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Velocity, Speed with Direction : The Professional Career of Gen Jerome F. O’Malley

By: Aloysius G. Casey; Patrick A. Casey

.... . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 The Hard Coal Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 Saint Rose School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4 Saint Rose Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5 West Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 6 Diane Muennink, Silver Wings, and the Air Force Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 7 The B-47 Bomber and t...

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Betty Wales, Freshman

By: Margaret Warde

...ssachusetts. Some humour and frivolity ensue as well as interpersonal drama among Betty and her many peers. And of course, the usual fascination with basketball that tends to run the gamut in the bountiful supply of books about most boarding school girls. (The popularity of this series inspired product placement by a dressmakers company.) (Summary by Daryl Wor)...

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Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College

By: Jessie Graham Flower

... O'Malley, and Jessica Bright. The four promote fair play and virtue while winning over troubled girls like Miriam Nesbit and Eleanor Savell, playing basketball, and founding sorority Phi Sigma Tau. The group becomes friends with boys in their acquaintance: David Nesbit, Tom Gray, Hippy Wingate, and Reddy Brooks, forming The Eight Originals....

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ered the gates of the fair. At kiosks, the three of them threw darts, shot basketballs in moving hoops, and bounced balls against walls to knock over ... ...gh the withdraws, the one who fixed his bicycle, who had introduced him to basketball and his first beer. Appearing like his brother it was the brothe...

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Watermelon Credo

By: Wally Amos

... to the goal unless their team members are working with them. As a high-school basketball player in Hawaii, young Barry Obama liked to showboat his...

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Curly Line with Flowers

By: Ronit Baras

...ch and had a book with him all the time. I don’t think I ever sow him playing basketball with the others or hanging out with any of the boys. Miste...

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How You Touched Me, You Will Never Know

By: M'Tisunge Michael Phoya

...only program worth taking at the college. ‘What else can satisfy man’s hunger for knowledge,’ he reasons silently. “We have a basketball game. Be ...

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Desert Dreams

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...e pieces of a vase he had broken after his mother had told him not to play basketball in the house. Therese smiled at the everyday image, comforted an... ...nner in the family room when he argued the overall athletic superiority of basketball players over football players with Justice and Riano; in the kit...

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These Details in Preference to Nothing

By: Neil Azevedo

...tinguishable falsetto loitering somewhere in the back of the evening and the odor of burnt steak and beer. It was cold outside. It was late fall, and basketball was on television, and we were sitting there eating, my friend and I....

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Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham Flower

By: Jessie Graham Flower

... O'Malley, and Jessica Bright. The four promote fair play and virtue while winning over troubled girls like Miriam Nesbit and Eleanor Savell, playing basketball, and founding sorority Phi Sigma Tau. The group becomes friends with boys in their acquaintance: David Nesbit, Tom Gray, Hippy Wingate, and Reddy Brooks, forming The Eight Originals....

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Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus

By: Jessie Graham Flower

... O'Malley, and Jessica Bright. The four promote fair play and virtue while winning over troubled girls like Miriam Nesbit and Eleanor Savell, playing basketball, and founding sorority Phi Sigma Tau. The group becomes friends with boys in their acquaintance: David Nesbit, Tom Gray, Hippy Wingate, and Reddy Brooks, forming The Eight Originals. In 'Grace Harlowe's Return to O...

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Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School; or, The Parting of the Ways

By: Jessie Graham Flower

... O'Malley, and Jessica Bright. The four promote fair play and virtue while winning over troubled girls like Miriam Nesbit and Eleanor Savell, playing basketball, and founding sorority Phi Sigma Tau. The group becomes friends with boys in their acquaintance: David Nesbit, Tom Gray, Hippy Wingate, and Reddy Brooks, forming The Eight Originals....

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Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School; or, Fast Friends in the Sororities

By: Jessie Graham Flower

... O'Malley, and Jessica Bright. The four promote fair play and virtue while winning over troubled girls like Miriam Nesbit and Eleanor Savell, playing basketball, and founding sorority Phi Sigma Tau. The group becomes friends with boys in their acquaintance: David Nesbit, Tom Gray, Hippy Wingate, and Reddy Brooks, forming The Eight Originals....

