| Maury entered the US Navy in 1825, but an accident in 1839 partially disabled him, so he left active sea duty. |
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| In lieu of a cheap Chinese army slicker that Maury thought too expensive, he bought himself an enormous white plastic gunnysack. |
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| In 1855, Maury wrote the first textbook on modern oceanography, The Physical Geography of the Sea and Its Meteorology. |
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| When I played, little switch-hitting guys like Maury Wills were more popular. |
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| His son, James Maury, a familiar of this group, was in after years appointed first United States Consul to Liverpool by George Washington. |
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| Or we turn on the TV and find Maury or Sally busily making over some woman who looks too much like a frump or a tramp. |
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| Maury doffed his fedora and ran a hand through his scarecrow hair and told me that he had lived in terror as a boy because his father was a drunk. |
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| To see this dynamic at work, take, for instance, the nineteenth-century earth science of the American naval astronomer and hydrographic innovator Matthew Fontaine Maury. |
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| Maury rocked his chair onto its back legs, rubbed his shirted stomach, grinned. |
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| Between 1847 and 1849, Matthew Fontaine Maury collected enough information to create wind and current charts for the world's oceans. |
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| To date, 33 new country records have been verified and another 30 await verification in Maury, Marshall, Hickman, Lawrence, Williamson, Lewis, Wayne and Giles County. |
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