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It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.
Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.
This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;
Among the outstanding members of the Hearst cabinet whom he successfully opposed for a time were the great Arthur Brisbane, Bradford Merrill, S.S. Carvalho, and Colonel Van Hamm.
He claimed in his attacks that Woodruff, with scurrilous underhandedness, had deliberately written an ambiguous bid that had so confused the honest members of the legislature that they had awarded him the contract without knowing what they were doing.
I never found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, harbor official thoughts.
There were no `` casualties '', but the `` guerrillas '' admitted to being `` a little tired '' when the leaders called a halt at 9 A.M. to enable out-of-town members to catch a plane.
And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and Von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War 1, and of Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War 2.
many of their gifted members were prominent in the Vatican as physicians, musicians, bankers.
Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.
In the same period, 431 presentations by members of the staff were made to local, national, and international medical groups.
For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.
Teen Hunter Clubs were initially sponsored by affiliated members of the Allied Merchandising Corporation.
Interviews with members of the Brandywine population were attempted in order to discover the ranking of the various families in the population.
Also, although only a few of the students were intimately acquainted with each other in the beginning, most reported that when the semester ended their dearest and closest campus friendships were with members of that class.
The first eight of these eighteen statements, which received at least one-half of the votes, were duplicated to form an analysis checklist for the particular manager, and when this particular manager roleplayed in other situations, the members checked any items that appeared.
It was compiled as a control sample to determine if the opinions and practices of companies on the lists submitted by the members of the Aerospace Industries Association were materially different from those of other small firms selling to defense programs.
The fact that the Aerospace Industries Association members whose lists were used did not comprise all firms engaged in defense programs.
Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work.
Not least among the members of the patent bar who echoed this powerful indictment were those who had participated in the Selden suit.
Noting the complaints of inventors and members of the patent bar, he admitted that some of the strictures `` were fairly well founded '', but he added that under existing rules the courts could not consolidate testimony in a group of suits involving separate infringements of the same patent.
In a sample of new members of Pittsburgh churches, almost 60 per cent were recruited by initial `` contacts with friendly members ''.

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The nickname was first used for a baseball team by the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were members of the pioneering National Association of Base Ball Players.
According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.
He is remembered for his handling of the Black Sox scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests.
The members of the team wore Mr. Kroc's initials, " RAK " on their baseball jerseys left sleeves during the season, and also during the seasons of 1985 and ' 86.
Statistical study, however, is only a small component of SABR members ' research, which also focuses on diverse issues including ballparks, the Negro Leagues, rules changes, and the desegregation of baseball as a mirror of American culture.
At first, the Hall of Fame planned a " separate but equal " display, which would be similar to the Ford C. Frick Award for baseball commentators, in that this plan meant that the Negro league honorees would not be considered members of the Hall of Fame.
Recorded instances of baseball played outside North America came in 1874, when a party comprising members of the Boston and Philadelphia clubs toured England both playing cricket and demonstrating baseball.
The Northeast Conference has a total of twelve members in 23 championship sports: baseball, men ’ s and women ’ s basketball, women ’ s bowling, men ’ s and women ’ s cross country, field hockey, football, men ’ s and women ’ s golf, men ’ s and women ’ s indoor track & field, women ’ s lacrosse, men ’ s and women ’ s outdoor track & field, men ’ s and women ’ s soccer, softball, women ’ s swimming, men ’ s and women ’ s tennis, and women ’ s volleyball.
The duo became famous for that routine, in which Abbott enumerated the names of a mythical baseball team, whose members have nicknames of " Who " who plays first base, " What " on second base and " I don't know " on third, etc.
The Diamond State Base Ball Club is a non-profit amateur organization created for the purposes of providing physical fitness to its members, educating the public on the history of baseball and local history, and serving as a point of public pride.
On September 11, 1921, members of the disgraced Chicago Black Sox baseball team played with the Colchester team in a game against nearby Macomb.
Beginning as a lawn tennis and baseball club, it turned to polo, the hunt, and golf as members built large summer estates in the area.
The district's sports teams, the Titans, are members of the Minnesota River Conference, and participate in baseball, softball, basketball, cross-country, hockey, tennis, track, football, cheerleading, wrestling, golf, and volleyball.
However once professional baseball left Dawson Springs ; Riverside Park, while still hosting many local teams, among them members of the Kentucky-Illinois-Tennessee League ( the Kitty League ), continued to provide baseball for western Kentucky.
A panel of 100 baseball people, many of them members of the Baseball Hall of Fame and winners of major baseball awards, were polled to arrive at the list.
During and after the 1917 Los Angeles campaign, the Sundays visited with Hollywood stars, and members of Sunday's organization played a charity baseball game against a team of show business personalities that included Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were banned for life from baseball for intentionally losing games, which allowed the Cincinnati Reds to win the World Series.
* The History Channel's Pawn Stars had bought a baseball that was signed form 2 members of the scandal worth $ 2, 000 for $ 900.
2007 De Anza rape investigation was a police inquiry into allegations of sexual assault of a 17-year-old student arising from an off-campus party on March 4, 2007 by eight members of the 2007 De Anza College baseball team.
Most are members of the umbrella organization known as Minor League Baseball ( MiLB ), which operates under the Commissioner of Baseball within the scope of organized baseball.
In, the peak of the post-World War II minor league baseball boom, 438 teams in 59 leagues were members of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues.
* Bob Davids Award: for exceptional SABR members who have made contributions to SABR and baseball that reflect ingenuity, integrity, and self-sacrifice.

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