However, Wilson and Larry Walker spent much of the season on the disabled list, forcing the Rockies to play Matt Holliday, who had been slated to start the season at Triple-A.

Wilson also spent time on the disabled list and, as the Rockies fell out of contention, was traded to the Washington Nationals.

Wilson, born Robert Edward Wilson in Methodist Hospital, in Brooklyn, New York, spent his first years in Flatbush, and moved with his family to Gerritsen Beach around the age of 4 or 5, where they stayed until he turned 13.

Wilson spent the majority of his childhood, up to age 14, in Augusta, Georgia, where his father was minister of the First Presbyterian Church.

That summer he spent in Provincetown, Massachusetts with Mabel Dodge and her son, putting together Insurgent Mexico and interviewing President Wilson on the subject.

Two Prime ministers have spent part of their childhood in Huddersfield: Harold Wilson and Herbert Asquith.

Much was laundered through bookmakers ( Wilson and Wisbey were themselves bookmakers ), although, astonishingly, only a few hundred pounds were identifiable by serial number so the robbers could have spent the money without fear of being traced.

The robbers who spent much time on the run overseas-Reynolds, Wilson and Edwards-had very little left when finally arrested, having had to spend money avoiding capture and indulging in lavish lifestyles without finding employment.

Wednesday's fortunes took a turn for the worse when a succession of managers failed to maintain this form, first David Pleat and later Danny Wilson spent small fortunes building squads that were ultimately ineffective, and the club's debts got out of control as a result.

The star player for Providence was halfback George " Wildcat " Wilson, a 1925 All-American from the University of Washington who had spent the 1926 season as the head of the traveling Los Angeles Wildcats of the AFL.

In his novel The Trick Top Hat, part of his Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson described the implementation by the President of an alternate future United States of an altered form of Social Credit, in which the government issues a National Dividend to all citizens in the form of " trade aids ," which can be spent like money but which cannot be lent at interest ( in order to mollify the banking industry ) and which eventually expire ( to prevent inflation and hoarding ).

Jones, a lifelong Democrat who organized the Democratic National Convention to be in Houston in 1928, and who spent long years in public service first under the Wilson administration, helping to found the Red Cross during World War I, and later famously under the Roosevelt administration, described the paper's mission in these terms:

Wilson realized the organisational difficulties involved, though, and spent much time planning the deployment of the proposed British Expeditionary Force to France in the event of war.

Wilson, at this stage still enjoying cordial relations with Lloyd George, spent the equivalent of four months at Versailles as Britain's chief military adviser at the Paris Peace Conference.

Richard Sherlock was the incumbent at Winwick for some thirty years in the seventeenth century, and Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, spent his early years in the care of Sherlock at Winwick.

Following these assignments, Holbrooke spent a year as a mid-career fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

After leaving office, Wilson spent two years as a managing director of Pacific Capital Group, a merchant bank based in Los Angeles, California.

Benjamin Wilson spent his early life in Halifax, England.

The Democratic Party continued to support Wilson, and an expensive primary campaign ensued-over $ 1 million was spent by both parties.

Charles E. Merrill, the son of physician Dr. Charles Merrill and Octavia ( Wilson ) Merrill, was born in Green Cove Springs, Florida where he spent his early childhood.

In 1981 with " Breaking and Entering " / " Easy Money ," from Sharp-Gamble's album Dee Dee, Butler / Wilson ’ s production spent four weeks at number one on the Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart and Dance Chart Billboard.

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was inspired to invent the cloud chamber after a period spent working at the observatory.

He spent the bulk of his career at Mount Wilson Observatory, from which he retired in 1952.

His first real efforts, however, did not come until 1832, during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for Ministerial Gallomania.

On 10 July, Wilson addressed the Senate, declaring that " a new role and a new responsibility have come to this great nation that we honor and which we would all wish to lift to yet higher levels of service and achievement ".

