It made Wilson wonder.

Wilson made up his mind that he must receive at least $2,500, but when he mentioned this to the Deacons they said nothing.

Always, in the abortive attacks upon Ruth's record, one man alone -- a Jimmy Foxx ( 58 in 1932 ) or a Hank Greenberg ( 58 in 1938 ) or a Hack Wilson ( 56 in 1930 ) -- made the bid.

False-color image of the rapidly rotating star Altair, made with the MIRC imager on the CHARA array on Mount Wilson Observatory | Mt.

Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming ( 1576 ) and Stanley ( 1665 ) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας (" Varia Historia ") Chicago, 1995 ; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus ' " Varia Historia ", 1997 ; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.

For example, President Wilson proposed the Treaty of Versailles after World War I after consulting with allied powers, but this treaty was rejected by the U. S. Senate ; as a result, the U. S. subsequently made separate agreements with different nations.

A feature of these publications is the high-quality illustrations made by engravers like Wilson Lowry of art work supplied by specialist draftsmen like John Farey, Jr. Encyclopaedias were published in Scotland, as a result of the Scottish Enlightenment, for education there was of a higher standard than in the rest of the United Kingdom.

Science 299: 1523-1524 ( concluding that evolutionary biology is not a religion in any sense but noting that several evolutionary biologists, such as Edward O. Wilson, in their roles as citizens concerned about getting the public to deal with reality, have made statements like " evolution is a myth that is now ready to take over Christianity ").

Together with William Losh, Stephenson improved the design of cast iron rails to reduce breakage ; these were briefly made by Losh, Wilson and Bell at their Walker ironworks.

Subsequent moves were made to Wilson Street and Ingram Street.

This was also played upon when Wilson made a guest appearance on the comedy TV quiz show Shooting Stars, in which Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer purposefully misquoted his catchphrase by referring to him as " Richard ' I don't believe you ' Wilson ".

In 1999, Crow also made her acting debut as an ill-fated drifter in the suspense / drama The Minus Man, which starred her then-boyfriend Owen Wilson as a serial killer.

" The Star-Spangled Banner " was recognized for official use by the Navy in 1889, and by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 ( 46 Stat.

Marshall and his wife exited the building, and made a call to the White House to determine his next course of action, only to find that he had been the victim of a hoax, and that Wilson was still living.

Charles Thomas, one of Marshall's biographers, wrote that although Marshall's assumption of the presidency would have made World War II much less likely, modern hypothetical speculation on the subject was unfair to Marshall, who made the correct decision in not forcibly removing Wilson from office, even temporarily.

This was soon followed by a similar proposal made by Representative James F. Wilson ( Republican, Iowa ).

Immigrant groups who had made up an important part of the Democratic coalition, such as ethnic Germans and Irish, also voted for Harding in the election in reaction to their perceived persecution by the Wilson administration during World War I.

Two amendments were made to the Farm Loan Act of 1916 which had been signed into law by President Wilson, and which expanded the maximum size of rural farm loans.

While not required to deliver a speech, every president since Woodrow Wilson has made the State of the Union report as a speech delivered before a joint session of Congress.

Shea and Wilson were required to cut 500 pages to reduce printing costs on what was seen as a risky venture, although Wilson states that most of the ideas contained therein made it into his later works.

Wilson claims his book was already complete by the time he and Shea read Pynchon's novel ( which went on to win several awards ), but they then went back and made some modifications to the text before its final publication to allude to Pynchon's work.

Lyndon B. Johnson had indeed asked Wilson for some British forces for Vietnam, and when it was later suggested to Powell that Washington understood that the public reaction to Powell's allegations had made Wilson realise he would not have favourable public opinion and so could not go through with it, Powell responded: " The greatest service I have performed for my country, if that is so ".

Comet Wilson – Harrington is a periodic comet ( formally designated 107P / Wilson – Harrington ).

The latter is named after plate tectonics pioneer J. Tuzo Wilson and describes the periodic opening and closing of ocean basins.

There were also periodic performances and readings by such notable musicians and writers as Mose Allison, Michael Harper, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Shirley Williams and Larry Jon Wilson.

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.

Meanwhile some of the more recent sources listed ( Lemesurier, Gruber, Wilson ) have been particularly scathing about later attempts by some lesser-known authors and Internet enthusiasts to extract alleged hidden meanings from the texts, whether with the aid of anagrams, numerical codes, graphs or otherwise.

