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Milford and applied
After both New Milfords applied for post offices in 1828, a clerk in Washington, D. C. is said to have approved the other application first and assigned the name " West Milford " to the New Milford in western Bergen County in order to distinguish between the two locations.
It was initially named New Milford, but the name had been changed to Roseville by the time a post office was applied for in 1830.
Milford Haven is an Anglicization of an old Scandinavian name " Melrfjordr " that was first applied to the waterway-the Old Norse Melr, meaning sandbank, and fjordr, meaning inlet, developing into " Milford "; then later the term " Haven " from the Germanic word Haven for port or harbour was added.

Milford and for
He went to Milford Junior School in Yeovil, Somerset, where his " love affair " with sport began, and played for Somerset Under-15s.
Milford briefly became vocalist for Beck, Bogert & Appice for six performances between July 24 to August 7, 1972.
Milford composed the music for Salome, based on the Oscar Wilde play and also starred in it as Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles in 1979.
Books that London issued on commission ( paid for by their authors or by some learned body ) were styled ' Henry Frowde ', or ' Humphrey Milford ' with no mention of OUP, as if the Publisher were issuing them himself, while books that the Publisher issued under the rubric of the University bore the imprint ' Oxford University Press '.
Cannan was known for terrifying silences, and Milford had an uncanny ability, testified to by Amen House employees, to ‘ disappear ’ in a room rather like a Cheshire cat, from which obscurity he would suddenly address his subordinates and make them jump.
Whatever their reasons for their style of working, both Cannan and Milford had a very hardnosed view of what needed to be done, and they proceeded to do it.
Milford took responsibility for overseas trade almost at once, and by 1906 he was making plans to send a traveller to India and the Far East jointly with Hodder and Stoughton.
Milford observed, ‘ we ought to do much more in China than we are doing ’ and authorized Cobb in 1910 to find a replacement for Henzell as their representative to the educational authorities.
" When shortly thereafter Foss brought to Milford a scheme for publishing a group of essays by well-known musicians on composers whose works were frequently played on the radio, Milford may have thought of it as less music-related than education-related.
Working with editors Gene Havlick and Gene Milford, Capra managed to trim the running time to 3½ hours for the first preview in Santa Barbara on November 22, 1936.
Stephen Goosson's elaborate sets won him the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, and Gene Havlick and Gene Milford shared the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Katherine Coker adapted the book for Jackie Cooper who produced and directed the television movie, Rosie: the Rosemary Clooney Story ( 1982 ) starring Sondra Locke ( who lip syncs Clooney's songs ), Penelope Milford as Betty and Tony Orlando who plays Jose Ferrer.
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The 2012 State Representative race for the 65th Ohio House district features Steve Myers of Milford, the Democratic nominee, and John Becker of Union Township, the Republican nominee.
American musicians like Don Cherry, John Coltrane, Milford Graves, and Pharoah Sanders integrated elements of the music of Africa, India, and the Middle East for a sort of World music-influenced free jazz.
It was nominated for Best Supporting Actor ( Bruce Dern ), Best Supporting Actress ( Penelope Milford ), Best Director ( Hal Ashby ), Best Film Editing ( Don Zimmerman ), and Best Picture ( Jerome Hellman ).
There is no high school in Sherman ; students instead are given a choice of six high schools that Sherman will pay for them to attend ( New Milford High School, New Fairfield High School, Brookfield High School, Henry Abbot Tech, Shepaug Valley High School, and Nonnewaug High School ).
It is artificial, created for the Rocky River hydro electric power plant in New Milford on the Housatonic River.
During much of the twentieth century Milford served primarily as the commercial center for much of southern Delaware's large agricultural community.
Entrepreneurs such as Peter Nightingale, Jedediah Strutt and Thomas Evans founded the settlements of Belper, Milford, and Darley Abbey within the Derwent Valley for their employees.
Milford is home to agricultural equipment manufacturer CTB, Inc., printer / publisher The Papers Incorporated whose largest publication is Auto & RV which publishes books available for Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Tennessee, and Maple Leaf Farms, the largest White Pekin duck producer in North America.
Milford was the childhood home of Dr. Ronald C. Brown, noted labor historian and winner of the 2000 Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize for " No One Ailing Except a Physician: Medicine in the Mining West 1848-1919 " which he co-authored with Dr. Duane A. Smith.

