Once the regular season began, Ruth was a star pitcher who was also dangerous at the plate. The team performed well, yet received almost no attention from the Baltimore press. A third major league, the Federal League, had begun play, and the local franchise, the Baltimore Terrapins, restored that city to the major leagues for the first time since 1902.
Referring to naysayers of the album, the underground fanzine Scram wrote, Fuck [them]. [the album showcases] a truly original mix of humor and sadness. The original numbers always dance just a step away from the cliché, dealing with simple lyrical themes that make you wonder why they had never been explored before. The A.V.
The ultimate objective of the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic [i.e., human-induced] interference with the climate system.
In 2012, BBC4 screened Jonathan Meades on France, a series in which Meades visits what he calls his second country. The first episode ( Fragments of an Arbitrary Encyclopaedia ) focuses on the Lorraine region which is evoked through a miscellany of words starting with the letter V.
In modern economic theory, trade is not a zero-sum game of cutthroat competition, because both sides can benefit. Hume famously noted the impossibility of the mercantilists’ goal of a constant positive balance of trade.
In the initial KTMA days, Mallon would present the writers with selections of movies from the station’s archive to work from. In subsequent seasons, movie options were provided by the cable network. Conniff stated that he often would have to watch twenty films in their entirety before selecting one to use for the show.
Barney and the kids go to tell the grandparents about this, but Barney is distracted by Fig’s crying. Grandma suggests to Abby and Marcella that they go see Mrs. Goldfinch. Cody finds Barney who has just changed Fig’s wet diaper and takes him to see his grandparents.