They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

More than the fans of Pagnol's old films and of their heroic star, the great Raimu, were looking askance at the project.

Snow or no, the fans were present in force at the Metropolitan Opera last night for a performance of the Ponchielli work.

And the hours were six-thirty in the morning until eleven at night on Saturdays and during sales, and there were no chairs and you couldn't smoke and the cooling was overhead fans and there was no porter or janitor.

* 1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60, 000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York, New York, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.

* 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

News of the signings by the Boston and Philadelphia players leaked to the press before the season ended, and all of them suffered verbal abuse and physical threats from the kranks, as baseball fans were called at the time, in Beantown and the City of Brotherly Love.

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The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

For the 2005 tour to New Zealand the Lions management commissioned a song, " The Power of Four ", although it met with little support amongst Lions fans at the matches and was not used on the 2009 Tour.

Since its introduction at games by the " Roar from 34 ", led by Wild Bill Hagy and others, in the late 1970s, it has been a tradition at Orioles games for fans to yell out the " Oh " in the line " Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave " in " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

" bellowed from the nearly 30, 000 Ravens fans that attended the November 21, 2010 away game at the Carolina Panthers ' Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Because they are excited, these fans hit the balloon at different times and in different directions with the motions being completely random.

In 1996, the year after the film was released, the annual three-day " Braveheart Conference " at Stirling Castle attracted fans of Braveheart, increasing the conference's attendance to 167, 000 from 66, 000 in the previous year.

While an appeal of his suspension was pending, Rogers appeared at the 2005 All-Star Game in Detroit, where fans loudly booed him.

The paperback version of the book adds a chapter about the reaction of fans at book signings.

Although the " self-important rhetoric and whines of persecution " on the part of cyberpunk fans were irritating at worst and humorous at best, Brin declares that the " rebels did shake things up.

The move surprised and upset Buckeyes fans who hoped he would resume his successful run at the school after the war.

Attendance at Browns games fell in later years as fans lost interest in lopsided victories.

Brewers-Cubs games are consistent sellouts or near-sellouts, as fans of both teams take advantage of the relative proximity of Miller Park and Wrigley Field.

Due to the close proximity of the ball park, many Cub fans make the drive to Miller Park which coined the nickname " Wrigley North ".

Cardinals-Cubs games see numerous visiting fans in either St. Louis ' Busch Stadium or Chicago's Wrigley Field.

Called " The basket ," by players and fans alike, the rules of the field state that any ball landing within the netting is ruled a home run, making the distance to hit a home run in Wrigley Field actually shorter than the location of the outfield wall.

This figure includes the 40, 818 fans from the Winter Classic at Wrigley Field.

On June 16, 1993, the 100th anniversary of Cracker Jack was celebrated with a party at Wrigley Field that included distributing the candy-coated popcorn and peanut treat, that was introduced at the Chicago World Fair in 1893, free of charge to all of the fans attending the Cubs ' game against Florida.

They played the Hammond Pros, twice in Chicago at Cubs Park, which is now called Wrigley Field, in front of crowds of 10, 000 fans.

Cubs fans showed their appreciation for him by giving him a standing ovation when the Cleveland Indians played at Wrigley Field on June 19, 2009.

Many fans associated the Bartman incident with the Curse of the Billy Goat, allegedly laid on the Cubs during the 1945 World Series after Billy Sianis and his pet goat were ejected from Wrigley Field.

In the years following the incident, the seat Bartman sat in – Section 4, Row 8, Seat 113 – became a tourist attraction at Wrigley Field, with fans taking pictures of each other sitting in it.

Kalas had sung " Take Me Out To The Ball Game " on several occasions during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field in Chicago on several occasions in tribute to Harry Caray, the late voice of the Chicago Cubs, who had led fans in that song at most home games.

The curse of the Billy Goat was supposedly placed on the Chicago Cubs in 1945 when Billy Goat Tavern owner Billy Sianis was asked to leave a World Series game against the Detroit Tigers at the Cubs ' home ground of Wrigley Field because his pet goat's odor was bothering other fans.

On February 5, 2012, a group of 5 Chicago Cubs fans calling themselves Crack the Curse set-out on foot from Mesa, AZ to Wrigley Field.

But it was that home run call that stuck in fans ' memories, and that phrase now vertically adorns the screens on the foul poles at Wrigley Field.

Elia is often remembered for a profanity-laced tirade directed at the fans at Wrigley Field on April 29, 1983.

These blown saves earned him the ire of Cubs fans, who made a habit of booing him loudly at Wrigley Field when he came on in relief.

Consequently, the classic ballparks typically had little space for automobiles, as it was expected that most fans would take mass transit to the games, a situation that still prevails at Chicago's Wrigley Field, for example.

Until the 1970s, when the aging sign was taken down, Cubs fans at Wrigley Field had to endure this not-so-subtle reminder of the " called shot ".

During a time when the Cubs were especially moribund, Sauer provided some joy for the team's fans with his power hitting, earning him the nickname " The Mayor of Wrigley Field ".

In addition, Reuschel pitched in a memorable game for Cub fans on July 28, 1977, when making a rare relief appearance on two days rest, he entered the 13th inning of a 15-15 tie between the Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds at Wrigley Field.

Cardinals-Cubs games see numerous visiting fans in either St. Louis ' Busch Stadium or Chicago's Wrigley Field.

A somber showing of acknowledgment between the two teams happened in when Cubs catcher Joe Girardi addressed the fans at Wrigley Field in a choked up way that the game between the two teams had been cancelled and that the fans should pray for the St. Louis Cardinals family.

Following a slow start in which the Cubs failed to win their first 10 home games, Trebelhorn promised reporters that if the Cubs lost the next game, he'd answer questions from fans in front of the firehouse across Waveland Avenue from Wrigley Field.