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He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.
* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.
Though he was not enamored of the party's presidential nominee, Franklin Pierce, Johnson campaigned for him, but he failed to carry Tennessee.
He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974 .< ref > Muskingum. edu
When Territorial Governor Andrew Reeder objected, he was fired by President Pierce, a Doughface.
While playing for the Athletics, Reiter was a teammate of Hawley Pierce, a former star for the Carlisle Indian School.
Pierce, a Native American, taught Reiter to throw an underhand spiral pass, but Reiter had short arms and was unable to throw for distance from an underhand delivery.
Make-up artist Jack Pierce was responsible for the iconic image of the monster, and others in the series.
However, the scandals of Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce and the neglect of the president were obstacles from the start, and Kemp was unsuccessful at either of his major initiatives: enacting enterprise zones and promoting public housing tenant ownership.
Pierce had barely mentioned Nebraska in his State of the Union message the previous month and was not enthusiastic about the implications of repealing the Missouri Compromise.
Pierce that read, “ except the eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which was superseded by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the compromise measures, and is declared inoperative .” Identical legislation was soon introduced in the house.
Realizing from the vote to stall that the act faced an uphill struggle, the Pierce administration made it clear to all Democrats that passage of the bill was essential to the party and would dictate how federal patronage would be handled.
Hostilities between the factions reached a state of low-intensity civil war, which was damaging to President Pierce.
Investigators discovered incriminating evidence at his home: ammonium nitrate and blasting caps, the electric drill used to drill out the locks at the quarry, books on bomb-making, a copy of Hunter ( a 1989 novel by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of the white nationalist National Alliance ) and a hand-drawn map of downtown Oklahoma City, on which was marked the Murrah Building and the spot where McVeigh's getaway car was hidden.
Among them were the New York Philharmonic's Sondheim: The Birthday Concert, which was held March 15 and 16, 2010 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and hosted by David Hyde Pierce.
The term transistor was coined by John R. Pierce as a portmanteau of the term " transfer resistor ".
A 1988 film version was produced by Ismail Merchant and starred Pierce Brosnan.
In 2010, a Siena College Research Institute survey of 238 presidential scholars ranked Harding 41st among the 43 men who had been president, between Franklin Pierce ( 40th ) and James Buchanan ( 42nd ); Andrew Johnson was adjudged the worst.
The main werewolf of this film is a dapper London scientist who retains some of his style and most of his human features after his transformation, as lead actor Henry Hull was unwilling to spend long hours being made up by makeup artist Jack Pierce.
Lewiston was founded in 1861 in the wake of a gold rush which began the previous year near Pierce, northeast of Lewiston.
The town was founded in 1861 in the wake of a gold rush which began the previous year near Pierce, northeast of Lewiston.

Pierce and persuaded
A young lieutenant, Pierre Beauregard, gave a text book speech that persuaded General Pierce to change his vote in favor of the western attack.

Pierce and support
Jayne Loader stated in an interview, “ Had we relied on grants, we would have starved " Pierce Rafferty helped to support the team and the film financially by working as a consultant and researcher on several other documentary films including El Salvador — Another Vietnam, With Babies and Banners, and The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter.
Thursday headlined the 2009 Taste of Chaos Tour with support from Bring Me the Horizon, Four Year Strong, Pierce The Veil, Cancer Bats and a local act.
His best personal support group was a possibly-related man named Pierce Mays and Pierce's wife Genevieve, who served as a surrogate uncle and aunt to Carl.
Other dissatisfied members of the NSWPP chose to support William Luther Pierce, eventually forming the National Alliance in 1974.
Early the next year he sent Francis Pulsky to meet with the incoming U. S President Franklin Pierce and obtain support for intervention in Europe.
Bedford's speeches in support of these ideas led Georgia delegate William Pierce to describe him as a " bold " speaker, with " a very commanding and striking manner ;" but " warm and impetuous in his temper and precipitate in his judgement ".
It was the result of a restructuring process that began already in the early 1970s within World Vision Inc. which was already founded in 1950 by Bob Pierce to provide support for missionary organizations and did business as " World Vision International " since 1966.
Live Nymphomania was released and, even though Pierce herself was not happy with the recording, the band toured in support of it.
The paper was noted for its opposition to popular Louisiana governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr., but its support for the national Democratic Party.
A delegate to the 1852 Democratic National Convention at Baltimore, Maryland, Phillips gave a speech in support of Franklin Pierce who received the nomination.

