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In his first two first-class seasons Weekes was only a moderate success with the bat, averaging 16. 62 by the end of the 1945 / 46 season but began to find form in 1946 / 47, when, batting at number four, his maiden first-class century, 126 against British Guiana at Bourda, Georgetown, and averaged 67. 57 for the season.
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After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.
A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.
The first two or three days they went home early.
The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.
If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.
The first two types of change occur within the inward and immanent structure of the society.
After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.
We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.
For this reason, then I want to describe, first, two examples of the puritanical attacks: Stephen Gosson's The School Of Abuse, 1579, and his later Playes Confuted, published in 1582.
But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.
the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.
It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.
Howard Mitchell and the National Symphony perform in the first two releases, designed for grades one and two.
For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.
But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.
They went shopping in the neighborhood, and bought two loaves of bread with the ration coupons they had been given in Blois, and some cheese, and a dozen eggs, and a bag of oranges from a peddler in the Place Redoute -- the first oranges they had seen since they landed.
At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.
The men in the boats had started yelling happily at first sight of the officer, two of them calling him Billy.
The credit provdied by the first two services in the system outlined above is primarily for general agricultural purposes.
Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.
Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.
The first one or two roof boards ( marked `` E '' in fig. 6 ) are slipped into place across the roof beams, from outside the shelter.
He is interested in public opinion for two reasons: first, because it is important in itself, and, second, because he knows that the American public cares about a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.
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* He became the first man to score seven centuries in eight first-class innings, the first being the record 375 against England and the last being the record 501 not out against Durham.
Hurst played one first-class cricket match for Essex, against Lancashire at Aigburth in 1962, although it was not a successful outing: he made 0 not out in the first innings, and was bowled by Colin Hilton, again for 0, in the second.
At this station Marlow meets the Company's chief accountant, who's dressed in " unexpected elegance "-" Everything else in the station was in a muddle "-Marlow first hears of a Mr. Kurtz from the chief accountant, who explains that Kurtz is a first-class agent, and later adds: "' He will be a somebody in the Administration before long.
Glamorgan Cricket Club, at the time not a first-class county, played their first match at Cardiff Arms Park in June 1869, against Monmouthshire Cricket Club.
The first first-class cricket match actually to be held on the ground was between West of England and East of England, on 20 June 1910.
He is unusual amongst the majority of current Test players in that he has played in more Test matches than other first-class games ( 116 Tests and 99 other first class matches as of 2007 ). He has been signed by Gloucestershire in 2011 to play in T20 matches.
The following year, the first full-scale one-day competition between first-class teams was played, the knock-out Gillette Cup, won by Sussex.
It was also one of the first programming languages to support first-class continuations.
In all first-class matches in 1871, a total of 17 centuries were scored and Grace accounted for 10 of them, including the first century in a first-class match at Trent Bridge.
His aggregate for the season was 2, 739 and this was the first time that anyone had scored 2, 000 first-class runs in a season ; Harry Jupp was next best with 1, 068.
Grace became the first batsman to score a century before lunch in a first-class match when he made 134 for Gentlemen of the South versus Players of the South at The Oval in 1873.
His innings of 344 was the first triple century scored in first-class cricket and broke the record for the highest individual score in all classes of cricket, previously held by William Ward who made 278 in 1820.
In the infobox, the " traditional " first-class figures from Wisden 1916 ( as reproduced by Rae, pp. 495 – 496 ), are given first and the " amended " figures from CricketArchive follow in parentheses.
* July 4 – Ruth Lawrence, 13, achieves a first in mathematics at Oxford University, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
In 1935, he received first-class honours for his B. A in history, and was ranked in first place among University of Oxford students graduating in History in 1935.
Returning to Australia, Taylor made 1, 403 first-class runs at 70. 15 during the 1989 – 90 season, and ended 1989 with 1, 219 Test runs, thus becoming the first player to better one thousand Test runs in his debut calendar year, something only matched once by England opener Alastair Cook over 15 years later.
Bradman completed the season with 1, 690 first-class runs, averaging 93. 88, and his first multiple century in a Sheffield Shield match, 340 not out against Victoria, set a new ground record for the SCG.
However, Bradman began the tour with 236 at Worcester and went on to score 1, 000 first-class runs by the end of May, the fifth player ( and first Australian ) to achieve this rare feat.
In 1889, what might be considered the first modern-style school, a large 2-story building, was erected at a cost of $ 13, 000 By 1909, Keytesville school was rated a first-class school by the state of Missouri.
Within two days of Year Zero going to air, 40 sacks of post arrived at ATV ... in Birmingham-26, 000 first-class letters in the first post alone.
By the first decades of the 21st century the orchestra was once again regarded by critics as of first-class status.
After two first-class matches against Sri Lankan domestic teams over the winter of 1977-78, in which he scored 76 runs at 38. 00 in first-class and a score of 22 in the only one day fixture, Gower topped 1, 000 runs in a season for the first time in his career, scoring 1098 runs at 37. 86 including two hundreds, five fifties and a call up to the national team.
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