Sentences with phrase «draftees in»

The U.S. Army Alpha and Beta Tests screened approximately 1.75 million draftees in World War I in an attempt to evaluate the intellectual and emotional temperament of soldiers.

In 1971, during the height of the pitched battles between draftees in the British Army and groups of Catholics, we are led to understand that while many British soldiers did not want to be fighting there, «oppressing» the Catholics, and on the Catholic side were young radicals called provisionals that wanted no peace and nothing less than pitching the Brits out versus the older moderates who believed in negotiations.

The Wolverines have produced 14 NFL draftees in Harbaugh's first three seasons as head coach.

But then I went back through the years and if he's not in the bottom 16 draftees in the last 50 years, it's pretty close.

After serving in the military as a draftee in Southeast Asia in the late 1960's, and attending college on the G.I. Bill, Bisnar was accepted at Pepperdine University School of Law.

Not exact matches

led me to expect that she was going to answer that question and list the Red Wing level of interest in potential top draftees.

But none of this years crop of draftees took any regular season NFL snaps either in 2017 to evaluate.

But the Blazers have all - around players in the rotation already to compensate for the growing pains of their two draftees.

The common term in hockey is «family advisors,» who might help a new NHL draftee decide whether he should play collegiately or in a junior league.

Social media carried the thunder the Bulls trade started early in the night with a real «oops» of a Fultz Instagram, Joel Embiid continuing to be great at life, and plenty of old tweets from draftees who should've just called Charlotte Wilder.

The 1998 first - round draftee missed five games over the last three seasons and had a +26 rating in that time.

The emergence of two other draftees from California's farm system, DH Danny Goodwin -LRB-.292 and nine RBIs in 14 games) and Infielder Jim Anderson -LRB-.235), prompts Bavasi to say, «Most of our best prospects are in the major leagues right now.

And yet, most fans — even including many knowledgeable fans in this FG community — get caught again and again forging opinions about draftees, rookies, and young players that are premature and clueless.

Billings, like many of her fellow draftees expressed gratitude and thankfulness for their position and elevated platform, offering words of encouragement for those who wish to follow in their footsteps.

I still think NY was in the drivers seat with Melo I don't think this was necessarily Melo picking OKC over PDX I think NY management saw our offer of ex-scrap heap players and felt the OKC offer was better Maybe Noah injury played a role I think NO would not offer up what NYC deemed to be better then the OKC trade I do think Kantor and McDermott are better then Meyers, Harkless, Noah, etc... So without one of our draftees from this year or a high draft pick NY took the best offer I trust that NO is a good judge of talent and felt giving up anything more then what he offered was not worth an aging but talented Melo

Draftees — the gamers — were decked out in Express suits they picked out the day before.

Mike Williams, the # 7 overall choice in the NFL Draft who came into the title game with more yards than than Cain and McCloud have combined for this season, drew much of the Tide's attention along with fellow draftee Jordan Leggett.

As a military history nerd, I'm reminded of the tanks of World War 2 — the Russians built a standard model (the T - 34) that was good enough, easy to manufacture in huge numbers and easy for draftee farmboys to learn to use (the Americans solved the same problem with the Sherman).

The character to watch most closely is Logan Lerman in the role of Norman Ellison, a young draftee who thought he would snooze out the war as a clerk - typist but is sent to the front despite virtually no training.

Black Draftee (James Hunter) by Alice Neel is prominently displayed in the inaugural exhibition at Met Breuer, New York, the Metropolitan Museum's outpost for contemporary art at the former Whitney Museum building designed by Marcel Breuer on Madison Avenue.

If baseball teams recruited potential draftees the way law firms assess law students, they wouldn't look much beyond the player's batting average, home run and run - batted - in totals for hitters, and wins, losses and earned - run average for pitchers.