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The way MacArthur said his line -- if you had the recorded transcript of a professional linguist -- would probably have gone like this: Af Primary stresses on emeralds and wish ; ;
It is a striking fact that Ammianus, though a professional soldier, gives excellent pictures of social and economic problems, and in his attitude to the non-Roman peoples of the empire he is far more broad-minded than writers like Livy and Tacitus ; his digressions on the various countries he had visited are particularly interesting.
During this time he discovered comic strips like Pogo, Krazy Kat, and Charles Schulz ' Peanuts which subsequently inspired and influenced his desire to become a professional cartoonist.
Beatty was an intelligent and able leader, but all his social and sporting obligations, coupled with his high-strung temperament, prevented him from becoming a coldly calculating professional like Jellicoe – or his adversary, Hipper.
Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.
They had no professional lawyers, but many of their farmer-warriors, like Njal, the truth-teller, were learned in folk custom and in its intricate judicial procedure.
Hitler's British guests were a mélange of aristocratic Germanophiles such as Lord Londonderry, professional pacifists such as George Lansbury and Lord Allen, retired politicians, ex-generals, fascists such as Admiral Barry Domvile and Sir Oswald Mosley, journalists such as Lord Lothian and G. Ward Price, academics such as the historian Philip Conwell-Evans, and various businessmen like the newspaper magnate Lord Rothermere and the merchant banker Lord Mount Temple.
Deciding that he would like to become a professional teacher, Mao enrolled at a teacher training college, the Fourth Normal School of Changsha, which had high standards yet low fees and cheap accommodation.
What was so nice was that even though he was much older, he just talked to me like a fellow professional.
Most professional historians ( defined as paying members of organizations devoted to the propagation of history in higher education, like the American Historical Association ) now refer to the historical periods commonly known as the Renaissance and the Reformation as " the Early Modern Period ".
Quake III Arenas multiplayer-focused development led to it developing a large community of competitive players and like its predecessors it was used extensively in professional electronic sports tournaments.
Many players from OJC have played for professional football clubs, like FC Den Bosch, RKC Waalwijk, Willem II, etc.
He sang like a professional criminal ... is voice could jar a corpse, always leave you muttering to yourself something like, ' Man, I don't believe it '.
Therefore, like his father and his brothers, Grace chose a professional career in medicine, though because of his cricketing commitments he did not complete his qualification as a doctor until 1879 when he was 31 years old.
Vendors of software development tools aimed their products at professional developers, and the price for these basic tools plus ancillary tools like profilers ran into the hundreds of dollars.
Since I do not have the desire to waste my energy in a battle like this, I only use professional actors occasionally ".
The choreography is lively and the actors and actresses do not look like professional dancers, which makes the music and dance more natural.
There were informational tools, such as books ( often technical in nature ), professional journals, courses, classes, and the like.
Unlike many civil law countries which have some courts on which panels of judges with nearly equal status composed of both legally trained professional judges and lay judges who lack legal training and are not career judges, the United States legal system ( like most Anglo-American legal systems ) makes a clear distinction between professional judges and laymen involved in deciding case who are jurors who are part of a jury.
Some Eastern European athletes have been successful enough to be scouted into professional sumo in Japan, much like their Japanese amateur counterparts.
The contemporary typefaces used by computers, from simple word processing programs like Microsoft Word or Apple Pages to professional designers ' software packages like Adobe InDesign, owe a considerable debt to the past and to a small number of professional typeface designers today ( Zapf 2007 ; Mediavilla 2006 ; Henning 2002 ).

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Memphis stinkpotters like McKellar Lake, inside the city limits, and sailors look for autumn winds at Arkabutla Lake where fall racing is now in progress.
* Racing: track racing, criterium, roller racing and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour of California, Giro d ' Italia, the Tour de France, the Vuelta a España, the Volta a Portugal, among others.
