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At this time the games tended to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the period 1900 – 1919 is commonly called the " Dead-ball era ".
A set of ontological distinctions related by a single conceptual metaphor was called an ontological metaphor by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, who claimed that such metaphors arising from experience were more basic than any properties or symbol-based comparisons.
Tekla Johnson has called these closed, hierarchical social stratification as castes.
According to a Greg Johnson biographical note on Booker, the song title " Gonzo " comes from a character in a movie called The Pusher, which in turn may have been inspired by a 1956 Evan Hunter novel of the same title.
These refugees were held in a detainment area called Camp Bulkeley until United States district court Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. declared the camp unconstitutional on June 8, 1993.
Johnson joined his flock in 1597, and in 1604 he and Ainsworth composed An Apology or Defence of such true Christians as are commonly but unjustly called Brownists.
Raya DunayevskayaThe Johnson – Forest tendency, sometimes called the Johnsonites, refers to a radical left tendency in the United States associated with Marxist theorists C. L. R.
In support of his claim, Johnson also called Gaelic the rude speech of a barbarous people, and said there were no manuscripts in it more than 100 years old.
Iver Johnson made an unusual model from 1940 to 1947, called the Trigger Cocking Double Action.
Rice acted as a temporary intermediary in the transfer of land between Humble Oil and Refining Company and NASA, for the creation of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center ( now called Johnson Space Center ) in 1962.
He is credited by many rock musicians as an important influence ; Eric Clapton has called Johnson " the most important blues singer that ever lived.
The first was in 1910 when a man called Jim Johnson accused him of cheating at dice and threw him off the boat on which they were traveling ( and which Thompson had recently won when gambling with its previous owner-a friend of Johnson's ).
These methods ( sometimes called Lin – Kernighan – Johnson ) build on the Lin – Kernighan method, adding ideas from tabu search and evolutionary computing.
Owing to the introduction of the clad quarter in 1965, it was occasionally called a " Johnson Sandwich " after Lyndon B. Johnson, the U. S. President at the time.
Some time between 9 and 10 a. m., John Kennedy called Pennsylvania governor David L. Lawrence, a Johnson backer, to request that Lawrence nominate Johnson for vice president if Johnson were to accept the role and then went to Johnson's suite to discuss a mutual ticket at 10: 15 a. m. John Kennedy then returned to his suite to announce the Kennedy-Johnson ticket to his closest supporters and Northern political bosses.
He called on the electorate to join him in a march to a " new America ", based on a liberal agenda that anticipated the programs of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
The characteristics of grasping manipulation and insincerity can lead to a person being labelled " a Uriah Heep " as Lyndon Johnson is called in Robert Caro's biography.
At 8 a. m. John Kennedy called Johnson to arrange a meeting.
Some time between 9 and 10 a. m., he called Pennsylvania governor David L. Lawrence, a Johnson backer, to request that Lawrence nominate Johnson for vice president if Johnson were to accept the role.

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It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.
Just a brief note of appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of `` people to people '' good will.
Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.
The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.
The program laid the foundation for NASA's current human spaceflight capability, and funded construction of its Johnson Space Center and Kennedy Space Center.
In 1862, Lincoln appointed Johnson military governor of occupied Tennessee, where he was effective in fighting and ending the rebellion ; he implemented Reconstruction policies in the state and transitioned for a time to a pro-emancipation policy.
The constitution was submitted for a public vote and Johnson campaigned for its adoption ; his support of the new work provided him with additional positive statewide exposure.
In 1835, Johnson made a bid for election to the " floater " seat for his district in the Tennessee House of Representatives ; he " demolished " the opposition in debate and won the election with almost a two to one margin.
In 1839, Johnson entered the race for re-election to his House seat, initially as a Whig ; when another Whig entry arose, to enhance his position in the campaign, he ran as a Democrat and was elected to his second, non-consecutive term in the Tennessee House.
In 1840 Johnson was appointed as a presidential elector for his state, giving him more statewide exposure.
In 1843, Johnson was the first Democrat to run for, and win, election as the U. S. representative from Tennessee's 1st congressional district, and joined a new Democratic majority in the House.
Johnson advocated " a free farm for the poor " bill that would give land to landless farmers.
In this term, he introduced for the first time his Homestead Bill, which sought to provide 160 acres for every poor family head " without money and without price "; Johnson did not rest until passage some years later.
Johnson, in the face of the national mania over new railroad construction, and in response to the need in his own district for additional mode of transportation, found himself moderating in his opposition to them.
In the campaign for election to his fourth term in 1849, Johnson concentrated on three issues: slavery, homesteads and judicial elections.
Though he was not enamored of the party's presidential nominee, Franklin Pierce, Johnson campaigned for him, but he failed to carry Tennessee.
When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.
The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.
Henry attacked Johnson for his voting record in denying pay increases to federal troops.
Johnson won the election by 2, 250 votes, some of which were Whig votes received in return for his promise to support Nathaniel Taylor for his prior seat in Congress.
Johnson succeeded in getting the bank appointments he wanted, in return for his endorsement of John Bell for one of the state's U. S. Senate seats.