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The Palimpsest Review

By: Claudia Limbert

...ff To Piss You Off .........................................26 Lisa Marie Black Ironic Dreams ......................................27 William Zeruth Basketball .............................................39 Ryan Romano Little Boys ................................................40 Aneesh Khushman The Curse of Basuk ...........................41 Stephanie Frederick Johnst...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...y Hospital. Oowlin Block Nertli Adams WRIGHT & DITSON Lawn Tennis Football Basketball Hockey Sticks Hockey Skates Skating Shoes Sweaters Jerszys and a... .... Track Athletics—Manager, L. G. Hin- man '07; captain, B. E. Hnrlbut '07. Basketball—Manager, J. H. L«phaui '07; captain, C. M. Waters '10. GleeClab—... ... Razor COMPANY 350 Broadway, New York Booklet for the asking. II** lit* m Basketball Number mWam^ Stz, Basketball Num ntxWd VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MA... ..."Voted, That the attack of the student-body of Willinms upon the Dartmouth basketball team at the recent gnnie nt Williamstown, coining as a culminati... ...nrcli 8, and received the following reply : "Talked with captain Dartmouth basketball team on Afarcli ninth, day after Williams game. No in- quiry sin... ...ry since then.—A. E. Metz- dorf." The whole nfl'iiir is as follows: In the basketball game of March 8, Waters and Lnng the Dnrt- inonth center, had be... ...hat no community of guntliimon does countenance,"' A Championship Team Few basketball teams which rop- rescnlod Williams have ever started a season wi... ...nship prospects than Caii- tain Tower's live. It is certain that no Purple basketball team ever finished its season with a cleaner recortl. With but o... ... in 1904. He was varsity football captain this past season. He entered the basketball squad this year after two games had already been played, and was...

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Together Forever: The Story About the Magician Who Didn't Want to Be Alone

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...me, and But the magician did not stop there. He made a computer, football, basketball, and all kinds of games so the man, his new friend, would enjoy...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...naries in China, speak Mandarin. It's like with Yao Ming, a Chinese-born NBA basketball player; every person in China claims that he's the best cente... ... with an example alluding back to Yao Ming. Yao Ming, as you know, is a NBA basketball player, considered one of China's greatest basketball centers ... ...stratosphere. Despite his success as a dominating center in the CBA, Chinese Basketball Association, he does not even come close to that status as a ... ...Basketball Association, he does not even come close to that status as a NBA basketball player. Many people use the excuse that he's new in the leagu... ...he's new in the league and that he's transitioning to the American style of basketball. Well, it's been seven years and that's not exactly new in the... ... player in China and a mediocre player in the NBA is simply because Chinese basketball players are not accustomed to the physical, aggressive style ... ...ll players are not accustomed to the physical, aggressive style of American basketball even though Yao Ming is 7'6", he still gets pushed — around! ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s revelation occurred after years of having many of the best football and basketball players at the major Mormon university, Brigham Young Universit... ... “When your toilet is clogged would you prefer a trained plumber or a basketball player. When your computer loses its hard drive will you hire M... ...ey think they are above everyone else—look at European soccer or American basketball or football. While some athletes may be unaffected by the fame, ...

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Pluckings from the Tree of Smarandache Sequences and Functions

By: Charles Ashbacher

... good sense to understand. If you are unable to hit a curveball or dunk a basketball, the next best skill is a love of reading, although I still fant...

