelter of the four is a grassy dome ( known as the " Tubbytronic Superdome ," though the name of the residence is not mentioned at all during the entire course of the series ) implanted in the ground accessed through sliding down a hole at the top.
If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred ; or, in other words, the constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents .< ref name =" fed78 ">
Unlike elsewhere in Beckett's work, no bicycle appears in this play, but Hugh Kenner in his essay " The Cartesian Centaur " reports that Beckett once, when asked about the meaning of Godot, mentioned " a veteran racing cyclist, bald, a ' stayer ,' recurrent placeman in town-to-town and national championships, Christian name elusive, surname Godeau, pronounced, of course, no differently from Godot.

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