The first Canadian dictionaries of Canadian English were edited by Walter Spencer Avis and published by Gage Ltd.

The first English-born editor-in-chief was Thomas Spencer Baynes, who oversaw the production of the 9th edition ; dubbed the " Scholar's Edition ", the 9th is the most scholarly Britannica.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

Several reports have incorrectly suggested that he took his name in tribute to actor Spencer Tracy, combining Tracy's first and last names.

The first Marks & Spencer store in Central Asia was built there.

One of the first and most popular supercouples was Luke Spencer and Laura Webber in General Hospital.

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

The fifth edition, published on 10 February 1869, incorporated more changes and for the first time included the phrase " survival of the fittest ", which had been coined by the philosopher Herbert Spencer in his Principles of Biology ( 1864 ).

The university was established on February 28, 1850, as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, and Orson Spencer was appointed as the first chancellor of the university.

Along with Herbert Spencer, he was one of the first people to explain the existence and quality of different parts of a society by reference to what function they served in maintaining the quotidian ( i. e. by how they make society " work ").

The first cable tram line opened on 11 November 1885, running from Bourke Street to Hawthorn Bridge, along Spencer Street, Flinders Street, Wellington Parade and Bridge Road, with the last line opening on 27 October 1891.

( Spencer Tracy was the first, winning in 1937 – 38.

* In 1988, Timothy Wilson Spencer was the first man in Virginia to be sentenced to death through DNA testing, for several rape and murder charges.

The first ascent of Grand Teton that is substantiated was made by William O. Owen, Frank Petersen, John Shive and Franklin Spencer Spalding on August 11, 1898.

Tracy was absent from screens in 1946, the first year since his motion picture debut that there was no Spencer Tracy release.

The Organiser II was widely used for commercial applications in companies such as Marks and Spencer, where it was used on the shop floor, and in the world's first large scale application of mobile technology in government where over 3000 were used for benefit calculations by the Employment Services department of the UK government.

Her first marriage, to U. S. naval officer Win Spencer, was punctuated with periods of separation and eventually ended in divorce.

After the United States entered World War I in 1917, Spencer was posted to San Diego as the first commanding officer of a training base in Coronado, known as Naval Air Station North Island ; they remained there until 1921.

He also began developing bluescreen techniques: one of the first films to use them was the 1958 adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novella, The Old Man and the Sea, starring Spencer Tracy.

# Lady Diana Spencer ( 29 July 1981 – 31 August 1997 ) — Diana was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981.

Dr. Percy Spencer invented the first microwave oven after World War II from radar technology developed during the war.

The play had its first English production in 1946 at the New Theatre in London with Ralph Richardson as Inspector Goole, Harry Andrews as Gerald Croft, Margaret Leighton as Sheila Birling, Julian Mitchell as Arthur Birling, Marian Spencer as Sybil Birling and Alec Guinness as Eric Birling.

His writing system was first published in 1848, in his book Spencer and Rice's System of Business and Ladies ' Penmanship.

The first European settlement in the South Island was founded at Bluff in 1823 by James Spencer a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo.

His fourth design, the C. 4, made the first documented flight of an autogyro on 17 January 1923, piloted by Alejandro Gomez Spencer at Cuatro Vientos airfield in Madrid, Spain ( 9 January according to Cierva ).

The Spencers started out as sheep farmers in pre-Tudor times but rose to opulent prominence during the 16th century where it was said that Lord Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, was reputed to be the richest man in England upon the ascension of King James I to the English throne.

Upon formation of the party, Spencer rose to become the political leader of the party and the Opposition Leader in the Parliament.

The group became The Avalanches at their fifth gig – a support slot for Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – and rose to prominence quickly.

Spencer rose to the challenge, and within a few days they began work on sketching out the proposed designs for the sets.

Prior to working with the Rolling Stones, Miller rose to fame by producing successful releases for The Spencer Davis Group including their breakthrough hit " Gimme Some Lovin '" and the follow-up smash " I'm A Man ," which Miller co-wrote with the band's singer-keyboardist, Steve Winwood.

His father, Reuben Spencer, who had come from Derbyshire in his youth, obtained a position with Rylands and Sons, cotton manufacturers, and rose to be chairman of its board of directors when Rylands became a company.

His film career began with minor roles in films dating back to 1945, including They Were Expendable ( with John Wayne and Robert Montgomery, but he quickly rose to young leading man status opposite such stars as Wallace Beery in The Mighty McGurk, Doris Day and James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me, Lana Turner and Spencer Tracy in Cass Timberlane, Clark Gable and Jane Russell in The Tall Men, and Marlon Brando, Merle Oberon, Jean Simmons in Désirée, and Joanne Woodward and Sheree North in No Down Payment.