Milford and special
He dates the sisters of his surly neighbor from across the street, Ellen Bullard Knickerbocker ( Martha Scott ) and Paula Bullard Winthrop ( Jeanne Bates ), as well as Nurse Katherine Milford and school principal Irene Henshaw ( both played by Cathy Lewis ) in an on-and-off fashion over many years, making sure the situation doesn't progress beyond the just friends state ( although he's always after that special kiss ).

Milford and release
Bradford, the pragmatist, clashes with Milford, the idealist ; Bradford's wife is Milford's ex-girlfriend, who finds she still has feelings for Milford upon his release from the prison camp ; Denisov appoints Milford's ex-wife, a powerful magistrate ( and General Samanov's mistress ), to serve as Bradford's deputy and assistant in Heartland ; and Kimberly's renewed sense of American pride ultimately affects her relationship with Denisov.

Milford and paper
But the command economy of World War II under which all British publishers were then operating posed a problem: everything was in short supply, and Milford appealed to the British Council for help in getting the paper and cloth ..
An example of the ambush defence is found in a paper given by Judge John Milford QC at a 1994 Joint Conference entitled " Beyond reasonable doubt " organised by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Expert Witness Institute.
" The paper also called attention to his leading a recall against members of the Milford city council and " his ability to take charge of a situation, whether it is a dysfunctional local government in Ohio, or setting up the basics of a civil government in a city in Iraq.

Milford and direct
) While no numbered route has direct access to Lower Milford, its major roads are Churchview Road / Beverly Hills Road, Kings Highway, Limeport Pike, Palm Road, and Spinnerstown Road ( which connects it with Route 663 and the Quakertown Interchange of Interstate 476 just over the Bucks County line.
Along with a Board of Selectmen, Town Administrator, Planning Board, Finance Committee, etc., the citizens of Milford have direct input into how the town is run.
In the late 1850s, work began on a network of forts on both sides of the Milford Haven estuary, as a direct result of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom.
Westbound services from Burry Port terminate at Carmarthen or Pembroke Dock, with less frequent direct services to Fishguard and Milford Haven.
Westbound services from Kidwelly terminate at Carmarthen or Pembroke Dock, with less frequent direct services to Fishguard and Milford Haven.
The M & W bought the Hopkinton in 1884, and in 1897 the New England Railroad leased them, with a direct connection at Milford.
There are direct trains to, Manchester Piccadilly, Shrewsbury, Hereford,,, Milford Haven, and.
George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven, a cousin of Elizabeth II of Great Britain, is also a direct descendant, as the grandson of Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven.

Milford and interest
The scheme failed primarily due to a lack of funds and market interest, but it gave Milford a layout and ordered development that lasted well into the 20th century.
* has responsibility for the operation of the Milford Sound / Piopiotahi Airport, and oversees the Crown's interest in joint venture airports.

Milford and British
* 1903 – Robin Milford, British composer ( d. 1959 )
West Milford started out as New Milford in what was then western Bergen County in the 18th century, having been settled by disenchanted Dutch from Milford, New Jersey ( later renamed by the British as Newark ).
The CD ( CC9032CD ) also features orchestral compositions by Kelly's near contemporary British composers-Robin Milford, Walter Gaze Cooper, Josef Holbrooke, and Maurice Blower-and is available on line from www. cameo-classics. com
Milford also cleverly used the current state of hostility with Japan to push for a subsidy from the British Council, although all he actually said was that " the Japanese are very cheap producers " and were likely to capture the market.
It was founded by George Edward Perry, widely known as " Ted ", and his wife Doreen Perry in 1980 Early LP releases included rarely recorded 20th century British music by composers such as Robin Milford, Alan Bush and Michael Berkeley.
George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven ( born London, 6 June 1961 ), styled Earl of Medina before 1970, is a British businessman, peer, and current Head of the House of Mountbatten.
Lord Milford Haven is a descendant of Prince Louis of Battenberg, a German Prince related to the British Royal Family, and later the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven.
During the Second World War Milford Haven served in the Royal Navy, in 1942 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for taking the destroyer Kandahar through a minefield in an attempt to rescue the cruiser Neptune.
Commander Alexander Guthrie ( Alastair ) Denniston CMG CBE RNVR ( 1 December 1881, Greenock – 1 January 1961, Milford on Sea ) was a British codebreaker in Room 40 and first head of the Government Code and Cypher School ( GC & CS ) and field hockey player.

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