Pierce and repeal
Close advisors Sen. Lewis Cass, a proponent of popular sovereignty as far back as 1848 as an alternative to the Wilmot Proviso, and Secretary of State William L. Marcy both told Pierce that repeal would create serious political problems.
Determined to offer the repeal to congress that Monday but reluctant to act without Pierce s commitment, Douglas arranged through Secretary of War Davis to meet with President Pierce on Sunday even though Pierce generally refrained from conducting any business on a Sunday.

Pierce and at
* TIB = The Interpreter s Bible, The Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible in twelve volumes, George Arthur Buttrick, Commentary Editor, Walter Russell Bowie, Associate Editor of Exposition, Paul Scherer, Associate Editor of Exposition, John Knox Associate Editor of New Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Samuel Terrien, Associate Editor of Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Nolan B. Harmon Editor, Abingdon Press, copyright 1955 by Pierce and Washabaugh, set up printed, and bound by the Parthenon Press, at Nashville, Tennessee, Volume XI, Philippians, Colossians and Exegesis by Francis W. Beare, Exposition by G. Preston MacLeod, Thessalonians, Pastoral Epistles First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus, Philemon, Hebrews
The decade probably also saw the so-called " women's pictures ", such as Now, Voyager, Random Harvest and Mildred Pierce at the peak of their popularity.
Pierce, predicted that this would be the final straw for Northern supporters of the slavery forces and would " create a deep-seated, intense, and ineradicable hatred of the institution which will crush its political power, at all hazards, and at any cost.
On May 10, 1847 at age 21, Judah married Anne Pierce.
Her first starring role at the studio, in the title role as Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), revived her career and earned her an Oscar for Best Actress.
As a result, the Amphibious Scout and Raider School was established in 1942 at Fort Pierce, Florida.
King ordered that 120 officers and 900 men be trained for " Amphibious Raider " at the Scout and Raider school at Fort Pierce, Florida.
On 6 June 1943, LCDR Kaufmann established Naval Combat Demolition Unit training at Fort Pierce.
Most Muckleshoots now live on or near the 15. 871 km² ( 6. 128 sq mi ) Muckleshoot Reservation, between the White and Green rivers southeast of the city of Auburn ( at in King County and Pierce County ).
Pierce and running mate William R. King went on to win what was at the time one of the nation's largest electoral victories, trouncing Scott and his vice-presidential nominee, William Alexander Graham of North Carolina, 254 electoral votes to 42.
The " dream cars " which American automobile manufacturers exhibited at the fair included Cadillac's introduction of its V-16 limousine ; Nash's exhibit had a variation on the vertical ( i. e., paternoster ) parking garage — all the cars were new Nashes ; Lincoln presented its rear-engined " concept car " precursor to the Lincoln-Zephyr, which went on the market in 1936 with a front engine ; Pierce-Arrow presented its modernistic Pierce Silver Arrow for which it used the byline " Suddenly it's 1940!
The western rural Farm Area, at Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles | Woodland Hills.
The Associated Students Organization ( ASO ) is the official Student Government of the 23, 000 students at Los Angeles Pierce College.
The horses were taken in for free at Pierce, and a veterinarian was onsite.
Many athletes receive scholarships to four-year universities after playing at Pierceand Pierce has some of the top sports facilities in the San Fernando Valley.

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