Since then, there have been many great names in samba, such as Ismael Silva, Cartola, Ary Barroso, Noel Rosa, Ataulfo Alves, Wilson Batista, Geraldo Pereira, Zé Kéti, Candeia, Ciro Monteiro, Nelson Cavaquinho, Elton Medeiros, Paulinho da Viola, Martinho da Vila, and many others.

In his memoir, Marshall's only negative comment towards Wilson was, " I have sometimes thought that great men are the bane of civilization, they are the real cause of all the bitterness and contention which amounts to anything in the world.

But, Laura Clay and Cora Wilson Stewart of Kentucky were nominated as candidates for the presidency at the 1920 Democratic National Convention and received " the first vote cast for a woman in the convention of either of the two great parties.

** The Labour Party under Harold Wilson wins the British General Election, gaining a 96-seat majority which is a great improvement upon the five-seat majority gained at the election 17 months ago.

The great west doors on Amsterdam Avenue were designed between 1927-1931 by the designer Henry Wilson.

Roger North ( 1695 ) said ‘ Nothing comes so near or rather imitates so much an excellent voice as a cornett pipe ; but the labour of the lips is too great and it is seldom well sounded ’ ( see Wilson, 1959 ).

Wilson ( although married ) had seen a great deal of Mrs. Greenhow, and while with her may have told her about the plans followed by Major General Irvin McDowell, which may have been part of the intelligence Mrs. Greenhow got to Confederate forces under Major General Pierre Beauregard.

SMiLE acquired legendary status as one of the great lost works of Sixties pop, and although fragments were subsequently issued in various forms over the years, the form and exact content of the work as Wilson and Parks had conceived it remained hotly debated.

In 2004, following the great success of his acclaimed live performances of the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album, and with the support of his band's musical director Darian Sahanaja, Wilson made the surprise announcement that he was going to finish the mythical record using his current touring band.

It has 2 elementary schools ( Lincoln and Wilson ) and it also only has 1 junior high school school ( Granite Park ) known for its great programs and faculty.

In 1881 Wilson Barrett took over the recently refurbished Princess's Theatre, where his melodramatic productions enjoyed great success ( if not quite as much as before ), with attendance being the highest ever for this theatre.

In 1757 Wesley described Taylor's views as ‘ old deism in a new dress .’ Job Orton remarked ( 1778 ) that ‘ he had to the last a great deal of the puritan in him .’ Orton's earlier guess ( 1771 ), adopted by Walter Wilson, that Taylor had become a Socinian, is dismissed as groundless by Alexander Gordon in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Wilson made a very excellent professor, never perhaps attaining to any great scientific knowledge in his subject or power of expounding it, but acting on generation after generation of students with a stimulating force that is far more valuable than the most exhaustive knowledge of a particular topic.

The results showed in the great wave of progressivism and reform cresting in the remarkable spate of legislation that marked the first administration of Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1917.

Wilson B. Keene, destroyed in second explosionAt 9: 12 a. m., the ammonium nitrate reached an explosive threshold and the vessel then detonated, causing great destruction and damage throughout the port.

Gough wrote to Stamfordham ( i. e. for the King to see ) complaining of how Wilson had made little impact either as a staff officer in 1914 or as a corps commander, but had a great reputation throughout the army for intrigue and for " talk ".

By October 1920 the local British commander Sir Aylmer Haldane managed to restore order but on 10 December Wilson minuted his agreement to an appraisal by the Director of Military Operations that “ we ran things too fine and that a great disaster was only narrowly avoided ”.

Wilson was a man of great charm.

Brunswick was a New York-based label, but under the aegis of producer and A & R man Carl Davis in Chicago, the company produced a large body of Chicago style soul, beginning in 1966, when the great R & B singer Jackie Wilson started recording in Chicago.

* Richard Guy Wilson, " The great civilization ", forward essay to The American Renaissance 1876 – 1917.

At the unveiling, Wilson quipped, " Isn't this a great country that anyone can make a perfect horse's ass of himself at any time?

On January 31, 2009, Ralph Wilson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame along with former Buffalo Bills great Bruce Smith.