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Mando, pleading her cause, must have said that Dr. Brown was the most distinguished physician in the United States of America, for our man poured out his symptoms and drew a madly waving line indicating the irregularity of his pulse.
It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.
He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.
The young apprentice apparently did well by Mr. Brown, for in the third year of his apprenticeship Lucian was offered a full partnership in the firm ; ;
Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.
Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.
The new work was a boon to the partnership, not only for its own value but particularly for the stimulation it provided to the imagination of J. R. Brown toward yet further developments for production equipment.
Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.
So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.
Along with J. R. Brown's other major developments, the universal grinding machine was profoundly influential in setting the course of Brown & Sharpe for many years to come.
In 1868, however, a truce was called between the companies, and the partnership of Darling, Brown & Sharpe was formed.
Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.
Perhaps the outstanding standard bearer of Mr. Brown's tradition for accuracy was Mr. Oscar J. Beale, whose mechanical genius closely paralleled that of Mr. Brown, and whose particular forte was the development of the exceedingly accurate measuring machinery that enabled Brown & Sharpe to manufacture gages, and therefore its products, with an accuracy exceeding anything then available elsewhere in the world.
Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.
He was an ardent champion of the Brown & Sharpe Apprentice Program and personal counselor to countless able men who first developed their industrial talents with the company.
During his presidency, the company's physical plant was enormously expanded, and the length and breadth of the Brown & Sharpe machine tool line became the greatest in the world.

Brown and subsequently
In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.
The band was labeled a supergroup as it included former members of several veteran progressive rock bands, namely bassist / vocalist John Wetton ( formerly in Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, U. K. and Wishbone Ash ), guitarist Steve Howe ( formerly, and subsequently in Yes ), keyboardist Geoff Downes ( of Yes and The Buggles ) and drummer Carl Palmer ( formerly in The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster and Emerson, Lake & Palmer ).
The name has been subsequently amended to the one currently accepted ( Gymnadenia conopsea ), by the British botanist Robert Brown ( 1773-1858 ) in 1813.
The Brown family subsequently became heavily involved in the commercial life of the community, operating a general store, hotel, an asparagus packing house, and the well-known Bank of Alex Brown.
In February 1988 based on this celebration and because no other place in the world regularly sponsors such an event, the town ’ s Chamber of Commerce voted to sponsor Ms Brown ’ s idea of the festival and subsequently declared Anthony Texas and New Mexico to be the Leap Year Capital of the World.
* Lucy pleading Charlie Brown to kick the football, and subsequently pulling it away as he tries to do so, a staple in the comic strips since 1952.
Brown argues that as foreign secretary from 1846 to 1851 and subsequently as prime minister, Palmerston sought to maintain the balance of power in Europe, sometimes even aligning with France to do so.
Brown subsequently released " Get Yourself Another Fool ", " Black Night ", " Hard Times " and " Trouble Blues ", all major hits in the early 1950s on such labels as Modern Records as well as Aladdin.
Cairns went on to form a band called Flag, with Archie Brown from The Bureau and signed a recording contract in the US He subsequently teamed up with Scottish singer Alan King in Walk on Fire, writing the majority of the band's material and playing keyboards on tours.
Three side-wheel steamers were also built in New York: the Lion and the Eagle ( subsequently Regent and Congress ), built in 1841 by Jacob Bell for the Spanish navy, and at about the same time the Kamschatka built by William H. Brown for the Russian navy.
) The success of The Brown Book was subsequently followed by another best-seller published in 1934, again ghost-written by Katz, The Second Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and the Hitler Terror.
Nonetheless, this perception, and the perception that the object of some of the Knack's songs were teenaged girls, ( subsequently acknowledged when the band were years older ), quickly led to a " Knuke the Knack " campaign led by San Francisco artist Hugh Brown.
Brown and Silye both subsequently left the Reform Party and later ran as Progressive Conservative candidates.
Brown, whose later invention of the catamaran was subsequently patented by Hobie Alter, similarly refused to contest this claim.
" The threat of a filibuster removed, Republicans were able to force cloture on the three most conservative Bush appellate court nominees ( Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen and William Pryor-no relation ), who subsequently passed a vote by the full Republican-controlled Senate.
Brown, Macomb, Ripley and Gaines were subsequently promoted.
Former GPA Chief Operating Officer and current Babcock & Brown Air Chief Executive Colm Barrington was subsequently named Chairman of Aer Lingus.
Brown subsequently conceded that when he had " used the phrase ' an agent ' to describe someone who turned out to be I. F.
It was subsequently claimed that Gordon Brown had ordered her to repay the sum.
During the 1980s, the Tribune Group was the Labour soft left's political caucus, but its closeness to the leadership of Neil Kinnock and subsequently Gordon Brown and Tony Blair meant that it had lost any real raison d ' etre by the early 1990s.
It subsequently became an endowment for St Thomas's Hospital and in 1876 was swapped for lands in Essex by William Brown of Tring.
He worked originally with ErieElectronics, and then was subsequently employed at Brown and Root and Probe Oil Tools.

Brown and hanged
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.
* 1859 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
When Brown was hanged without incident, Booth stood in uniform near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown's fate, although he admired the condemned man's bravery in facing death stoically.
* December 2 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
* December 2 – John Brown, American abolitionist ( hanged ) ( b. 1800 )
The raid failed ; Brown was convicted of treason and hanged in December.
On 2 December 1859 John Brown was taken from the Charles Town jail a short distance to an open field and hanged.
* Location where abolitionist John Brown was tried and hanged in 1859.
After being found guilty of murder, treason, and inciting a slave insurrection, Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859.
* 1856, 9 August: Elizabeth Martha Brown was the last woman to be hanged in public in the English county of Dorset ; her hanging is notable in part because it influenced Thomas Hardy, an eyewitness, in his portrayal of the execution of the fictional heroine of Tess of the D ' Urbervilles.
Bishop, who would later command a company of black troops in the American Civil War, was in nearby Martinsburg when Brown was hanged at Charles Town in 1859 and, according to MacIntyre, Bishop wrote the first four verses of the song at the time.
Brown had decided to become a martyr for the abolitionist cause and allowed himself to be hanged, hoping his death would help bring on a war between north and south, and frustrating rescue attempts.
* " John Brown and the Principle of Nonresistance ", the transcript of a speech given for a meeting in the Tremont Temple, Boston, on December 2, 1859, the day that John Brown was hanged, printed December 16, 1859.
Five Covenanters captured at Bothwell Bridge ( Thomas Brown of Edinburgh, James Wood of Newmilns, Andrew Sword of Galloway, John Weddell of New Monklands and John Clyde of Kilbride ) were hanged on 25 December 1679 for refusing to divulge information to help identify the perpetrators.
Environmentalist Lester Brown was accused of genocide and told he would be hanged from a lamppost.
It was on the marshes at Gibbet ’ s Field near Mickle Trafford that James Brown and Thomas Price were hanged in January 1795 for the abduction and robbery of a mail boy.
After the failed raid on Harpers Ferry, Senator Jefferson Davis unsuccessfully attempted to have Smith accused, tried, and hanged along with Brown.
He makes his way to Los Angeles, where he witnesses Toadvine and another surviving member of the Glanton gang, David Brown, being hanged for unspecified crimes.
He is hanged in Los Angeles alongside David Brown.
Kenneth Brown was found guilty of murder, and hanged on 10 June 1876.
After his capture in the armory by a group of Marines ( led by U. S. Army Colonel Robert E. Lee ), Brown was hanged, predicting in his last words that civil war was looming on the horizon, a prediction that came true less than two years later.

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