Still another approach to the changeable letter type of sign is a modular unit introduced by Merritt Products, Azusa, Calif..

Merritt D. Hill, Ford Motor Co. vice president, says his company is starting to get calls daily from dealers demanding immediate delivery or wanting earlier shipping dates on orders for corn pickers.

* Dené – Caucasian superfamily: Based on the possible Caucasian link, some linguists, for example John Bengtson and Merritt Ruhlen, have proposed including Basque in the Dené – Caucasian superfamily of languages, but this proposed superfamily includes languages from North America and Eurasia, and its existence is highly controversial.

While presenting the Carnegie Institute's Gold Medal to Beaux in 1899, William Merritt Chase stated " Miss Beaux is not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.

Located on Merritt Island, Florida, the center is north-northwest of Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic Ocean, midway between Miami and Jacksonville on Florida's Space Coast.

Kyle Merritt MacLachlan () ( born February 22, 1959 ) is an American actor.

Eurasiatic, a similar but not identical grouping, was proposed by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 ) and endorsed by Merritt Ruhlen: it is taken as a subfamily of Nostratic by Bomhard ( 2008 ).

Merritt Ruhlen notes that this definition is not properly taxonomic but amorphous, since there are broader and narrower degrees of relatedness, and moreover, some linguists who broadly accept the concept ( such as Greenberg and Ruhlen himself ) have criticised the name as reflecting the ethnocentrism frequent among Europeans at the time.

The best-known such vocabulary list is that of John Bengtson and Merritt Ruhlen ( 1994 ), who identify 27 " global etymologies ".

Lake Merritt, an urban estuary near downtown, is a mix of fresh and salt water draining in and out from the Oakland Harbor at the San Francisco Bay and one of Oakland's most notable features.

Lake Merritt is surrounded by residential and business districts, including downtown and Grand Lake.

The Magnetic Fields ( named after the André Breton novel Les Champs Magnétiques ) is an American indie pop group founded and led by Stephin Merritt.

Stephin Raymond Merritt ( born 1966 ) is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles ( formerly in New York City ), best known as the principal singer and songwriter in the band The Magnetic Fields.

Merritt is gay, and his lyrics are known for bending and blurring gender lines ; examples include the song " When My Boy Walks Down the Street ", which contains the lyric " and he's going to be my wife ," and on the single " Andrew in Drag ", from the album Love at the Bottom of the Sea, he sings, " A pity she does not exist, a shame he's not a fag.

Merritt is known for having a dry personality, embracing a persona and life that is very different from the traditional rock star image.

Merritt is the subject of a documentary, Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields, which premiered in March 2010.

The county is named after Merritt H. Day, pioneer and 1879 Dakota Territory legislator.

Pub rock is usually traced back to the " Tally Ho ", a former jazz pub, where Eggs over Easy started playing in May 1971, and were soon joined by Bees Make Honey, Brinsley Schwarz, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Ducks Deluxe and others.

In addition to playing piano and Hammond organ with the Heartbreakers, Tench is also known as a skilled session musician, having recorded with dozens of notable artists, including Johnny Cash, U2, Elisa, Stevie Nicks, Lucinda Williams, Sam Phillips, You Am I, Susanna Hoffs, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Don Henley, John Prine, Ringo Starr, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Waylon Jennings, Paul Westerberg, X, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carlene Carter, The dB's, Alanis Morissette, The Ramones, The Screaming Trees, The Tragically Hip, The Divinyls, The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, The Cult, The Jayhawks, Dave Rawlings, Fiona Apple, Lone Justice, Sean Watkins, New Found Glory, Tift Merritt, Peter Case, Neil Diamond, Ryan Adams and Powderfinger, Naughty Sweeties City of Glass, as well as many others.

The town is served by the Merritt Parkway and by a spur line of the Metro-North Railroad.

Lewis Lapham, a founder of Texaco and great-grandfather of long-time Harper's Magazine editor Lewis H. Lapham, spent summers with his family at their estate that is now Waveny Park next to Talmadge Hill and the Merritt Parkway.

