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But when he showed his new figurative pictures to his artist friends of the abstract camp, they paid him no compliments and drew long faces.
He drew his explanations from field studies conducted directly before he went to work on the founding geology text, and developed Hutton's idea that the earth was shaped entirely by slow-moving forces still in operation today, acting over a very long period of time.
In January, the Scots drew up a draft treaty agreeing to recognise the elderly and childless Edward Balliol as King, so long as David II would be his heir and David would leave France to live in England.
Carey immediately drew the attention of the football world and built a reputation early in his career as an aggressive, big marking and long kicking key position player.
Tove Jansson drew 21 long Moomin stories from 1954 to 1959, writing them at first by herself and then with her brother Lars Jansson.
According to one witness, Holliday drew a " large bronze pistol " ( interpreted by some as Virgil's coach gun ) from under his long coat and shoved it into Frank McLaury's belly, then took a couple of steps back.
" At a time when the World Series had long been a national institution, and the Rose Bowl drew crowds of 90, 000, the NFL's title game typically drew about 35, 000 fans.
Elaine disliked his long work hours ; parodying his marital problems, Bakshi drew Dum Dum and Dee Dee, a comic strip about a man determined " to get — and keep — the girl ".
The Gainesboro vicinity was a popular destination for long hunters as early as the 1770s, as natural salt licks drew rich game to the area.
The album drew upon influences like Procol Harum, The Moody Blues and The Nice to form an original sound melding rock and roll with classical influences in long, avant-garde pieces of music.
Despite The Times declaring, " We can remember no better Petruchio ", the opportunity of working again with David Lean, in The Passionate Friends ( 1949 ), drew Howard back to film and, although he had a solid reputation as a theatre actor, his dislike of long runs, and the attractions of travel afforded by film, convinced him to concentrate on cinema from this point.
Their blues rock sound on one hand incorporated long jams informed by jazz and classical music, and on the other hand drew from native elements of country and folk.
His adoption of Congregational principles did not affect his theological position, and in 1647 he again argued against Arminianism in The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, which drew him into long debate with Richard Baxter.
The latter has long been a stronghold for nyckelharpa music, including through the 60s revival, which drew on musicians like Byss-Calle from Älvkarleby.
The first festival was only a week long, featuring 21 different cultures ; it drew approximately 75, 000 separate pavilion visits.
Although, the poets of the Song Dynasty drew on a long tradition of poetry, perhaps especially those forms which were prevalent in the Tang Dynasty.
Various catastrophes due to gas explosions drew far more attention than the environmental impact of long term release of poisonous byproducts.
Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi, the renowned spiritual teacher reckoned as the greatest karmayogi to uphold Sanatana Dharma since Swami Vivekananda drew inspiration from the Guru's life and teachings and popularised it through his long oratories across the length and breadth of Kerala. He can be regarded as a political successor of the guru who enshrined the guru's vision in the setting up of Hindu Aikya Vedi uniting all the Hindu organisations in Kerala under the aegis of a single organisation brushing aside caste distinctions and uniting the two major groups of Hindus in the state, respectively the savarna Nairs and Ezhavas. As Noted by
John Byrne said in interviews and on his website that he drew a possible face for Wolverine, but then learned that Dave Cockrum had already drawn him unmasked in X-Men # 98 ( April 1976 ), long before Byrne's run on the series.
This series is very difficult to document, since the initial issues drew from existing such recordings made by several companies ... and the records remained in the catalog for long periods, meaning they were often remade in Grey Gull facilities!
Then he drew a long breath, and looking out towards the door, exclaimed, " Come up, colored friends, come up!
He was a reckless defiler of the public mind ; a profligate, he cared not how many were to be undone when he drew back the curtain of his profligacy ; he had infected his reason with the insolent belief that the power to corrupt made the right, and that conscience might be laughed, so long as he could evade law.
However, it was not long before Carroll Shelby drew AC's attention to the Cobra, so only 37 of the 2. 6 models were made.