He set world records in power boat racing, and raised more than $ 1. 5 million for charities like the United States Olympic Team, Cystic Fibrosis and Juvenile Diabetes Foundations and the Statue of Liberty Restoration Fund through his race team.
In 1978, 101 years after catamarans like Amaryllis were banned from any and all forms of yacht racing history was to prove them right.
* about 35 ° for modern racing yachts which have been optimized for upwind performance ( like America's Cup yachts )
Here are just a few examples: In a lightweight racing dinghy like a Thistle, the hull should be kept level, on its designed water line for best performance in all conditions.
There are several classes of stock car racing, each with slightly different rules, but the key intention of cars that look like production cars, but with near-identical specifications underneath, remains true.
Through the balance of the 1970s until 1992, the factory stock sheetmetal over a racing frame meant the cars looked very much like their street version counterparts.
Galgos excel at performance activities like lure coursing and racing.
Steed's signature cars were vintage 1926 – 1928 Bentley racing or town cars, including Blower Bentleys and Bentley Speed Sixes ( although, uniquely, in " The Thirteenth Hole " he drives a Vauxhall 30 / 98 ), while Peel drove a sporty Lotus Elan convertible which, like her clothes, emphasized her independence and vitality.
Yacht races may be over a simple course of only a few miles, as in the harbour racing of the International One Design ; long-distance, open-ocean races, like the Bermuda Race ; or epic trans-global contests such as the Global Challenge, Volvo Ocean Race, Clipper Round the World Race and Mini Transat 6. 50.
" In her review for The New York Times, Caryn James claimed that the film had " at least four endings ," and " by the time the last ending of this two-and-a-quarter-hour film comes along, the effect is like getting off a demon roller coaster that has kept racing several laps after you were ready to get off.
Longer races usually involve complex pit strategy and regular driver changes — sports car racing is seen more as a team sport than a gladiatorial individual sport, and team managers like John Wyer, Tom Walkinshaw, driver-turned-constructor Henri Pescarolo, Peter Sauber and Reinhold Joest have become almost as famous as many of their drivers.
In the 1950s, sports car racing was regarded as almost as important as Grand Prix competition, with major marques like Ferrari, Maserati, Jaguar and Aston Martin investing much effort in their works programmes and supplying cars to customers ; sports racers lost their close relationship to road-going sports cars in the 1950s and the major races were contested by dedicated competition cars such as the Jaguar C and D types, the Mercedes 300SLR, Maserati 300S, Aston Martin DBR1 and assorted Ferraris including the first Testa Rossas.
This led to a long and thriving tradition of road racing, including events like Sicily's Targa Florio ( from 1906 ) and Giro di Sicilia ( Tour of Sicily, 1914 ), which went right round the island, both of which continued on and off until after World War II.
Texaco has also has also been involved in open wheel racing, sponsoring the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston along with sponsoring drivers like Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti and his son Michael.
The numerous activities range from extreme sports like mountain biking, BMX, motocross, windsurfing, snowboarding, skateboarding, kayaking, wakeboarding, cliff-diving, surfing, skating, freestyle motocross, rally, Formula 1 racing, and breakdancing to art shows, music, and video games.
The risks involved in motor racing in the early-1960s were acknowledged and understood, and the general view was that like bullfighting, danger was an inherent part of the sport that you had to accept if you wished to participate.
Much like today, this obsession with sailing close to the wind with speed and efficiency fueled the racing community.
High-spec racing vehicles are generally still available or sold only as kits, and companies like ThunderTiger, Losi, HPI and Tamiya sell kit and RTR versions with the benefits of a kit version being in upgraded parts or lower costs, respectively.
With his team having gained enough experience with 3D graphics technology, he then went on to develop the acclaimed racing simulator, Sega Rally, which was influential in the racing space, inspiring future racing game franchises like Colin McRae Rally ( another rally simulator ) and the rally segments of the Gran Turismo ( series ).

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