While not passing through any part of Wilton, the Merritt Parkway ( Route 15 ) also serves the town via the Route 33 exit ( Exit 41 ) which is signed for Wilton, as well as the Route 7 exits ( Exits 39B & 40B ) which are signed for Danbury.

On April 14, 1985, Evan Merritt, caught a 41 pound Long Nose Gar in Lake Panasoffkee, Florida, this is the largest long nose gar caught in the state of Florida.

Mosquito Lagoon, the Indian River, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Canaveral National Seashore are also features of this area.

During this period a wave of acts also came from New Zealand, including Ray Columbus & the Invaders, Max Merritt & The Meteors, Dinah Lee, Larry's Rebels and The La De Das.

Merritt also wears earplugs during performances, and typically covers his left ear when the audience applauds.

One of the former Tally Ho jazz players, Barry Richardson, was so impressed he formed Bees Make Honey, who were also given a Tally Ho residency, alongside a mix of new and existing bands, such as Max Merritt and the Meteors and Brinsley Schwarz.

Merritt also played a role in making St. Catharines an important place of abolitionist activity.

Later in the session, he also spoke out against the Welland Canal Company, denouncing its close links with the Executive Council and the financing methods of William Hamilton Merritt.

The 6ths is a band created by Stephin Merritt, also the prime mover behind The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes.

After a short ceremony at Lock One, in Port Dalhousie, the schooner Anne & Jane ( also called " Annie & Jane " in some texts ) made the first transit, upbound to Buffalo, N. Y., with Merritt as a passenger on her deck.

Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, was also influenced by Miller ( see the sound file above with Will's singer Tommy Duncan singing " Blue Yodel No. 1 " in 1937 ) In the early 1920s African American Winston Holmes started a record label, Merritt Records, and was a performer himself.

A downtown site adjacent to Lake Merritt and the Oakland Auditorium ( which itself, many years later, would be renamed the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center ) was also originally considered.

The music of Stephin Merritt can also be heard throughout the series, including songs from his projects The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths and The Gothic Archies.

American impressionist artists also thrived in California at Carmel and Laguna Beach ; in New York on eastern Long Island at Shinnecock, largely due to the influence of William Merritt Chase ; and in Boston where Edmund Charles Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson became important practitioners of the impressionist style.

She also studied under Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and at the New York School of Art under William Merritt Chase in American Impressionism.

) Defense attorneys Martin Merritt of Dallas and ACLU lawyer Michael Linz, also of Dallas, with others successfully won dismissal for the six defendants in federal district court.

The Lake Merritt Channel will also be daylighted where it crosses under the east split of 12th Street through a culvert ; the reconfigured 12th Street will have a bridge crossing over the channel.

Many of the former apprentice singers have returned to perform major roles with the company, notably in recent years, Mark Doss in the 2011 Faust, Joyce DiDonato in the 2006 Cendrillon, Chris Merritt also in 2006 in The Tempest, and Carl Tanner in the 2005 production of Turandot.

It was proposed that Memorial Coliseum be demolished to make room for a 9, 000-seat new ballpark for Merritt Paulson ’ s Portland Beavers baseball team, since the team was moving from PGE Park to make room for the new Portland Timbers Major League Soccer franchise, also a Paulson-owned team.

Exit 3 leads to Route 15 southbound, also known as the Merritt Parkway.

Cox was also a teacher with numerous students including William Merritt Chase.

Shade, as always, wishes peace for Opal, and also does not like Merritt, the human guardian of the poster, who has gained immortality for his protection of it, and consequently become the inspiration for Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The paper built its national reputation largely under the editorship of W. Davis " Buzz " Merritt Jr., one of the earliest and most vocal proponents of civic journalism ( also known as public journalism ) which believes that journalists and their audiences are not merely spectators in political and social processes, and that journalists should not simply report dry facts as a pretense that their reporting represents unadulterated neutrality, which is impossible.

Central Florida also has a wide variety of natural attractions including the Wekiwa Springs State Park, Blue Spring State Park, Rock Springs Run State Reserve, Canaveral National Seashore, and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

The band also consists of Richie " LaBamba " Rosenberg on trombone, Scott Healy on keyboard, Mike Merritt on bass guitar, Mark Pender on trumpet and Jerry Vivino on woodwinds.