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When writing his memoir of baseball in the New York 1950s, The Era, Roger Kahn included a footnote that quoted Walker directly about the Robinson issue and about the pressure against his off-season business, from a conversation the two men had after Walker finished giving batting tips to a pair of players, one white, the other black: " That's why I started that thing.
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When asked later why he had stopped writing about Greek poetry, he responded, " I found that I could not attain to excellence in both.
When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.
When the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest was translated from Greek to Arabic, the translator Johannitius ( following Alberuni ) did not know the Greek word and rendered it as the nearest-looking Arabic word, writing العصى ذات الكلاب in ordinary unvowelled Arabic text " al -` aşā dhāt al-kullāb ", which means " the spearshaft having a hook ".
When the Arabic text was translated into Latin, the translator Gerard of Cremona ( probably in Spain ) mistook the Arabic word كلاب for kilāb ( the plural of كلب kalb ), meaning " dogs ", writing hastile habens canes (" spearshaft having dogs ").
When Harley was ousted from the ministry in 1708 Defoe continued writing it to support Godolphin, then again to support Harley and the Tories in the Tory ministry of 1710 to 1714.
When his colleague Richard Courant wrote the now classic Methods of Mathematical Physics including some of Hilbert's ideas, he added Hilbert's name as author even though Hilbert had not directly contributed to the writing.
When Martin Gardner retired from writing his " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine, Hofstadter succeeded him in 1981 – 1983 with a column entitled Metamagical Themas ( an anagram of " Mathematical Games ").
When writing solo passages for the bass in orchestral or chamber music, composers typically ensure the orchestration is light so it doesn't obscure the bass.
When Auckland refused to put the agreement in writing, Dost Mohammad turned his back on the British and began negotiations with Vitkevich.
: When God decreed the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His book which is laid down with Him: My mercy prevails over My wrath.
When the shell was warmed, milk would turn brown therefore the writing would appear on what looked like blank paper.
When Bosman was sixteen, he started writing short stories for the national Sunday newspaper ( the Sunday Times ).
When either writing through or directly to physical device registers, this may, but not necessarily, cause a real interrupt to occur at the device's central processor unit ( CPU ), if it has one.
" When he was repatriated, he was allowed to keep the manuscript of a book he had been writing, and his pet starling.
When writing to memory, the CPU writes data from MDR to the memory location whose address is stored in MAR.
When Nash wasn't writing poems, he made guest appearances on comedy and radio shows and toured the United States and the United Kingdom, giving lectures at colleges and universities.
When he first started writing songs for the Pixies, Francis says he was listening to nothing but Hüsker Dü, Captain Beefheart, and Iggy Pop ; Other influences associated with Francis include The Gun Club and The Cars.
When writing against Photius, he begged the emperor to send warships and soldiers to enable him to ward off the assaults of the Saracens.
* When writing RPN on paper ( something that some users of RPN may not do ) adjacent numbers need a separator between them.
When she received the news, his mother attempted to contain her sorrow by writing down her feelings in a notebook her husband had been using to take notes on a relativity textbook he had been reading.
When Claudette walked in the room where Dees and Orbison were writing to say she was heading for Nashville, Orbison asked if she had any money.
When they started writing the script, the Coens wrote only 40 pages and then let it sit for a while before finishing it.
When writing about these picturing situations, Wittgenstein used the word " Bild ," which may be translated as " picture " or " model ".
When Beckett started writing he did not have a visual image of Vladimir and Estragon.
# When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible — and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!
When and memoir
When the first book, Flashman, was published in the United States, ten of 34 reviews took it to be an obscure but real memoir.
When serving with the French he had been at the Boulogne camp, and had traversed much of the ground gone over by Yorick in Sterne's novel ; and in his memoir of Didimo Cherico, to whom the version is ascribed, he throws much light on his own character.
However, unlike many GM executives, Sloan did not put Drucker on his blacklist for writing the 1946 book ; Drucker, in his new introduction for the 1990 republishing of Sloan's memoir, said, " When his associates attacked me in a meeting called to discuss the book, Sloan immediately rose to my defense.
Wrote a personal memoir entitled Quando il nonno fece fucilare papà (" When Grandpa had Daddy Shot ").
The Oxford English Dictionary cites an 1893 memoir by Charles Godfrey Leland, in which he says " When the Holy Spirit seized them ... the Holy Rollers ... rolled over and over on the floor.
Much of his childhood in Abbotsford is pseudonymously recounted in his 2005 poetry volume Back to the War and in the first person in his 2011 memoir When TISH Happens.
Upon publication of her first book, the memoir When I was Puerto Rican, Ms. Santiago was hailed as " a welcome new voice, full of passion and authority ," by the Washington Post Book World.
When diagnosed with cancer, Greenfield partly retired to Bainbridge Island in her native Washington, where she wrote a posthumously published memoir entitled Washington.
When The Fixer was first published, Beilis ’ s son David Beilis wrote to Malamud, complaining both that Malamud had plagiarized from Beilis ’ s memoir and that Malamud had debased the memories of Beilis and his wife through the characters of Yakov Bok and Bok ’ s wife Raisl.
When she was 62 she started to write her classic childhood memoir Period Piece, which she illustrated with line drawings.
In late 2006, Anand Tucker used certain parts of Cromford, including its historic bookshop, for his film And When Did You Last See Your Father ?, based on the autobiographical memoir by poet Blake Morrison.
* Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days: An Almost Completely Honest Account of What Happened to Our Family When Our Youngest came to Live with Us for Three Months, ( an adult memoir of Judith Viorst and her real son, Alexander ) ( 2007 )
Kevin Hart, reviewing Catherine Cole's memoir of Hope, writes that " When A. D. Hope died in 2000 at the age of 93, Australia lost its greatest living poet ".
The reviewer for The New York Times wrote, " When not spinning out his piscine adventures as parables of loss and letting go gracefully, Raines gives readers an alternately jokey and bitter account of his downfall at The Times — which may indeed be perfectly accurate, at least according to the solipsistic standards of memoir writing.
When Hell was in Session is a memoir by Jeremiah Denton, recounting his experiences as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.
* Heaven & Earth ( 1993 film ), directed by Oliver Stone, based on the memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
* Henry Handel Richardson, the Australian author, spent some of her childhood in Maldon when her mother was postmistress there, and wrote about the town in her memoir, Myself When Young
In 2006, he published a second memoir, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, which details the ebbing of his father's life, set to the backdrop of modern-day Zimbabwe, and his discovery of his father's Polish Jewish roots.
In April 2010, Jerry, with Rich Cohen, published a memoir, When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man.
Her son Fabrizio Ciano wrote a personal memoir entitled Quando il nonno fece fucilare papà (" When Grandpa had Daddy Shot ").
In October 2008, the Penguin Group published Jacobs ' memoir, If Not Now, When?
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