And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

How Maxwell recounts his first coming to Camusfearna, his furnishing the empty house with beach-drift, the subtle changes in season over ten years, is a moving experience.

The car was fast — Rindt set pole position twice during the season — but Brabham and Rindt finished only three races between them, and ended the year with only ten points.

He also won at least 30 games in a season five times, with ten other seasons of 20 or more wins.

In season ten, for the first time in public Clark begins to formulate a bumbling / stuttering Kent with glasses akin to the Christoper Reeve / Brandon Routh portrayal of the character.

In the season ten finale of the series he fully adopts the Superman identity, when he takes action to save Earth from Darkseid, who was drawn to Earth by Clark's actions and sought to take the hero as a host.

The stars were paid $ 75, 000 per episode in season three, $ 85, 000 in season four, $ 100, 000 in season five, $ 125, 000 in season six, $ 750, 000 in seasons seven and eight, and $ 1 million in seasons nine and ten.

They started the season with a three-game sweep of the Cubs but eventually finished eighth among the National League's ten teams.

Because Livestrong Sporting Park was not ready for the beginning of the 2011 season, Sporting Kansas City played its first ten games on the road, only winning one game.

In the 1985 regular season the Royals topped the Western Division for the sixth time in ten years, led by Bret Saberhagen's Cy Young Award-winning performance.

Large, vigorous plants produce six to ten flower heads in one season, although some exceptional plants can produce up to forty flower heads on one plant.

The 1972 season saw improvements though: Hulme won the team's first Grand Prix for two-and-a-half years in South Africa and he and Peter Revson scored ten other podiums, the team finishing third in the constructors ' championship.

It did not take long for Smith to earn recognition in the major leagues, making what some consider his greatest fielding play only ten games into his rookie season.

" The King ", as he is nicknamed, is most well known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times ( Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat ), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races ( ten of them consecutively ) in the 1967 season alone.

Up to this point, in seven matches for the season, the young all-rounder had only scored 307 runs at 27. 90 and taken ten wickets at 64. 80.

The first season DVD was released on May 3, 2005, ten days prior to the broadcast of the final episode.

The Colts had won ten games in a row, including four shutouts, and finished the season with an NFL-best 13 – 1 record.

The Cowboys started the regular season slowly, winning only six of their first ten games.

The game then became a rematch of Super Bowl VII, also played in the Los Angeles area at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum ten years before, where the Dolphins completed their 17 – 0 perfect season at the Redskins ' expense by a score of 14 – 7.

Unfortunately, the Rangers ended up losing six of the final ten games and another turnaround season came up short.

Gretzky captured nine Hart Trophies as the most valuable player, ten Art Ross Trophies for most points in a season, five Lady Byng Trophies, five Lester B. Pearson Awards, and two Conn Smythe Trophies as playoff MVP.

* October 22 – Sigurd Rascher and the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra open their 1956 – 57 season with a concert including the world première of Carl Anton Wirth's Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra.

Cole Turner makes his first appearance in the third season ( 2000-1 ) première episode, " The Honeymoon's Over ".

This season was preceded, in February, by a performance of the play by the same company at Middle Temple Hall, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the play's première, at the same venue.

had its West End première in a limited engagement at the Duchess Theatre from 13 – 17 May, forming part of the 2009 Notes From New York season.

The 2010 – 2011 season opened with the world première of Daniel Catán's opera based on the drama film Il Postino ( 1994 ) with Domingo as the poet Pablo Neruda, Charles Castronovo in the title role and Grant Gershon conducting.

Neil Simon's play, Come Blow Your Horn, starring Michael Crawford, played in 1962, followed by a season of Martha Graham's dance company, including the world première of her ballet Circe.

It hosted the Ballets Russes for its first season, staging the world première of the Rite of Spring on Thursday May 29, 1913, thus becoming the celebrated location of one of the most famous of all classical music riots.

The modern performance history of La rondine in Europe includes the première of the third version at Teatro Regio di Torino ( 1994 ), as well as performances at La Scala ( 1994 ), Leeds Opera North ( 1994, 2001 ), Oper Bonn and Ludwigshaven State Opera House ( 1995 ), Teatro del Giglio in Lucca ( 1998 ), Teatro Filarmonico di Verona ( 2002 ), Kansallisooppera, Helsinki ( 2002, 2003, 2007 ), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London ( 2002, 2005 ), Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris ( 2005 ), Opéra de Monte-Carlo ( 2007 ), and La Fenice in Venice where it was the opening title of the 2008 season.

The ballet company was very influential in the early 1920s, staging five Paris seasons and touring continually ; the company also premiered Cole Porter ’ s only ballet ( Within the Quota ), during the same season ( in 1923 ) as the première of " la création du Monde ".

Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.

But no one complained when they wound up, regardless of season, in venison pies.

Many hours of spring cleaning will be saved, however, if you remove the main drain grate when you close the pool season in the fall.

The disadvantages to this method are that you may not have as great a choice of models readily available or you may have to wait a few days or, during the busy tourist season, when cars are in great demand, you might find it fairly difficult to get a car at all.

Occasionally, you may come across one or two bumblebees in the cold season, when you are turning over sods in your garden, but you have to be a really keen observer to see them at all.

The nest itself, the structure that in some cases housed about 2,000 individuals when the season was at its peak, is now rapidly destroyed by the scavenging larvae of certain beetles and moths.

The crowd at the twenty-first annual K. of C. Games, final indoor meet of the season, got a thrill a few minutes earlier when a slender, bespectacled woman broke the one-week-old world record in the half-mile run.

Last year, when he worked out at halfback all season, he didn't get into a single game.

Tailback James Saxton already has surpassed his rushing total for his brilliant sophomore season, when he netted 271 yards on 55 carries ; ;

It was the first time we've been ahead this season ( when John Richey kicked what proved to be the winning field goal ) ''.

The Pirates jumped off to an 11-3 start by May 1 last year, when the Redbirds as well as the Dodgers held them even over the season.

Mantle, the bull-necked blond switch-hitter, had one sensational triple-crown season, 1959, when he batted and also led the American League in home runs, 52, and rbi's, 130.

Jump off is tomorrow night when the Packs meet St. Louis in their season home opener.

In the line of operatic trades to cushion the budget, the Dallas Civic Opera will use San Francisco's new Leni Bauer-Ecsy production of `` Lucia Di Lammermoor '' this season, returning the favor next season when San Francisco uses the Dallas `` Don Giovanni '', designed by Franco Zeffirelli.

It is not simply giving a repetition of the program it gave during its New York engagement earlier this season, but has brought back many of the numbers that were on the bill when it paid us its first visit and won everybody's heart.

Frogs are much more vocal, especially during the breeding season when they use their voices to attract mates.

Gestation lasts between 90 and 110 days, producing one to five cubs ( most often two or three ) during the rainy season, when termites are active.

The plants grow and bloom during the cool season when most other plants are dormant or other annuals are in seed form waiting for warmer weather to germinate.

The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, " to open ," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to " open ," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις ( anoixis ) ( opening ) for spring.

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

After the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan, the Ark remained in the Tabernacle at Gilgal for a season before being removed to Shiloh until the time of Eli, between 300 and 400 years ( Jeremiah 7: 12 ), when it was carried into the field of battle, so as to secure, as they had hoped, victory to the Hebrews.

* In episode 2, season 4 of " How I Met Your Mother ", entitled " The Best Burger in New York ", Marshall's description of the taste of the best burger uses music that alludes to the 1984 film " Amadeus ", when Antonio Salieri describes the same music ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) with the same accuracy and passion with which Marshall speaks of the burger.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.