I haven't read Salinger's books since I was about 15, and I am pretty nearly certain I would find all the characters shallow and insufferable now, which is why I haven't read them again.
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"What people here are worried about is that pretty nearly everybody on the ship came off and went sightseeing in the area," said Tadashi Nakasone, deputy head of the Naha Public Health Office, who said the current focus was on tracing the paths of people later found to be infected.
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His career WAR rating was 40.5. In the 1894 Reach Guide to baseball, Jim Hart, who was Richardson's manager in 1889 with the Beaneaters, offered the following high opinion of Richardson: "I think Ed Williamson and Hardy Richardson would pretty nearly make a tie as to being the best ball player since professional base ball has existed."Bill James, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, p. 566 (quoting from the 1894 Reach Guide).
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I have not sufficient recollection of minor > incidents to describe them, as probably no two men who were in that charge > would describe it in the same way. When I was back pretty nearly where we > started from I found that I was the senior officer of those not wounded, > and, consequently, in command, there being two others, both juniors to me, > in the same position — Lieut. Wombwell and Cornet Cleveland. Lucan and his troops of the Heavy Brigade failed to provide any support for the Light Brigade—they entered the mouth of the valley but did not advance further.
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These three points fell pretty nearly in a straight line drawn at a right angle from the middle of the Upper Rhine, eastward. North of Ulm, also a considerable distance from the Rhine, there was a fourth point, the fortress of Würzburg. Rastatt commanded all the road on the right bank of the Rhine from Basel to the Main, and some of the passes of the Black Forest. Its especial importance consists in the fact that it gave greater strength to what was thought to be the almost impregnable position of Landau-Germersheim, and that it flanked every passage of the Rhine on the Alsace side.
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Goldsmith to be sure I replied if you > should go first - and he would do it better than any body. - but then he > would do maliciously says Johnson - As for that answer I we should all > fasten upon him & make him do Justice in spite of himself. but the worst is > the Doctor does not know your Life, nor in Truth can I tell who does, unless > it be Taylor of Ashbourne: why Taylor is certainly said he well enough > acquainted with my History at Oxford, which I believe he has nearly to > himself, but Doctor James can give a better Account of my early Days than > most Folks, except Mr Hector of Birmingham & little Doctor Adams. After my > coming to London you will be at a Loss again; though Jack Hawkesworth and > Baretti both, with who I lived quite familiarly, can tell pretty nearly all > my Adventures from the Year 1753.
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Socialists were divided between trade unionists, > advocates of political action, and advocates of violence; the Knights > fostered the "one big union"; the trades were vacillating between economic > and legislative action... [The] socialists looked to the ultimate overthrow > of the capitalistic order; the Knights looked to the destruction of the wage > system and the eventual establishment of a "cooperative" economic system > which included both owners and laborers; the trades were becoming more and > more conscious of the magical quality of high wages to solve all their > troubles.A History of American Labor, Joseph G. Rayback, 1966, pages > 158-159. Philip S. Foner observed that, > The Knights demanded government ownership of the systems of transportation > and communication, but the new Federation did not. Nor did the Federation > accept the monetary program of the Knights of Labor, indicating that it > definitely regarded the industrial capitalist rather than the banker as the > chief enemy of the wage-earners, and--unlike the Knights--had pretty nearly > rid itself of the belief in financial panaceas... the Federation made no > reference to producers or consumers co-operatives, and failed to recommend > compulsory arbitration which the Knights supported...Philip S. Foner, > History of the Labor Movement in the United States, 1947, pages 523-524.
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