To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

Alloy steels and regular steels had different sales departments at Smith & MacIsaacs, where John and Bobbie both worked.

In 1937, Wilson and Smith could count 40 alcoholic men they had helped to get sober, and two years later they counted 100 members, including one woman.

Eventually these were restored to the prophet Joseph Smith and various others in a series of divine conferrals and ordinations by angelic men who had held this authority during their lifetimes ( see this partial list of restoration events ).

In the letter to Wanley, Hickes responds to an apparent charge against Smith, made by Wanley, that Smith had failed to mention the Beowulf script when cataloguing Cotton MS. Vitellius A. XV.

" It has been theorised that Smith failed to mention the Beowulf manuscript because of his reliance on previous catalogues or because either he had no idea how to describe it or because it was temporarily out of the codex.

At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

On learning of the commission, William Burn sought an interview with the Prince, apparently to complain that Smith had plagiarised his work in the past.

While in Fort Worth, Wills added the " rowdy city blues " of Bessie Smith and Emmett Miller to a repertoire of mainly waltzes and breakdowns he had learned from his father, and patterned his vocal style after that of Miller and other performers such as Al Bernard.

" ( Wills is quoted as saying, " I rode horeseback from the place between the rivers to Childress to see Bessie Smith ... She was about the greatest thing I had ever heard.

Adam Smith illustrates this view, saying that a smuggler would be an excellent citizen, "... had not the laws of his country made that a crime which nature never meant to be so.

Initial converts were drawn to the church in part because of the newly published Book of Mormon, a self-described chronicle of indigenous American prophets that Smith said he had translated from golden plates.

To prevent war, Joseph Smith had predicted that the church would go to the West and be established in the tops of Rocky Mountains.

Joseph Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Smith said he had been in contact with an angel Moroni, who showed him the plates ' location and had been grooming him for a role as a religious leader.

While Smith was always an artist who worked in several very different media, it is possible to identify three distinct periods in which one form of art had precedence over the others.

Also, in 2006, Tampa Bay QB Chris Simms lost his spleen on a hit, and in 2009 Carolina CB Dante Wesley laid into PR Clifton Smith before he had caught the ball, knocking Smith out and getting Wesley ejected.

Government, as explained by Adam Smith, had only three functions: protection against foreign invaders, protection of citizens from wrongs committed against them by other citizens, and building and maintaining public institutions and public works that the private sector could not profitably provide.

Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.

For years, Cordwainer Smith had a pocket notebook which he had filled with ideas about The Instrumentality and additional stories in the series.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

Smith reviews his 46½ year career at Burroughs Adding Machine Company ( later Burroughs Corporation ).

Both columnist Liz Smith and film critic Rex Reed have mounted vigorous campaigns to gather support for an honorary Academy Award for Day to herald her film career and her status as the top female box-office star of all time.

Smith is most known for his View Askewniverse films, the flagship film being Clerks, which focused on a pair of bored, twenty-something convenience store clerks in New Jersey circa 1994 ; Linklater's Slacker similarly explored young adult characters who were more interested in philosophizing than settling with a long-term career and family ; Solondz ' Welcome to the Dollhouse touched upon themes of school bullying, school violence, teen drug use, peer pressure and broken or dysfunctional families, mostly set in a junior high school environment during the early to mid-1990s.

Maynard Smith then took a change of career, entering University College London ( UCL ) to study fruit fly genetics under Haldane.

His television career began in the early 1980s when he portrayed Stephen Smith in the NBC miniseries Kennedy.

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

Nicknamed " The Wizard " for his defensive brilliance, Smith set major league records for career assists ( 8, 375 ) and double plays ( 1, 590 ) by a shortstop ( the latter since broken by Omar Vizquel ), as well as the National League ( NL ) record with 2, 511 career games at the position ; Smith won the NL Gold Glove Award for play at shortstop for 13 consecutive seasons ( 1980 – 1992 ).

Despite a rotator cuff injury during the 1985 season, Smith posted career highs in multiple offensive categories in 1987.

While " The Wizard of Oz " nickname was an allusion to the 1939 motion picture of the same name, Smith also came to be known as simply " The Wizard " during his playing career, as Smith's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque would later attest.

While the Cardinals celebrated their 100th anniversary in 1992, Smith marked milestones of his own, stealing his 500th career base on April 26, then notching a triple on May 26 in front of the home crowd for his 2, 000th hit.

Smith became a free agent for the first time in his career on November 2, 1992, only to sign a new contract with the Cardinals on December 6.

On September 2 Smith tied a career high by scoring four runs, one of which was a home run, and another on a close play at home plate in the bottom of the 10th inning against division leader Houston.

When the Cardinals were trailing by ten runs during Game 7 on October 17, Smith flied out to right field while pinch-hitting in the sixth inning, marking the end of his playing career.

Smith finished his career with distinctions ranging from the accumulation of more than 27. 5 million votes in All-Star balloting, to holding the record for the most MLB at-bats without hitting a grand slam.

At the ceremony Weber told Smith, " You spent half of your career up in the air.

In the 2008 World Final, held at Ipswich, Andy Smith raced to victory becoming the 2008 BriSCA F1 Stock Car World Champion for the second time in his career, taking the crown from brother Stuart Smith Jnr.

Pro Bowl running back Emmitt Smith won his fourth league rushing crown in his career with 1, 773 yards, and broke a league single-season record with 25 rushing touchdowns.

Smith was also a reliable receiver out of the backfield, recording a career high 62 receptions for 375 yards.

With his 199th career sack, broke Reggie White's all-time NFL mark ( Smith finished the season with 200 career sacks ).