Spalding

This season, the NBA switched from its longtime use of the Spalding basketball back to Wilson, its original partner from league inception.
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Spalding took his fake Far West history lesson on the road in 1871, traveling east by train to Washington, where he was received as a truth-telling man of God.
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Still, Ehrlich, who now works at the Washington law firm King & Spalding, harbors aspirations of having “a voice in the party.”
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Women such as Esperanza Spalding, Erykah Badu, and Adele all owe a debt to styles from bygone eras.
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The chest protector was paper-thin with the faded mark of “Spalding” in the top left hand corner.
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Spalding concluded that the appearance of such a monster did not come as a sign of good to Aberdeen.
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To Mrs Spalding and her family I am greatly obligd for their willing consent to the present reprint.
A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen|William Spalding
The lookers-on, knowing that Spalding was ambitious, expected to hear him in the tuneful choir, but he was dumb.
A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen|William Spalding
Spalding could not but see merit in these, for none of them gave themselves to vulgar or purely popular art.
A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen|William Spalding
Spalding's mother, Frances Read, was well connected among the old and influential families of the city.
A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen|William Spalding

British Dictionary definitions for Spalding

Spalding

/ (ˈspɔːldɪŋ) /

noun

a town in E England, in S Lincolnshire: noted for its bulbfields. Pop: 22 081 (2001)

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