The land was a gift to the state from the estate of Harriet Hollister Spencer ( 1887-1962 ), a Rochester rose expert and civic leader.

One of these, later known as Social Darwinism, had been put forward by Herbert Spencer before publication of Origin, and argued that society would naturally sort itself out, and that the more " fit " individuals would rise to positions of higher prominence, while the less " fit " would succumb to poverty and disease.

As a result, reports of the battle did not reach Britain until Capel arrived in Mutine on 2 October, entering the Admiralty at 11: 15 and personally delivering the news to Lord Spencer, who collapsed unconscious when he heard the report.

Spencer Jones ' work of 1939 showed that the positions of the Sun actually observed, when compared with those obtained from Newcomb's formula, show the need for the following correction to the formula to represent the observations:

Peter Schweizer points out several examples of insider trading by members of Congress, including action taken by Spencer Bachus following a private, behind-the-doors meeting on the evening of September 18, 2008 when Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke informed members of Congress about the imminent financial crisis, Bachus then shorted stocks the next morning and cashed in his profits within a week.

The ruse proved so successful that when Spencer Tracy came to visit, his taxi driver refused to drive up to the house, saying, " I hear they shoot!

And when it transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London, Charles Spencer reviewing for the Daily Telegraph pronounced it the best Macbeth he had ever seen.

On rare occasions Spencer would use a rifle or shotgun when the situation required them.

The white wedding style was given another significant boost in 1981, when three-quarter billion people — one out of six people around the globe — watched Charles, Prince of Wales marry Diana Spencer in her elaborate white taffeta dress with a 25-foot-long train.

Peel made his maiden speech at the start of the 1810 session, when he was chosen by the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, to second the reply to the king's speech.

Some scholars ( e. g. Tillett and Spencer, 2000 ) have offered evidence that Gilbert and Sullivan had planned all along to re-use " Climbing over rocky mountain ," and perhaps other parts of Thespis, noting that the presence of the unpublished Thespis score in New York, when there were no plans to revive it, might not have been accidental.

They soon separated again, and in 1922, when Spencer was posted to the Far East as commander of the, Wallis remained behind, continuing an affair with an Argentine diplomat, Felipe de Espil.

Shatner changed his mind when producer Harve Bennett convinced Shatner that he could age gracefully like Spencer Tracy.

* In The Exploration Generation by Spencer Murray, Stella Knowles comes from 24 September 2029 when she crash-lands on the 31 August 2009.

Following the wedding of his daughter Kay ( Elizabeth Taylor ), Stanley T. Banks ( Spencer Tracy ), a suburban lawyer, recalls the day, three months earlier, when he first learned of Kay's engagement to Buckley Dunstan ( Don Taylor ).

The club has played there continuously since 1859 when lord of the manor, Earl Spencer, suggested it as a new site.

Spencer was a dry county until 2009 when the county's residents voted to overturn the ban on alcohol sales.

The beauty of McCall and Payette Lake drew attention from Hollywood in 1938 when it was selected as the filming location for the Academy Award-nominated Northwest Passage, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, and Walter Brennan.

WBTV's transmitter remained on Spencer Mountain until 1984, when a new transmitter tower was completed in Dallas, North Carolina, in the north-central portion of Gaston County.

Peter Spencer ( 1782-1843 ) was born under slavery in Kent County, Maryland, in 1782, was freed when his master died, and became the founder of the first independent black Christian Church in the United States, the A. U. M. P.

Begun in 1814 by Peter Spencer in connection with the " quarterly " meeting ( or " conference ") of the African Union Church -- of the four meetings during the year, the one in August became the " annual conference " of the Church when ministers ' assignments for the next year were announced, among other business -- it was a time for free blacks and slaves alike to come together ( from the multi-state area ) and celebrate their faith with singing, dancing, testifying, and feasting.

Hillery also hit the headlines when, on the advice of then Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, he declined Queen Elizabeth II's invitation to attend the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.

During a warm debate in the House of Peers, Lord Spencer was speaking something in the house that their great ancestors did, when suddenly the Earl of Arundel cuts him off and then said " My Lord, when these things you speak of were doing, your ancestors were keeping sheep ".

In 1894, the year when Marks acquired a permanent stall in Leeds ' covered market, he decided to invite Spencer to become his partner

Spencer reported that in 1941 when he ( Spencer ) was about to get on the boat that would take him home to the United States, Littlewood reminded him: " n, n alpha, n beta!