Fred and Ralph qualified as executors and paid off what debts were currently due, and they were all current, since Papa was never one to allow bills to go unpaid.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

Boas had planned for Ruth Benedict to succeed him as chair of Columbia's anthropology department, but she was sidelined by Ralph Linton, and Mead was limited to her offices at the AMNH.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.

In April 1882, Alcott's friend and benefactor Ralph Waldo Emerson was sick and bedridden.

Paul Kolton was named as president of the exchange in 1971, making him the first person to be selected from within the exchange to serve as its leader, succeeding Ralph S. Saul, who announced his resignation in March 1971.

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

The other was Lemaître's Big Bang theory, advocated and developed by George Gamow, who introduced big bang nucleosynthesis ( BBN ) and whose associates, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman, predicted the cosmic microwave background radiation ( CMB ).

In a recent academic study that was published in the Journal of Finance, Drexel University ’ s LeBow College of Business professors Jie Cai, Jacqueline Garner, and Ralph Walkling examined how corporate shareholders voted in nearly 2, 500 director elections in the United States.

Part of the joke was that Ralph Manza as Banacek's chauffeur Jay Drury, would often ask " What does it mean, Boss ?".

The basic theory of nucleosynthesis was developed in 1948 by George Gamow, Ralph Asher Alpher and Robert Herman.

Ralph Page almost single-handedly maintained the New England tradition until it was revitalized in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly by Ted Sannella and Dudley Laufman.

Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. ( April 29, 1951February 18, 2001 ) was an American race car driver, best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR.

Earnhardt was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, on April 29, 1951, to Martha Coleman and Ralph Lee Earnhardt, who was then one of the best short-track drivers in North Carolina.

Ralph Wheelock, was paid 20 pounds annually to instruct the youth of the community.

My arguments perverted some others, particularly Collins and Ralph ; but each of them having afterwards wrong'd me greatly without the least compunction, and recollecting Keith's conduct towards me ( who was another freethinker ) and my own towards Vernon and Miss Read, which at times gave me great trouble, I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho ' it might be true, was not very useful.

The Dylan language was code-named Ralph.

Following the tour, Suzuki was replaced by Ralph Santolla, formerly of Death, Iced Earth and Sebastian Bach.

On May 24, 2007, it was announced Ralph Santolla had left Deicide.

Grant fought hard to get out of the film during its shooting, since McCarey seemed to be improvising as he went along, and Grant even wanted to switch roles with co-star Ralph Bellamy.

Two of the prominent collectors, Charles Bragin and Ralph Cummings, issued a number of reprints of particularly hard to find titles from some of the weekly libraries.

Some commentators, such as right-wing radio talk-show host Michael Savage and left-wing activist Ralph Nader, who have both used the terms, have opined on how it is often hard to tell the parties apart, leading to the term's popularisation.

When she took part in the BBC Radio 4 program Kaleidoscope, explaining how hard it was to play her signature piece The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams, she said that the lark song of long walks on nearby ' Marleycombe Down ' was a central tenet of her performance.

" Ralph also learns the hard way that the British monarch does not just " smile and wave ".

The Cold War espionage thriller follows the moves of British anti-hero spy Charlie Muffin ( Hemmings ) who has fallen on hard times since the retirement of Sir Archibald Willoughby, his previous boss at the U. K. secret service ( played by Sir Ralph Richardson ).

He was closely connected with the leading cultural figures on the hard Left, such as Mulk Raj Anand, Ralph Fox, Julius Lipton, A. L. Morton, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Alick West.

Jackie Gleason probably knew that Christmas exchange — drawing as did the Bickersons episode on O. Henry's " The Gift of the Magi ," a " classic 39 " Christmas episode of The Honeymooners involved blustery bus driver Ralph hocking his brand-new bowling ball in a mad dash to get Alice a last-minute Christmas gift ... only to learn the hard way that Alice bought him a stylish new bowling ball bag.

Ralph Edwards noted that Formula One games were a " hard sell in the United States " but praised Eletronic Arts commitment to appeal to Formula One enthuaists.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

His later film appearances included the role of a wizened fable-telling convict in the extremely controversial Ralph Bakshi animated film Coonskin ( 1975 ), as a train porter in Silver Streak ( 1976 ), as a liveryman in The Shootist ( 1976 ), as a ringmaster of a struggling wild west show in Bronco Billy ( 1980 ), the Baseball coach and school teacher in Zapped!

Ferdinand was a keen musician, and his wife, Barbara of Portugal, more or less a musical fanatic ( in 1728 she had appointed Domenico Scarlatti as her harpsichord teacher ; the musicologist Ralph Kirkpatrick acknowledges Farinelli's correspondence as providing " most of the direct information about Scarlatti that has transmitted itself to our day ").

Encouraged by her summer camp counselors, her family arranged for teenaged Shirley to study twice a week, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the world-renowned singer and teacher, Ralph Lawando.

* Michael McGowan-Former English teacher, director of the Gemini-nominated movie Saint Ralph

These included Ralph St John Ainslie, a music teacher and caricaturist ; E. P. Lemarchand, whose sister eventually married Arthur Fowler ; Bernard Tower, who went on to become headmaster at Lancing ; and George Coulton, who was to write the first biography of Fowler.

Morita gained worldwide fame playing wise karate teacher Keisuke Miyagi who taught young " Daniel-san " ( Ralph Macchio ) in The Karate Kid.

* Mary Price, teacher at Bromley St Leonard's church school ; mother of Professor Ralph Kekwick FRS ( 1908 – 2000 ), biochemist who did pioneering work on human blood plasma

The series stars William Katt as teacher Ralph Hinkley (" Hanley " for the latter part of the first season ), Robert Culp as FBI Agent Bill Maxwell, and Connie Sellecca as lawyer Pam Davidson.

Ralph Hinkley is a high school teacher of special education students.

As Bill runs their desired hero qualities through databases, Ralph finds a young woman named Holly Hathaway ( Mary Ellen Stuart ), an elementary school teacher who spends her off-hours time looking for lost kittens, raising environmental awareness and serving as a foster mother.

She portrayed a teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the 1989 Channel 4 serial Behaving Badly and fictional Finnish Princess Anna ( with " a voice like a Tuba ") in the 1991 screen comedy King Ralph.

Among the many, the bishop ordained Ralph Wheelock, the teacher of the first free school in New England, on 6 May 1630.

She became a school teacher before marrying Ralph Smith, a widower and coal miner.

Ralph Maraj () is a Trinidad and Tobago politician, playwright and teacher.

* Peter calls Lois ' tae-jitsu teacher Ralph Macchio.