.... pitcher. He also possessed a superb ability to hit the ball. By his late teens Ruth had developed into a major league baseball prospect. On February 27, 1914, at the age of nineteen, Ruth was signed to his first professional baseball contract by Jack Dunn, manager of the Baltimore Orioles, at the time a minor league franchise in the International League. Because Ruth's parents had signed over custody of the youngster to St. Mary's he was supposed to remain at the school until the age of twenty-one. To get around this, Dunn became Ruth's legal guardian. When George R .....

.... attracted to the book and was determined to own it. Forestalling his brothers, he took it to his teacher who read it to him. He then went back to his mother and repeated the entire book from memory to her (Fadiman 14, Keynes 75). This talent was the foundation of Alfred's later reputation as a scholar, translator, and patron of learning. As Alfred's role as king and patron began, he solemnly noted on several occasions his disappointment in the state of educational opportunity in England. "Formerly," the King wrote bitterly, "men came hither from foreign lands to seek f .....

.... old. As a result most of the major characters in his novels perish. (www.acclarke) In his later life there were also several events that helped to shape Clarke's writing style. In 1941 Clarke joined the Royal Air Force as an Aircraft hand Radio Wireless Mechanic/Aircraftmen Class 2. He was later trained in the use of Radio Direction Finding, termed RADAR. This allowed him to write well about armed conflict because he had experienced it for himself. In June 1946 Clarke was demobilized from the R.A.F. Only 3 months later in October of 1946 Clarke Enrolled at King' .....

.... Phuong. Phuong first started off as Fowler*s girlfriend, but when she realized he could not give her what she wanted, children, because of his wife who will not divorce him because of religious reasons, she leaves for Pyle. Fowler and Pyle still remain friends, but Fowler always carries some envy for Pyle*s youth and confidence. Fowler is against personal involvement in the war and when he realizes that Pyle is supplying plastic bomb materials to a "third force," he discourages him. Even then, Pyle does not listen and Fowler kills him indirectly. While the novel*s theme .....

.... in Swedish, which is also the language of the will he composed in Paris. The fields embraced by the prizes stipulated by the will reflect Nobel's personal interests. While he provided no prizes for architects, artists, composers or social scientists, he was generous to those working in physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine—the subjects he knew best himself, and in which he expected the greatest advances. Throughout his life he suffered from poor health and often took cures at watering places, “less to drink the water than to rest.” But he expected great improveme .....

.... started to compose works of free verse. Mindscape Complete Reference Library CD stated that 1931 was the greatest year of Nash's life. In June, he married Frances Rider Leonard of Baltimore, Maryland. Also in 1931, he published two books of free verse: "Hard Lines" and "Free Wheeling." Contemporary American Poets made an interesting statement on these first two books by Nash: "These two books show poetry of remarkable freedom of scansion (rhythm pattern) and uncoventional feelings of thoughts." Contemporary American Poets showed clearly that Nash "paved" the way for author .....

.... very high salary for begining actresses. Katharine served as Hope Williams's understudy in Holiday. She sat through every performance for six months. One day at understudy rehearsal, Aurhtur Hopkins, the director, watched her act. “Fine,” he said, “Just don't ever be sorry for yourself.” One night at midnight, Jimmy Hagen, the writer of the play, asked her if she still knew her part. Hope was sick and they needed her to perform. She spent all day the next day memorizing her lines. Katharine did her best. “I lived through it ... so did the cast.” She did have one disap .....

.... hostilities between the North and the South, was Superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary and Military Academy at Alexandria, Louisiana. After the war, the school moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana and became Louisiana State University (LSU). Talk of the secession from the Union was rampant. On January 18, 1861, Sherman resigned his position stating that he preferred to maintain his allegiance to the Constitution as long as a fragment of it survived. On the 25th of February, Sherman left Louisiana and returned to Ohio. He remained in Lancaster for a month and then moved his .....