The balls may have stunk by modern standards out of round, out of balance, easily shredded but they went by such soaring sobriquets as the Flying Scotsman, the Scarlet Runner, the White Prince, the Wizard and the Cock of the Walk.
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Twelve months on Maldonado and rookie teammate Valtteri Bottas both failed to make it out of the first round of qualifying last time out in Barcelona.
Of course I was disappointed to be left out of the last round of Euro 2004 qualifiers, but I didn't go shouting the odds.
Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma grew so frustrated watching eighth-seeded New York overwhelm goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury that Bylsma benched the Stanley Cup winner who had made 79 consecutive playoff starts in favor of Vokoun, a 36-year-old journeyman who has never made it out of the first round of the postseason in his career.
New York won three games at home against Washington, and figures to need three more against Boston to get out of this round.
The suspension rules Thomas out of the round two match against Munster at The Gnoll on 31 October, and Wales' international with South Africa on 6 November.
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Unfortunately the companies did not move fast enough, and both NTL and Telewest, the companies that emerged out of the round of business failures, takeovers and forced mergers, were bankrupt by the end of the process.
Guan's third round was two strokes better than Rory McIlroy, who played his way out of contention with a disastrous round of 79.
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Mr Kirchner came second in the first round of the 2003 presidential vote and won by default when ex-President Carlos Menem dropped out of the second round.
Last year she became the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of the US Open, although she went out in the second round of the recent Australian Open.
Whether that entails chatting up the person beside him on an airplane or taking his staff out for a round of drinks after work, getting out and hearing from people--what they like and, more important, what they don't like--has proved enormously valuable for Branson.
The team will jack up prices again if it gets out of the first round.
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Ana Ivanovic hasn't made it out of the fourth round of a major since rising to No. 1.
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Now he's the linchpin of a team that hasn't made it out of the first round in 20 years.
She went to her first European championships at 16, simply hoping to make it out of the qualifying round.
It is now unclear if the European Central Bank will roll out another round of its long-term refinancing operation (LTRO).
Rudy felt little could come out of the next round of budget deadlines that will hit in February and March.
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The Americans didn't get out of the second round in 2009, then lost in the semifinals to Japan three years later.
He gets a real kick out of the camaraderie round the standpipe.
The Islanders, trying to make it out of the first round for the first time in 20 years, find themselves trailing once again.
He will be willing to use multiple players on Anthony, who is out of the first round for just the second time in his career.
Pompey, whose depleted squad meant they could only name two outfield substitutes, crashed out of the first round for the first time in 10 years.
The superstar was eliminated by Ottawa in his first postseason in 2007 and helped Pittsburgh knock the Senators out of the first round the next year and 2010.
Four years ago, at the Olympic Games in Athens, an Iranian athlete pulled out of the opening round of a judo competition that included an Israeli.
Postseason success feels more vital for the Knicks than it does Brooklyn if the Knicks fail to push out of the first round, there may be a meltdown but it's still early.
Sparring with America's trade lawyers is always bruising work, so Vietnam's leaders would not have put themselves through it and undertaken to carry out another round of reform if they were not serious.
All of that, plus liberalising textiles and limiting anti-dumping abuse, would do much to help poorer countries, who feel, with some justice, that they got a raw deal out of the Uruguay round.
Anthony, who made it out of the second round for only the second time in his 10-year career this season, sat at his locker for minutes on end with a blank stare in his eyes.
Before this season one in which they lost All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo for the season to a torn knee ligament they had made the postseason under coach Doc Rivers six times without ever being swept out of the first round.
The Mini 10 prototype is a handheld chemical analyzer that its creators have likened to Star Trek's " Tricorder, " and while the internal abilities should genuinely impress, we're handing out a round of golf claps for the uber-glitzy motif it's got going on.
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