His name was George Needham and he, too, had come from a good family.

Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner disturbance was working on him as he thought again about Needham, who was eight or ten years older than the girl.

He wondered whether Needham was going to swear off gambling and get a steady job or whether he was counting on the income from Betty's estate to subsidize him.

`` I'll get my references in order '', Needham said, and though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the idea that he was not particularly amused.

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

Historians such as Joseph Needham have seen this group as developing a precursor philosophy of science that was never fully developed, but others believe that recognizing the Logicians as proto-scientists reveals too much of a modern bias.

The public ' identification ' was largely due to the aspersions by Marchamont Needham, the author of the newspaper Mercurius Pragmaticus.

The significance of this was phenomenal, as it allowed the new Guanxian irrigation system to populate an area of some 40 by 50 miles ( 60 × 80 km ) with over five million people, still in use today ( Needham, Science and Civilization in China, Volume 4, Part 3, 288 ).

The last Irish representative peer to die was Francis Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey, who died in 1961.

Final Option, was started in 1986 by frontman, Panzer Vortex when he was still a sophomore at Needham Broughton High School.

By 1933, the whole Circumferential Highway had been completed, and, except for the piece from Route 9 in Wellesley south to Highland Avenue in Needham, was designated as Route 128.

Former Route 128 along Highland Avenue into Needham center was left unnumbered ( as was the Circumferential Highway north of Highland Avenue ), but the rest of former Route 128, from Needham center east to Quincy, became part of Route 135.

Needham mill also had ecclesiastical connections, as it was owned by Sibson Abbey, a Cistercian abbey founded in 1150.

Both Needham and Weybread were run by William Mann in 1779, and Weybread mill was run by a miller and baker called Jacob Stanton from 1785.

It was founded by T. J. Elliot, who named it in honor of his friend, Kansas governor Edmund Needham Morrill.

) From a Catholic family and thus excluded both from public office and from English universities, he was educated at the English College, Douai, and subsequently under John Turberville Needham, the biologist and Roman Catholic priest.

Trevelyan was born into late Victorian Britain in Welcombe, Stratford-on-Avon, the large house and estate owned by his maternal grandfather, Robert Needham Philips, a wealthy Lancashire merchant and the Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bury.

IMDb was started in 1990 by Colin Needham while Needham was working as an engineer in Bristol at Hewlett-Packard ( HP ).

According to John L. Needham of Utah State University, " Mormons in the American West applied gentile, as an adjective as much as a slur, to nearly everyone and everything that did not adhere to their faith or desert kingdom.

And during the second round of the 2011 National Invitation Tournament, the Stags, led by head coach Ed Cooley and Derek Needham played the Kent State Golden Flashes.

`` I've been after her for years '', Needham said, `` but I've never been able to get anywhere until the last few days ''.

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

The British historian Joseph Needham and the American historian Robert Temple write that the practice of inoculation for smallpox began in China during the 10th century.

Later in the 1960s, Sylvania's Electronic Systems Division in Needham, MA developed and manufactured several instruments for the Apollo Lunar Lander and Command Module using electroluminescent display panels manufactured by the Electronic Tube Division of Sylvania at Emporium, PA. Raytheon, Sudbury, MA, manufactured the Apollo guidance computer, which used a Sylvania electroluminescent display panel as part of its display-keyboard interface ( DSKY ).

The historian Joseph Needham asserts that it is no surprise this social group would have been responsible for such a device, since there is already other evidence of their craftsmenship with mechanical toys to delight the emperor and the court.

Black, a druggist of Tarrant County, set aside out of the north end of the deeded to him by A. C. Roberts ( being a part of the Samuel Needham Survey ) for a town site to be known as Athol, situated northeast of Fort Worth.

Needham Harper & Steers, an ad agency ( now known as the Omnicom Group ) vying for McDonald's advertising accounts had originally hoped Sid and Marty Krofft, the creators of H. R.

Used for establishing the Summer and Winter Solstices, this astronomical instrument is described in detail by Joseph Needham in his seminal work Science and Civilisation in China.

Burrows – Abadi – Needham logic ( also known as the BAN logic ) is a set of rules for defining and analyzing information exchange protocols.

Needham notes that their works have been lost, except for the partially preserved Kungsun Lung Tzu, and except for the paradoxes of Chapter 33 of Chuang Tzu ( Zhuangzi ).

By the summer of 1996, thanks to IMDb's first film-related advertising campaign ( for Independence Day ), Needham had quit HP to work on IMDb full-time as a paid employee.

Other satirical nicknames for the paper include Mop and Pail or Grope and Flail, both of which were coined by longtime Globe and Mail humour columnist Richard J. Needham.

Needham for a breast pump.

According to the sinologist and historian Joseph Needham, some early Daoists adapted censers for the religious and spiritual use of cannabis.

The honor for being the last units in the parade went to All American Cowgirl Chicks ( Equestrian ), Needham Broughton High School ( Band ), and RFD-TV ( Float ).

There was no third successive victory, however, a communication error between Shilton and defender David Needham resulted in a collision on the edge of the Forest penalty area, leaving Andy Gray free to tap the ball into the net for the game's only goal.

He was a trade member of the 1994 mission to Argentina and Brazil with the Rt Hon Sir Richard Needham MP ( Minister for Trade ).

At the next election, 1997 general election, Gray was elected to the House of Commons as Member for the North Wiltshire constituency, following the retirement of the former Conservative Member Richard Needham.

The term Needham – Schroeder protocol can refer to one of the two communication protocols intended for use over an insecure network, both proposed by Roger Needham and Michael Schroeder.

No 8 Long Street was the house of the clothier Samuel Powell, as well as Admiral Joseph Needham Tayler, one of the inspirations for C. S.

Trevelyan married Caroline, daughter of Robert Needham Philips, MP for Bury, in 1869.