Ironically, the following two seasons also saw the Cubs get off to a fast start, as the team rallied to over 10 games above. 500 well into both seasons, only to again wear down and play poorly later on, and ultimately settling back to mediocrity.

Ironically, as noted above, the mineral gadolinite actually contains only traces of Gd.

Ironically, though, Guy is the only character who goes unharmed in the adventure.

" Ironically ," wrote theatre critic Lucy Komisar, " possibly his only true book ... about a successful author who is shown to be a fraud.

Ironically, Gearreald was blind and could not see the clock ; she had no idea only a few moments were left in the game.

Ironically, Allan Loughead himself had planned to bid for his own company, but had raised " only " $ 50, 000 ($), which he felt was too small a sum for a serious bid.

Ironically he was the only soldier involved in the Affair to serve in the First World War.

Ironically, O ' Sullivan's term became popular only after it was criticized by Whig opponents of the Polk administration.

Ironically it is only Steerpike, the power hungry, psychopathic and devious rebel, who shares Titus ' contempt for the rules and traditions of Gormenghast.

Ironically, the only remaining estate that was not removed for flower cultivation ( Keukenhof ) became world-famous for its flower displays.

Ironically, despite the developer-litigants ' claimed interest in allowing poor people to live in Easttown, they only built houses that sold at well over the average value in Pennsylvania.

( Ironically, the demand for rayon fabric for trendy clothing shot upward only a few years later.

Ironically, Geldof had previously refused to allow the video to be shown, due to time constraints, and had only relented when Bowie offered to drop the song " Five Years " from his set as a trade-off.

Ironically, Derrick May once described Detroit techno music as being a " complete mistake ... like George Clinton and Kraftwerk caught in an elevator, with only a sequencer to keep them company.

Ironically, but as testament to the pure political expediency of the purchases, the Princes of Liechtenstein did not permanently live in their new principality for over 200 years, moving only in 1938 into the Alpine territory.

Ironically again, the next one to die is Guy, the only one who has not had sex with Reg and who seems to have been infected with HIV when he was raped during his holiday in Lanzarote.

Ironically, Moorer has always been recognized as a former light heavyweight champion despite only ever holding the same organization's title at that weight.

Ironically, Jake Spoon decides not to go after all, being selfish and undependable and because he promises the town's only prostitute, Lorena Wood, known as Lorie, he'll take her to San Francisco.

Ironically, though most of the love-shy men disliked or even hated their parents, they visited them constantly, because they were the only people they could interact with and also to receive financial support despite also receiving heavy hazing.

Ironically, only the U. S. Marine Corps, whose commanders had stored and maintained their World War II surplus inventories of equipment and weapons, proved ready for deployment, though they still were understrength and in need of suitable landing craft to practice amphibious operations ( Johnson had transferred most of the remaining craft to the Navy and reserved them for use in training Army units ).< ref name = Shipmate2000 > As U. S. and South Korean forces lacked sufficient armor and artillery to repel the North Korean forces, Army and Marine Corps ground troops were instead committed to a series of costly rearguard actions as the enemy steadily progressed down the Korean peninsula, eventually encircling Pusan.

Ironically, he had applied only some months earlier, on February 8, 1937, for a leave of absence from the University in order to accept a position offered him at Stanford.

Ironically, Hewes was not only one of the few people in favor of a war against Britain but was one of the few Quakers in Congress.

Ironically: the same people who were, for decades, stigmatised as ultra-Croatian " linguistic nationalists " ( Stjepan Babić, Dalibor Brozović, Radoslav Katičić, Miro Kačić ) have been accused as pro-Serbian " political linguists " simply because they opposed these " language purges " that wanted to kick out numerous words of Church Slavonic origin ( which are common not only to Croatian and Serbian, but are also present in Polish, Russian, Czech and other Slavic languages ).

Ironically the Max Meldrum-led Australian Tonalism movement, which rejected modernist art and promoted a unique form of painting in accordance with Meldrum's theories of art, has since been recognized as a precursor to Modernist forms of art, including Minimalism, and art historian Bernard William Smith noted that Meldrum is perhaps the only Australian artist to develop and practice his own fully formulated theory of painting.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Ironically, Salieri's music was much more in the tradition of Gluck and Gassmann than of the Italians like Paisiello or Cimarosa.

Ironically, this highly irregular policy ( along with the subsequent fame of Frank Frazetta ) has led to the misconception that his strip was " ghosted " by other hands.

Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined the phrase that came to be applied to Lemaître's theory, referring to it as " this big bang idea " during a BBC Radio broadcast in March 1949.

Ironically, the great anti-imperialist rebel was now identified with the head of the British Empire, and her statue stood guard over the city she razed to the ground.

Ironically though, it was this lack of ports which brought the Dutch to trade at Banda instead of the clove islands of Ternate and Tidore.

Ironically, it was his work as a budding historian that destroyed his early career.

Ironically, Holliday, traded from Oakland to St. Louis in July, was in the opposing dugout watching the play.

Ironically, the rise of infantry in the early 16th century coincided with the " golden age " of heavy cavalry ; a French or Spanish army at the beginning of the century could have up to half its numbers made up of various kinds of light and heavy cavalry, whereas in earlier medieval and later 17th century armies the proportion of cavalry was seldom more than a quarter.

Ironically, it is also in the Reeve films that Clark Kent's persona has the greatest resemblance to Woody Allen, though his conscious model was Cary Grant's character in Bringing up Baby.

Ironically, the star tracker was an off-the-shelf component, expected to be highly reliable.

Ironically, one of the benefits to come out of the EISA standard was a final codification of the standard to which ISA slots and cards should be held ( in particular, clock speed was fixed at an industry standard of 8. 33 MHz ).

Ironically, the first new film released in Soviet Russia did not exactly fit this mold: this was Father Sergius, a religious film completed during the last weeks of the Russian Empire but not yet exhibited.

Ironically, the loss of his priesthood had allowed him to pursue a military career, as the high priest of Jupiter was not permitted to touch a horse, sleep three nights outside his own bed or one night outside Rome, or look upon an army.

Ironically, the film was released in the final few weeks of Nazi Germany's existence, when most of the country's cinemas were already destroyed.

Ironically, one aspect of American society that the Americo-Liberians recreated was a cultural and racial caste system — however, in this case with themselves at the top instead of the bottom.

Ironically, Batman ultimately learns that the entire debacle was the fault of Luthor alone as he attempted to take control of Gotham by forging deeds for the land in his name, which results in Bruce Wayne severing all commercial ties between the U. S. government and his company, Wayne Enterprises, in protest of Luthor's election as President.

Ironically, Bradman was bowled shortly thereafter at a memorial match by Grimmett, who produced a perfectly pitched stock ball that turned just enough to remove Bradman's off bail.

Ironically, Mazda's version was unsuccessful, while the Ford ( available from the start as a 4-door or 2-door model ) instantly became the best selling sport-utility vehicle in the United States and kept that title for over a decade.

Ironically, it was at this time that the Hosokawa lords were also the patrons of Musashi's chief rival, Sasaki Kojirō.

Ironically it was preparations for this concert, rather than historical interest, that brought about the first detailed post-Cold War survey of the area with a view to determining what, if anything, was left of Hitler's bunker and any other underground installations.

Ironically, in the 1912 campaign, McDonald was Woodrow Wilson's bodyguard.