The Puritan minister Increase Mather dismissed the word as bereft of power.

He was the son of Increase Mather, and grandson of both John Cotton and Richard Mather, all also prominent Puritan ministers.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

Cotton Mather's relationship with his well-known father, Increase Mather, is thought by some to have been a strained and difficult one.

Increase Mather was a pastor of the Old North Church and led an accomplished life that Cotton was determined to live up to.

Despite the fact that Increase Mather did not support the trials, Cotton Mather documented them ( Hovey 531-2 ).

According to Bancroft, Mather had been influential in gaining politically unpopular Stoughton his appointment as lieutenant governor under Phips by appealing to his politically powerful father, Increase Mather.

Wonders of the Invisible World appeared at the same time as Increase Mather ’ s Cases of Conscience.

Upon reading Calef's More Wonders of the Invisible World, Increase Mather publicly burned the book in Harvard Yard.

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Meanwhile, a rift was forming at Harvard between its sixth president Increase Mather and the rest of the Harvard clergy, whom Mather viewed as increasingly liberal, ecclesiastically lax, and overly broad in Church polity.

* June 21 – Increase Mather, American minister ( d. 1723 )

* August 23 – Increase Mather, American Puritan minister ( b. 1639 )

* Mather, Increase.

* Mather, Increase.

Other religiously influenced writers included Increase Mather and William Bradford, author of the journal published as a History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620 – 47.

Title page of Cases of Conscience ( Boston, 1693 ) by Increase Mather

Increase Mather and other ministers sent a letter to the Court, " The Return of Several Ministers Consulted ," urging the magistrates not to convict on spectral evidence alone ( spectral evidence was later ruled inadmissible, which caused a dramatic reduction in the rate of convictions and may have hastened the end of the trials ).

Increase Mather ( 1639 – 1723 )

The first rector was William Vesey ( for whom nearby Vesey Street is named ), a protege of Increase Mather, who served for 49 years until his death in 1746.

The original full version of the letter, called Return of the Several Ministers dated June 15, 1692, and had already been reprinted in the fall 1692 in the final two pages of Increase Mather's Cases of Conscience.

* Increase the Pressure LP / CD ( June 1984, Mortarhate Records ) (# 2 )

This occurred in 1799 when Governor Increase Sumner died in office on June 7, 1799, leaving Lieutenant Governor Moses Gill as acting governor.

Increase Sumner ( November 27, 1746 – June 7, 1799 ) was an American politician from Massachusetts.

Increase Sumner died in office from angina pectoris, aged 52 on 7 June 1799.

* Numbers On Welfare See Sharp Increase by Sara Murray, The Wall Street Journal, June 21 2009

" In 1913 – 1914, Werner Kolhörster confirmed Victor Hess ' earlier results by measuring the increased ionization rate at an altitude of 9 km. Increase of ionization with altitude as measured by Hess in 1912 ( left ) and by Kolhörster ( right ) Hess received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for his discovery.

* Increase Sumner ( 1746 – 1799 ), American politician and jurist

* Increase Sumner ( 1746 – 1799 ), governor of Massachusetts

Increase Allen Lapham ( March 7, 1811 – September 14, 1875 ) was an author, scientist, and naturalist.

* Increase A. Lapham ( 1811 – 1875 ), " father " of the United States Weather Service

* Increase individual power line max load – Shown to increase the frequency of smaller blackouts and decrease that of larger blackouts.

* Increase the excess power available to the grid – Shown to decrease the frequency of smaller blackouts but increase that of larger blackouts.

Evans Foundation Scholarship, 1970 ; University of Kansas Honor Scholarship, 1970 ; Summerfield Scholarship, 1970 – 1973 ; Veta B. Lear Award, 1970 ; Stranathan Award, 1972 ; Outstanding Physics Major Award, 1973 ; University of California Regents Fellowship, 1974 ; Group Achievement Award for software testing at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, 1981 ; NASA Outstanding Performance Award, 1981 ; NASA Superior Performance Award, 1981 ; Group Achievement Award for Second Orbiter Test and Checkout at Kennedy Space Center, 1982 ; Quality Increase, 1982 ; NASA Space Flight Medal ( 1984, 1986, 1990, 1997, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for JSC Strategic Planning, 1987 ; NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 1988, 1991 ); Special Achievement Award, 1988 ; Exceptional Service Medal for Return to Flight, 1988 ; Outstanding Leadership Medal, 1990 ; Special Achievement Award, 1990 ; Haley Flight Achievement Award, 1991 ; Kansan of the Year Award, 1992 ; Group Achievement Award for ESIG 3000 Integration Project, 1994 ; Presidential Rank Award ( 1994, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for Space Shuttle Program Functional Workforce Review, 1995 ; Group Achievement Award for SFOC Contract Acquisition, 1997 ; Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame, 1997 ; University of Kansas Distinguished Service Citation, 1998 ; NASA Distinguished Service Medal ( 1998, 2000 ); Aviation Week & Space Technology Laurel Citation for Space, 1998, V. M.

* Increase N. Tarbox ( 1815 – 1888 ): author

Leverett and Brattle managed Harvard College while Harvard's President Increase Mather was in England for four years ( 1688 – 1692 )

* Increase Sumner ( 1763 ) – governor of Massachusetts ( 1797 – 1799 ), Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ( 1782 – 1797 )

The school's motto, Dat Deus Incrementum – God Gives The Increase, is the same as that of Westminster School, Marlborough College and Tonbridge School.

The Rock Eisteddfod Challenge as an Intervention to Increase Resiliency and Improve Health Behaviours in Adolescents ( 1999 – 2001 ), study explained the effectiveness of the events as a youth program.

* Increase Sumner ( 1746 – 1799 ), Fifth Governor of Massachusetts

* Portraits of Scientists: Increase Lapham's Cartes-de-visite Collection Collected by pioneering Wisconsin antiquarian Increase A. Lapham between 1862 – 75, this album of carte-de-visite photographic portraits depicts many notable 19th-century scientists from America and Europe.

* MAD 004 The Mob – Let The Tribe Increase LP ( 1983 )