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Thayer and began
The textile industry arrived in 1824, when Gardner Nichols and Russell Thayer bought the existing mills and began to operate them for carding of wool ; fulling, coloring and finishing of cloth ; and manufacture of textile machinery.
After reading an advert in the underground magazine Oz ( in 1969 ) for the " International Fortean Organisation " ( INFO ), an American group " founded in 1966 ... by Paul and Ronald Willis ," who had acquired material from the original Fortean Society ( started in 1931, but in limbo since the 1959 death of its founder Tiffany Thayer ), Rickard began to correspond with the brothers, particularly Paul.
During the mid 1920s Thayer began to experience a series of mental breakdowns, and began to deteriorate.
It wasn't until the appointment of Headmaster William Greenough Thayer ( who had taught for five years at slightly younger rival Groton School ) in 1894 that St. Mark's began to experience stability.

Thayer and control
Alfred Thayer Mahan, a frequent commentator on world naval strategic and diplomatic affairs, believed that national greatness was inextricably associated with the sea, with its commercial usage in peace and its control in war.
After contributing to The Dial and sinking large sums of money into the company, Thayer hoped for some editorial control of the magazine.

Thayer and over
To begin the interview, he asked if Thayer, with more time to think it over, could add to what he had said the other day about Johnston.
Other programs include dual-degree programs in engineering with the California Institute of Technology, the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst ; the Frances Perkins Program, for women over the age of 24 who wish to complete the requirements for a bachelor of arts degree ; and the Postbaccalaureate Studies Program, for students who have already earned an undergraduate degree and wish to complete additional course work in preparation for graduate work in medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, dentistry, or physical therapy science.
This was in keeping with the theory of Alfred Thayer Mahan, a doctrine to which every major navy subscribed before World War II, in which wars would be decided by engagements between opposing surface fleets ( as they had been for over 300 years ).
Judge Thayer had presided over the trials of Galleanist members Sacco and Vanzetti.
Tiffany Thayer thereafter took over editorship of subsequent issues.
The power of the French fleet was broken, and would not recover before the war was over ; in the words of Alfred Thayer Mahan ( The Influence of Sea Power upon History ), " The battle of 20 November 1759 was the Trafalgar of this war, and [...] the English fleets were now free to act against the colonies of France, and later of Spain, on a grander scale than ever before ".
Over 350 students are currently enrolled at Thayer, overseen by a faculty of 45 and preceded by over 4, 000 living alumni of the school.
As of 2007, Thayer has 4, 046 engineering alumni in all 50 U. S. states and over 50 countries.
* Webster Thayer 1876, Massachusetts judge, presided over the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1920.
According to Hedrick Smith, in his book The Power Game, Lehman, after losing a fight at the Pentagon with Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Thayer over lowering the number of aircraft carriers planned, played the Washington power game.
In 1975, after leaving the company, Thayer was involved in a suit over fraud in the sale of unregistered securities and was succeeded by former Xerox executive Raymond Hay.
The artist Abbott Handerson Thayer did carry out an experiment on dazzle camouflage, but it failed to show any reliable advantage of dazzle over plain paintwork.

Thayer and society
The reason for the title was given by Beethoven's pupil Czerny, quoted in Thayer: " Because of its popularity ( for Beethoven played it frequently in society ) he gave it the title Andante favori (" favored Andante ").
Although Thayer personally disagreed with such hesitations, in 1855, the Company reorganized as a benevolent society and changed its named to the New England Emigrant Aid Company.

Thayer and filling
One month later Thayer got the call and donned the spaceman makeup for the first time, filling in and performing onstage with Kiss at a private concert in Trelawny, Jamaica.

Thayer and with
Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.
The biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer believes that Mozart's rivalry with Salieri could have originated with an incident in 1781 when Mozart applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher.
*" Casey at the Bat " Web site with biographical details on Thayer, Hopper, Mike " King " Kelly and chronology of the poem's publication.
Currently, WBBM ( 780 AM / 105. 9 FM ) airs the Bears games with Jeff Joniak doing the play-by-play, along with color commentator Tom Thayer, who played for the Bears from 1985 – 1992, and sideline reporter Zach Zaidman.
It took several months after its publication for the poem to make Thayer famous, since he was hardly the boastful type and had signed the June 24 poem with the nickname " Phin " which he had used since his time on the Lampoon.
by J. H. Thayer, with other essays, 1889 ), originally a lecture.
Gros Louis, with James S. Ackerman & Thayer S. Warshaw, 120 – 40.
The original design and development of the Synclavier prototype occurred at Dartmouth College with the collaboration of Professor Jon Appleton, Professor of Digital Electronics, Sydney A. Alonso, and Dartmouth, Thayer School of Engineering student software programmer, Cameron Jones.
* On October 15, 2009, the U. S. Military Academy at West Point awarded him with the distinguished Sylvanus Thayer Award.
Dr. Hibbert is the Simpsons ' ( usually ) kind-hearted family doctor, a near-genius ( with an IQ of 155 ), a Mensa member, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, a former stripper, and a member of the Thayer firm at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
From the book " Indian Legends of Minnesota " by Mrs. Carl T. Thayer, J. R. Osgood & Co., 1883, pp 583 – 593, " It is said that a Sioux maiden fell in love with a Chippewa brave.
A year later American architect William Thayer created the Passage des Panoramas with a row of shops passing between two panorama paintings.
Pol Pot ´ s last interview with Nate Thayer, 1997
in 1860 Jacobs signed an agreement with the Thayer and Eldridge publishing house, which requested a preface by Lydia Maria Child.
In the latter, she played Christine Thayer, a wealthy black woman who, along with her husband, finds herself the target of a racist policeman ( played by Matt Dillon ), who sexually assaults Thayer but then later saves her life after he is the first on the scene at a car crash.
At the time of the Thayer Conference, school psychology was still a very young profession with only about 1, 000 school psychology practitioners.

Thayer and articles
Although as early as the 1850s the inconsistencies of Schindler's account were clear enough to lead Alexander Wheelock Thayer to commence research for his own pioneering biography, it was a series of musicological articles published since the 1970s that essentially demolished Schindler's reputation of reliability.

Thayer and written
" Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 " is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.
In the letter, Thayer singled out Kelly ( d. 1894 ), as having shown " impudence " in claiming to have written it.
Thayer, in a 1905 letter, singles out Kelly as showing " impudence " in claiming to have written the poem.
) Much admired for her adaptations of traditional Manchu fashion, which she wore with lace trousers and jade necklaces, Oei Hui-lan was one of the 42 acknowledged children of the Peranakan Chinese sugar magnate Oei Tiong Ham and wrote two memoirs: Hui-Lan Koo ( Mrs. Wellington Koo ): An Autobiography ( written with Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, Dial Press, 1945 ) and No Feast Lasts Forever ( written with Isabella Taves, Quadrangle / The New York Times, 1975 ).
He has written readers ' guides to the Aubrey-Maturin series of naval novels by Patrick O ' Brian, as well as works on Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sir Julian Corbett.
) He also translated the biography of Ludwig van Beethoven written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer, first published in English in 1921.

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