Although Wilson had two abortive attempts at an All Souls Fellowship, he continued in academia, becoming one of the youngest Oxford University dons of the century at the age of 21.

Dennis likes Mr. Wilson but unintentionally annoys him, as he regularly disrupts Mr. Wilson's attempts at a serene, quiet life.

Major Wilson attempts to engage Decker to recollect and find an explanation.

John Wilson in Blackwood's Magazine 1833 – 1835, collected and commented on the labours of these and other translators, including indifferent attempts of William Hay.

Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, used a Ouija board and conducted seances in attempts to contact the dead.

Criminologists Collin and Damon Wilson hypothesize that the axeman killed male victims only when they obstructed his attempts to murder women, as in a few cases in which the woman of the household was murdered and not the man.

Other California governors, including Pat Brown, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown, and Pete Wilson, had faced unsuccessful recall attempts.

In Grollo v Palmer ( 1995 ) and Wilson v Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs ( 1998 ), the court developed the persona designata doctrine, and in Kable v DPP ( 1997 ), the court rejected attempts by the Parliament of New South Wales to establish a system of preventative detention, and found that the states do not have unlimited ability to regulate their courts, given the place of the courts in the Australian court hierarchy.

* In the Dennis the Menace episode " Dennis and the Camera ", Mr. Wilson ( Joseph Kearns ) attempts to catch a photograph of a night-blooming cereus to earn free publicity for his garden club in the local paper.

During their conversation, Meacham's lab assistant, Joe Wilson attempts to photograph the device, but is informed by Exeter that " Your camera will pick up nothing but black fog.

After fruitless attempts to obtain a hearing, he, along with William Wilson of Perth, Alexander Moncrieff of Abernethy and James Fisher of Kinclaven, was suspended from the ministry by the Commission of Assembly in November of that year.

After Wilson and Akre's contracts were not renewed, they filed a lawsuit concerning WTVT's " news distortion " under Florida's whistleblower laws, claiming their termination was retaliation for " resisting WTVT's attempts to distort or suppress the BGH story.

It has been suggested that he was closely associated with alleged attempts to undermine the Labour government of Harold Wilson in the mid-1970s, and that he regarded the Tory government of Edward Heath to be virtually socialist.

Although he did make the trip ( after three separate attempts to get on the plane ), Wilson contributed little to the album, concentrating his musical efforts on " Mount Vernon and Fairway ", a ten-minute long " musical fairy tale " which was later included with the album as a bonus EP.

Wilson revisits some of Moore's shooting locations and subjects from Roger & Me and Bowling for Columbine, and attempts to discredit many aspects of Moore's films.

Irony serves the same function in the ballet, for example in the moment when Lord Wilson, the quintessence of Englishness, impassively attempts to sketch the scene of the desert disturbed by the simoom, or when Aspicia, after rising from the sarcophagus, looks into a mirror and is pleased to find herself as pretty as she was a few millennia before.

Following Wilson and Akre's contract not being renewed, the two filed a lawsuit concerning WTVT's " news distortion " under Florida's whistleblower laws, claiming their termination was retaliation for " resisting WTVT's attempts to distort or suppress the Monsanto recombinant bovine growth hormone story.

Following her attempts in Formula One, Wilson participated in other disciplines including CART and sports car racing.

Soon afterward, the Red Skull reveals the Falcon's true past as " Snap " Wilson, and unsuccessfully attempts to use the Cosmic Cube to make the Falcon kill Captain America.

Wallace later attempted to expose security force involvement in events such as the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, and attempts by MI5 to undermine " left wing organisations and individuals ", including the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson.

During World War II and continuing through the Cold War, UE took a more progressive position on women's rights than other unions, advocating " equal pay for equal work " during the war in successful suits against GE and Westinghouse before the War Labor Board and, after the war, resisting employers ' attempts to drive married women out of industry and to deny seniority and maternity leave to women workers .< ref > Lichtenstein, Nelson, < i > State of the Union </ i >, Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-691-05768-0, pp. 93-94 </ ref > The 1946 strike at GE was prolonged by the company's insistence on giving a smaller wage increase to its women employees, whom GE president Charles E. Wilson contemptuously dismissed as " bobbysoxers.

Lowe was established as an alternate route for the Mount Lowe Railway when attempts to procure rights of way to the more prominent Mount Wilson had failed.