drew and breath
He drew a deep breath.
Cook has been described by Stephen Fry as " the funniest man who ever drew breath ", although his work was also controversial.
He was smiling, showing a row of shiny gold-filled teeth, and as he smiled he drew in his breath with a polite, soft sibilant sound.
Ayya Khema drew her last breath on November 2, 1997 at Buddha Haus, Uttenbühl ( part of the village Oy-Mittelberg ) in Germany after a brief illness.
Trueman would have considered this to be an understatement as he believed himself to be " t ' finest fast bowler that ever drew breath " and there were many who agreed with him.
Watkins also said that he felt " his spirit depart at that moment " when Senna apparently drew his last breath.
The critic Clement Scott called him " one of the kindest and most genial men who ever drew breath .... No one acted with more spirit or enjoyed so thoroughly the mere pleasure of acting.
Some feel that infant was likely stillborn or drew breath once or twice before dying.

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The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.
It lies on the site of the former Woodlawn Race Course, which opened in 1859 and drew national attention.
In 1949, the U. S. Route 31W Bypass was opened to alleviate traffic problems but it also drew off business from downtown.
A spa, which opened in 1854, drew many prominent people for the water cure.
The Hughes Hotel, opened in 1892, became a focal point of the town and drew travelers from the Greenville-Spartanburg road.
The Boeing Company suffered a significant business downturn ( about 75 % of the Everett workers lost their jobs in that decade ); Lynnwood opened a large mall ( Alderwood Mall ) which drew much of the area's business away from downtown ; and in 1990 two arson-caused fires in the city center caused significant destruction.
Confederates Irene Goergens and Ingrid Schubert entered the library carrying suitcases, then opened a door to admit a masked gunman armed with a pistol and then drew pistols out of suitcases.
In December 1973 Buzz Goodbody, a promising young director, drew up a plan for what would become The Other Place studio theatre in Stratford, designed by Michael Reardon to seat 140 people, which opened to a first and highly successful season in 1974.
As the train approached the Merillon Avenue Station, Ferguson drew the gun, dropped several cartridges on the ground, stood up and opened fire at random.
" And God " opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water ", from which she drew to save Ishmael's life and her own.
The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.
' Whereupon she was seized by a tetanic spasm that progressed relentlessly to a state of severe rigidity: her jaws clamped shut, her thighs opened widely, her feet twisted inwards, her fingers and thumbs clenched into tight fists, and her head drew back.
Gotch met Hackenschmidt again on September 4, 1911, at the newly opened Comiskey Park in Chicago, which drew a crowd of nearly 30, 000 spectators and a record gate of $ 87, 000.
Hackenschmidt and Gotch met again on September 4, 1911, at the newly opened Comiskey Park in Chicago, which drew a crowd of nearly 30, 000 spectators and a record gate of $ 87, 000.
In place of the pool the owners of the Lower Grounds built a cycle track and sports ground that opened on 10 June 1889 for a combined cycling and athletics event that drew an estimated crowd of 15, 000.
WMATA claimed that a number of factors contributed to the ridership crunch: the system was experiencing record ridership ; two-year-old ridership projections were used ; the five stations were opened two months ahead of schedule ; the five new stations were opened two months before new rail cars were ready for service ; and WMATA offered free parking at the Green Line stations, which drew 12, 000 rather than 4, 000 riders to the line.
One of them waited outside while the other walked inside, told the cashier to " Keep cool, now ", drew a Thompson submachine gun from under his overcoat and opened fire on Coll in the glass phone booth.
The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1929 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.
" The Phillies opened their season and drew 6, 000 fans.
Ultimately, a US $ 650, 000 ( US $ in today's terms ) bond election was approved and in 1912, the Oak Cliff Viaduct ( now the Houston Street Viaduct ) was opened with festivities that drew 58, 000 spectators.
Metro claimed a number of factors contributed to the ridership crunch: The system was experiencing record ridership ; two-year-old ridership projections were used ; the five stations were opened two months ahead of schedule ; the five new stations were opened two months before new rail cars were ready for service ; and Metro offered free parking at the Green Line stations, which drew 12, 000 rather than 4, 000 riders to the line.
The museum opened at its new location June 21 – 22, 1996, with a 24-hour event that drew more than 25, 000 visitors.

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