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When that failed, he enlisted Branch Rickey's aid in the formation of a third major league, the Continental, with New York as the key franchise.
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When and failed
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When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.
When the coach failed and injured Winterbottom, he sued Wright.
When machine translation ( also known as mechanical translation ) failed to yield accurate translations right away, automated processing of human languages was recognized as far more complex than had originally been assumed.
When the business failed, his father would quietly turn the huge stacks of useless stationery and pencils over to his children, requiring them to use up all the material as fast as possible.
When Domitian found out, he allegedly murdered Paris in the street and promptly divorced his wife, with Suetonius further adding that once Domitia was exiled, Domitian took Julia as his mistress, who later died during a failed abortion.
When this plan failed, privateering became one of the major goals within the WIC.
When he failed in his attempts to meet General Yahya Khan, Masud too resigned from his position as Commander of Eastern Air Command, and took retirement from Air Force.
When Nature failed to do this spontaneously, contact with a conductor of animal magnetism was a necessary and sufficient remedy.
When Godzilla 1985 failed at the box office, it was the last Godzilla film produced by Toho to receive any major release in North American theaters until Godzilla 2000 fifteen years later.
When they failed, several went into hiding and established close ties with Cuba.
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When and enlisted
When Bixby was eight, his father enlisted in the U. S. Navy during World War II and traveled to the South Pacific.
When Sousa reached the age of 13, his father, a trombonist in the Marine Band, enlisted his son in the United States Marine Corps as an apprentice to keep him from joining a circus band.
When the French invasion of Spain took place in 1808 he enlisted at Zaragoza.
When the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, he left college to enlist in the U. S. Army Air Corps ; however, the Army did not call him up, and in March 1942 he enlisted as a United States Navy aviation cadet.
When the United States Colored Troops were founded, many men from the colony enlisted.
When many of these players enlisted or were drafted in the Army for WWI, they formed a team within their unit.
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When Daniel Amos heard it they enlisted Franco to play the pedal steel and Mike and Ed to add the CB radio voices on the recording.
When he first learned of that quarrel, he wrote, " My heart was enlisted and I thought only of joining the colors.
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When America officially entered the War, the American Field Service ambulance corp was integrated into the U. S. Army Ambulance Corps and Harry enlisted.
When he arrived at Annapolis on July 6, 1976, he was honorably discharged as a corporal from the Marines, and enlisted into the navy as a midshipman.
When, in 1917, the United States declared war on Germany, Rickenbacker had enlisted in the United States Army and was soon training in France with some of the first American troops.
When World War I began, Coles enlisted as a private, fighting at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in France, and was wounded on three occasions before being commissioned as a lieutenant.
When Spinozza became unavailable due to other session commitments, Hugh McCracken was enlisted to take his place.
When he was 20, he was enlisted in the Imperial Japanese Army.
When World War I broke out, he enlisted in the Navy and ultimately became a Naval Aviator, training with the Royal Flying Corps in Canada.
When Italy entered the First World War in 1915, many Futurists enlisted.
When Uris was seventeen and in his senior year of high school, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Uris enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.
When the American Civil War broke out, Jones enlisted in the Confederate States Army, was wounded in battle, and was captured and held as a prisoner of war.
When he turned 17, he enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps, and served four years.
When the US Air Force was split from the US Army on July 26, 1947, it inherited the Army enlisted ranks ; the lowest USAF enlisted rank became " Private " ( falling immediately below Private, E-2 ), which wore no rank insignia.
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