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  • HALLAM - It's May Day 2009, and the Hallam Area Foundation is holding a Mexican dinner night to raise money for the ongoing effort to rebuild Hallam after the 2004 tornado.

    JournalStar.com - News Articles 2009

  • HALLAM - It's May Day 2009, and the Hallam Area Foundation is holding a Mexican dinner night to raise money for the ongoing effort to rebuild Hallam after the 2004 tornado.

    JournalStar.com - News Articles 2009

  • a noble excerpt given by Hallam from the Latin prose writings of

    A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • It was on the evening of the third day from that on which they had made their appearance in the settlement, that the man called Hallam was seen strolling, for the first time, through the postern so often named, and taking a direction which led towards the out-buildings.

    The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Not hard to imagine, he said, because the so-called Hallam tornado came close to the western edge of Lincoln.

    JournalStar.com - News Articles 2009

  • Although we lived so much in scientific society we had all along been on the most friendly and intimate terms with the literary society of the day, such as Hallam, Milman, Moore, Malthus, &c., &c. The highly intellectual conversation of these was enlivened by the brilliant wit of my early friend, Sydney Smith, who was loved and admired by every one.

    Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville 1826

  • But it could be answered that if the main principle of the scheme was sound -- that is to say, if it was really desirable not to supplant but to supplement the histories of separate literatures, such as now exist in great numbers, by something like a new "Hallam," which should take account of all the simultaneous and contemporary developments and their interaction -- some sacrifice in point of specialist knowledge of individual literatures not only must be made, but might be made with little damage.

    The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

  • If I had been born 'Hallam' I would have stood by the name just as firmly. "

    The Hallam Succession Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • "Hallam," said the principal personage of the four visiters, addressing him who might once have been, if he were not still, some subaltern in the forces of the Crown, for he was attired in a manner that bespoke him but a half-disguised dragoon, "I leave thee to entertain this goodly assemblage.

    The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • A penalty from Sam Magri restored respectability, and when Hallam Hope reduced the deficit even further with seven minutes left, England dared to dream.

    Germany 3-2 England | Under-17s World Cup quarter-final match report 2011

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