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There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

Babe Ruth, as he always did in the Stadium, played right field to avoid having the sun in his eyes, and Tommy Thevenow, a rather mediocre hitter who played shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, knocked a ball with all his might into the sharp angle formed by the permanent stands and the wooden bleachers, where Ruth could not reach it.

Sunday he had added, `` We can love Eisenhower the man, even if we considered him a mediocre president but there is nothing left of the Republican Party without his leadership ''.

We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage.

He described Hill as touchy and apt to overreact, and her work at the EEOC as mediocre.

After a mediocre 1967 season, Hank Bauer would be replaced by Earl Weaver halfway into 1968.

" Before this, he had published several works on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his literary capacity was mediocre, his style stiff and cold, and it was his personal character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector.

They then had a mediocre record for six seasons and were ruined by a trade war with the Union Association ( UA ) in 1884, when its three best players ( Fred Dunlap, Jack Glasscock, and Jim McCormick ) jumped to the UA after being offered higher salaries.

In fact, a high quality writer may produce adequate results with medium quality media, but high quality media cannot compensate for a mediocre writer, and discs written by such a writer cannot achieve their maximum potential archival lifetime.

While the 6x86's integer performance was significantly higher than P5 Pentium's, it's floating point performance was more mediocre — between 2 and 4 times the performance of the 486 FPU per clock cycle ( depending on the operation and precision ).

In the 1990s concurrent with the resurgence of the Cowboys under Jimmy Johnson the Packers after two decades of mediocre results began to become a playoff power again with the ascension of quarterback Brett Favre.

The game was not initially reviewed often, but given mediocre critical praise and positive gamer reaction.

Another time, he lost because a few other students had been competing for years, and Vien felt David's education could wait for these other mediocre painters.

There are many others, though, from " vertically challlenged " for short people, to " vocally challenged " for those with mediocre singing voices.

As a child he was a mediocre student but was very much interested in technology and engineering ; so much, in fact, that his friends nicknamed him “ Science ”.

Meanwhile, the synchronization gear ( called the Stangensteuerung in German, for " pushrod control system ") devised by the engineers of Anthony Fokker's firm was the first system to see production contracts, and would make the Fokker Eindecker monoplane a feared name over the Western Front, despite its being an adaptation of an obsolete pre-war French Morane-Saulnier racing airplane, with a mediocre performance and poor flight characteristics.

Marinetti rejected conventional democracy for based on majority rule and egalitarianism while promoting a new form of democracy, that he described in his work " The Futurist Conception of Democracy " as the following: " We are therefore able to give the directions to create and to dismantle to numbers, to quantity, to the mass, for with us number, quantity and mass will never be — as they are in Germany and Russia — the number, quantity and mass of mediocre men, incapable and indecisive ".

He also opposes the US Department of Education and Council on Higher Education Accreditation, claiming it is a cartel and the group has, in part, caused higher education to " become uniformly secular, liberal, and mediocre: raising the cost of entry.

Despite the early predictions for success, the Astros had a mediocre 44 – 44 record at the All-Star break.

John Huston won the Academy Award for direction and screenplay and his father won Best Supporting Actor, but the film had mediocre box office results.

Two important aspects of a concise language are as follows: First, the most common words ( e. g., " a ", " the ", " I ") should be shorter than less common words ( e. g., " roundabout ", " generation ", " mediocre ",) so that sentences will not be too long.

Madison's Cabinet, that included men of mediocre talent, was chosen in terms of national interest and political harmony.

Looking to build on their momentum from the previous year, the Wizards would start out 2004 mediocre before turning around in the summer and contending for the conference championship.

At his middle school in Porbandar and high school in Rajkot, Gandhi remained a mediocre student.