School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

I had had difficulties from the very first day.

From the very first he regarded himself as Mr. Hearst's disciple, defender, and afterward his prime minister, self-ordained.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

Our first necessity, at the very outset of war, is post-attack reconnaissance.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

The data for the first day indicate a meteor stream with a very high concentration of particles and may have led to the high estimates of micrometeorite flux.

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.

In their very first collages, Braque and Picasso draw or paint over and on the affixed paper or cloth, so that certain of the principal features of their subjects as depicted seem to thrust out into real, bas-relief space -- or to be about to do so -- while the rest of the subject remains imbedded in, or flat upon, the surface.

At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.

It cannot be said that our very first day in the Soviet Union turned out to be an ordinary one.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

It is obvious that the careful choice of photocathode which maximizes Af for a given input E ( in the case of the second stage, for the first phosphor screen emission ) is very important.

Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.

In the South, after the first year of the war, paper and ink were very poor.

Another school frowns on such a shortcut, and insists that after leaving the bin an old red wine should first stand on end for several days to allow the sediment to roll to the very bottom, after which the bottle may be gently eased to a tilted position on its side in the cradle.

From the lioness' point of view, this strange creature on the back of another creature, lashing out with its long thin paw, very likely appeared as something she could not at first cope with.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

Katya Roslev, who would be Katharine Ross so very soon now, rang up her first sale of the day and counted back the change.

On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.

Meanwhile, it was learned the State Highway Department is very near being ready to issue the first $30 million worth of highway reconstruction bonds.

-- those were His very first creative words -- He began the world with light -- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged into darkness.

One of the very best is only now published in this country, five years after its first publication in England.

In their very first speeches it was clear that Shakespeare, like a Nostradamus, had foreseen this moment.

On August 22, 1982, Glenn Brummer stole home in the bottom of the 12th inning of a tie game, thus accomplishing a walk-off straight steal of home, one of the very few in major league history.

Walker came very close to winning the Triple Crown that year, leading the league in home runs but finishing second to Tony Gwynn in batting average and third in RBI ( teammate Galarraga led the league.

Arminia Hannover is another very traditional soccer team in Hanover that has played in the first league for years and plays now in the Niedersachsen-West Liga ( Lower Saxony League West ).

During Hank's minor league experience, he was very homesick and faced constant racism, but his brother, Herbert Jr., told him not to give up the opportunity.

Selig had already announced plans to rename the team the Brewers, a name that had been used by past Milwaukee baseball teams ( most notably by a very successful minor league team that played there from 1902 to 1952 ).

Exline also belonged to an amateur softball league but the Coens changed it to bowling in the movie because " it's a very social sport where you can sit around and drink and smoke while engaging in inane conversation ," Ethan said in an interview.

At the very time of Leo's accession Louis XII of France, in alliance with Venice, was making a determined effort to regain the duchy of Milan, and Leo, after fruitless endeavours to maintain peace, joined the league of Mechlin, on 5 April 1513, with the emperor Maximilian I, Ferdinand II of Aragon, and Henry VIII of England.

Keegan took Newcastle to two consecutive runners-up finishes in the league in 1995 – 96 and 1996 – 97, coming very close to winning the title in the former season.

Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, John C. Frémont, reported after the gunfight, " Many of the very best law-abiding and peace-loving citizens Tombstone have no confidence in the willingness of the civil officers to pursue and bring to justice that element of out-lawry so largely disturbing the sense of security ... opinion is quite prevalent that the civil officers are quite largely in league with the leaders of this disturbing and dangerous element.

Although never recognized as a true major league, the quality of play was considered very high.

In Earl Strom's memoir Calling the Shots, Strom conveys both the heady sense of being courted by a rival league with money to burn — and also the depression that set in the next year when he began refereeing in the ABA, with lesser players performing in inadequate arenas, in front of very small crowds.

Fred Rutten, former Schalke 04 coach, took over as head coach and had a very successful first half of the 2009 – 10 season in which PSV didn't lose a single game in the national league, the national cup, and the Europa League.

Having won both the league and Cup Winners Cup in 1985, Everton came very close to winning a treble, but lost to Manchester United in the FA Cup final.

" We ascended a not very high mesa ( blue bench ) which was level and very stony, traveled about three quarters of a league including ascent and descent, crossed another small river ( Duchesne River ) which near here enters the San Cosme ( Strawberry River ), named it Santa Caterina de Sena, and camped on its banks " " Along these three rivers we have crossed today there is plenty of good land for crops to support three good settlements, with opportunities for irrigation, beautiful cottonwood groves, good pastures, with timber and firewood nearby.

Early in his major league career, Valenzuela had trouble communicating with his catchers because he spoke very little English.

The circuit was very short ( just 202 yards ) and the team never entered the league – only challenge matches were staged.

) Since it typically only travels to, far slower than the average major league fastball ( to ), it can be hit very hard if there is no movement.

It has had very high ranking in the school league tables, being in the top five for most rankings for primary schools in Peterborough.

The Junior models were very fine cars ; they were just not in the same quality league as the Seniors.

The club won the league again in 1913, but lost their first FA Cup final 1 – 0 to Aston Villa, in a very tough loss.

The year after, the team competed very well in the league and qualified for the promotion play-off but expectations were denied again, this time by CD Tenerife.

Steve Bull was instrumental in this very first stage of the club's revival, scoring 34 league goals and a total of 52 in all competitions.

Major re-organisation by this duo of the league and its finances took place in 1988, Lauder-Frost emphasising that " we are not just a social group, but a serious pressure group carrying out a very demanding role in the face of much opposition.