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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability and Statistics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ortant missing information about the size of the witness (who could be either a basketball player, a dwarf or most probably has a size on the average ... ...has a size on the average as you and me assuming you are neither a dwarf or a basketball player. These both hypotheses are not incompatible actually... ...hypotheses are not incompatible actually since some dwarfs really enjoy to play basketball). In many situations, we argue that the frame of discernmen...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...Blowing her nose, she went outside and sat on the grass to watch them play basketball. It must be so nice to be a boy, zipping around on a bike, throw... ...but she couldn’t stop. His energetic body flipping his bike, or arcing the basketball high in the air, or rolling around on the lawn, wres- tling with... ...hold in the pain that evening so long ago when he knocked her down playing basketball, Lacey look- ing at him in wonder when he’d said he would help h...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... or a broom. A few minutes later, two boys came into the terminal. One had a basketball in his hands. The other one stood a few feet behind him. He lo... ...ng Hashimnika, Sonsaeng nim," (Peace you do, teacher), said the one with the basketball. "Uri-tul nun taxi ul sayang hata?" (We taxi to use?) He knew ... ...ould be walking. Still it was his way of saying something. The one with the basketball who could figure it out shook his head. They walked down the s... ...looking into every mom and pop store along the way. "Ilchik tangshin-tul rul basketball ul hayoshimnita kachi?" (Early you basketball did?) The fat bo... ...ers' homes as Sang Huin himself had sat on the bleachers during his sister's basketball games. He saw him taking umbrage with the gods (the sun god in... ...eable ailments and who sat him on bleachers while the family went to JuneチOs basketball games. "June" gave the Korean family a name, and the parents c... ...f how so many years of his life were struck down in silence. Only June, the basketball star, had voice and opinions that could sway the parents. He w...

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The Snakelex Report

By: Christine Jones

...umerous dark brothers had nothing better to do than hang over fences, off basketball rings, incite bullying and watch Stella express her loving ways ... ...r taken back by the stranger’s height. Fred thought he had to belong to a basketball team. Alan amused himself with the thought that he would be han...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...different talents and potentials. If you like sport and are 5 foot 3 you might be a jockey or a wrestler. If you are 6 feet 10 you might be a basket...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...Moses existed, that there is a most effective way to make a free throw in basketball, that the government is corrupt. There are millions of question... ...heaviness of the supra-orbital ridge, the size of the nose or jaw, or the basketball playing ability? ―But it‘s more than just the words we u... ...ace, when tackling or being tackled in football, or when being elbowed in basketball. And parents who spank their children should advise the child t...

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...w don’t get me wrong, Barry is not fat as in zeppelin big, more solid and basketball player tall, which just makes him look like he needs to eat a c...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

...t six-foot-four. His boots added another three inches. Wallace said he had been a basketball star at Tulane in the sixties. Guy asked, “Anybod...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...n with perfecting some athletic feat is everywhere in mass culture. Surfers, basketball players, skate boarders and roller-bladers waste years of t... ...les volleyball. You can do this with any single-ball sport: football, soccer, basketball, ping-pong, tennis; and see how much harder it gets; but al... ...onal to begin with. The raised bar of difficulty, whether it is how high the basketball hoop is placed, how high a volleyball net is placed, how fa... ...eapers will be your team to angle the ball into the net. That is better than basketball. But isn’t the goal too big for hands to throw it into the ... ... hundreds of millions of dollars simply because he could dominate the game of basketball, and had more powerful jumping muscles, enabling him to out-... ...ntage of a few inches: selectively developed to be used only in the sport of basketball. He tried to play baseball competitively and failed misera... ...tively and failed miserably because he had trained all his life in developing basketball muscles, and basketball coordination. That is the wasteful... ... Effort? Perseverance? By overcoming difficulties? By success? A famous basketball coach once defined the idea of success as the personal knowl...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... of thought on his father, my son had long since wandered off in search of a basketball game to watch. But I have to admit his question was something ...

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The Peculiar Conundrum

By: Matt R. Erickson

...It wouldn’t take much of a sports enthusiast to realize something was strangely amiss with this “game,” as the rules and terms from soccer, baseball, basketball and football were all intermixed into one bewildering event. And, with millions of die-hard sports fans across America who intricately know every rule and regulation of their favored sport, there is about zero cha...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...hat isn’t any practical use—except the manual training and typewriting and basketball and dancing—and in these cor- respondence-courses, gee, you can ...

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Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

...is an independent clause: “I like the three most popular sports: baseball, basketball, and bowling.” The sentence—“The three sports I like best are ba... ...ll, and bowling.” The sentence—“The three sports I like best are baseball, basketball, and bowling”— does NOT require a colon. The linking verb “are” ...

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