James Hall
James Hall
An American author and World War I veteran, he co-wrote the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with Charles Nordhoff. Hall's other works include Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 April 1887
CityColfax, IA
CountryUnited States of America
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The situation down there is too dangerous to send divers. That's the reason we wanted the other ROV (remote-controlled robot),
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Things like that really don't happen, but this is not your typical suburb, it's part of the city.
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The work is not completed until the American people know that when they get on a passenger plane, ... it has a smoke detection and suppression systems,
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This market used to be a knife fight. Now it's a cage match, and everyone has chain saws.
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The bottom line is it took the ValuJet accident for that to happen.
cultural recorder unfair
As long as there are differences in the interpretation -- and there are significant differences in the cultural interpretations of some expressions on the recorder -- I think it is unfair ... for us to characterize it,
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The real focus of the investigation ... is to get those recorders,
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I'm just worried about winning games, ... Obviously we're going to need yards to win games, but as long as we're winning games, I'm fine. If that means me catching lots of balls, great. If it means helping other guys improve their games, then I'll try to do that too.
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In addition to doing patrols with them, we've tried to spend some of our off-time with them to cheer them up,
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I believe he used a key of some sort to get free of the handcuffs,
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It's all a matter of opinion. The goal is to do better than I did last year, which is more than 11 1/2 sacks. I'm not big on statistics, but that is the goal.
citizens country flight
It's important for the citizens of this country and the citizens of the world to know there were more American citizens on that flight than citizens from any other country,
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It was more stressful for my mom, but it was a stressful situation for me, on top of a more stressful situation here. Not to use that as an excuse, but that was just the reality of it.
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This hospital should be federally funded. This is not something that we should have to hold bake sales for. That sounds harsh, but it's true. We should be raising money for other worthwhile causes and not for things that our government should be paying for. It's shame that we have to do this, but more and more troops are coming home injured everyday.