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In December 1852 Johnson realized his dream of passage in the House of his Homestead Act, which even garnered the support of Horace Greeley.
As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.
Writers Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil suggested the idea of a character that the lads idolize even though he beats them up ; Judge based Todd on a teenaged bully who lived near him and terrified him as a kid.
In Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. Johnson, ( decided in 1915 by the federal appeals court for New York and several neighboring states ), the court held that a car owner could not recover for injuries from a defective wheel, when the automobile owner had a contract only with the automobile dealer and not with the manufacturer, even though there was " no question that the wheel was made of dead and ‘ dozy ‘ wood, quite insufficient for its purposes.
The duration of the disease varies greatly, but sporadic ( non-inherited ) CJD can be fatal within months or even weeks ( Johnson, 1998 ).
The FDA informed health care professionals that dangerous or even fatal skin reactions ( Stevens – Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis ), that can be caused by carbamazepine therapy, are significantly more common in patients with a particular human leukocyte antigen ( HLA ) allele, HLA-B * 1502.
In the 1870s in the United States, in the aftermath of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and his near-removal from office, it was speculated that the United States, too, would move from a presidential system to a semi-presidential or even parliamentary one, with the Speaker of the House of Representatives becoming the real center of government as a quasi-prime minister.
Nose tackle Charlie Johnson anchored the line, and even managed to record 3 interceptions.
even garnered some attention outside of literary criticism, having several pages devoted to it in a chapter on the American New Right in Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics by George Johnson ( 1983 ).
Voters increasingly viewed Goldwater as a right wing fringe candidate — his slogan " In your heart, you know he's right " was successfully parodied by the Johnson campaign into " In your guts, you know he's nuts ", or " In your heart, you know he might " ( as in push the nuclear button ), or even " In your heart, he's too far right " ( some cynics wore buttons saying " Even Johnson is better than Goldwater!
As Vice President, Humphrey was controversial for his complete and vocal loyalty to Johnson and the policies of the Johnson Administration, even as many of Humphrey's liberal admirers opposed Johnson with increasing fervor with respect to Johnson's policies during the war in Vietnam.
McCarthy, who was up for re-election in 1970, realized that he had only a slim chance of winning even re-nomination ( he had angered his party by opposing Johnson and Humphrey for the 1968 presidential nomination ) and declined to run.
In the 1920s, it was discovered that the current through an ideal resistor actually has statistical fluctuations, which depend on temperature, even when voltage and resistance are exactly constant ; this fluctuation, now known as Johnson – Nyquist noise, is due to the discrete nature of charge.
Johnson campaigned even harder this time around, while Stevenson's efforts were surprisingly poor.
The national Party's liberal leaders supported a compromise in which the white delegation and the MFDP would have an even division of the seats ; Johnson was concerned that, while the regular Democrats of Mississippi would probably vote for Goldwater anyway, if the Democratic Party rejected the regular Democrats, he would lose the Democratic Party political structure that he needed to win in the South.
This can even occur in people's names, for example Antonia Ax: son Johnson ( Ax: son for Axelson ).
A taped conversation of a meeting several weeks after passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was released in 2001, revealing that McNamara expressed doubts to President Johnson that the attack had even occurred.
Although Capehart thought he had enough votes to pass his amendment ( even going so far as to tell Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson on the morning of the vote, " this time I'm going to rub your nose in shit.
There is a report that Johnson even fought and KO'd Jim Jeffries ' brother Jack, and taunted him about it to force a fight, with no success.
Ironically, the colour bar remained in force even under Johnson.
The Hawks took a step back in the 2010 – 11 season, finishing with 44 wins, even though Horford and Johnson were named to the All-Star team.

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