Perhaps the outstanding standard bearer of Mr. Brown's tradition for accuracy was Mr. Oscar J. Beale, whose mechanical genius closely paralleled that of Mr. Brown, and whose particular forte was the development of the exceedingly accurate measuring machinery that enabled Brown & Sharpe to manufacture gages, and therefore its products, with an accuracy exceeding anything then available elsewhere in the world.

I noticed that he was in Unit 12 and that he had registered under the name of Oscar L. Palmer and wife, giving a San Francisco address.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

The Oscar itself was later initiated by the Academy as an award " of merit for distinctive achievement " in the industry.

Reluctant at first, Fernández was finally convinced to pose nude to create what today is known as the " Oscar ".

The only addition to the Oscar since it was created is a minor streamlining of the base.

The original Oscar mold was cast in 1928 at the C. W.

This design-based analysis was discussed and developed by Francis J. Anscombe at Rothamsted Experimental Station and by Oscar Kempthorne at Iowa State University.

For Oscar Wilde the contemplation of beauty for beauty's sake was not only the foundation for much of his literary career but was quoted as saying " Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful.

It was the first all-talking non-musical film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Saint Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, ( September 8, 801 – February 3, 865, in Bremen ) was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen.

Oscar was the son of a noble family, born near Amiens.

There was praise for Diana Rigg's performance, and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick received an Oscar for his work on the score.

The film, in which Brooks obnoxiously films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary.

He suggested the Irish Feast of Bricriu as a source for Beowulf — a theory that was soon denied by Oscar Olson.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

Also representative of his penchant for the spectacular was the 1952 production of The Greatest Show on Earth which gave DeMille an Oscar for best picture and a nomination for best director.

On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude, but his parents called him simply Oscar.

He was nominated five times ( see below ) for the Academy Award as a director, and once as a producer, but never received an Oscar.

The world's first commercial broadcast automation audio compression system was developed by Oscar Bonello, an Engineering professor at the University of Buenos Aires.

Satirising life in a British prison, meanwhile, the Bowie-penned " Over the Wall We Go " became a 1967 single for Oscar ; another Bowie composition, " Silly Boy Blue ", was released by Billy Fury the following year.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Former Weismann performers at the reunion include Max and Stella Deems, who lost their radio jobs and became store owners in Miami ; Solange La Fitte, a coquette, who is still vibrant three decades later ; Hattie Walker, who has outlived five younger husbands ; Vincent and Vanessa, former dancers who now own an Arthur Murray franchise ; Heidi Schiller, for whom Franz Lehár once wrote a waltz ( or was it Oscar Straus?

" He was not included in the film's six Oscar nominations, all of which were lost.

However his supporting role as Zapata's brother won Quinn an Oscar while Brando lost the Oscar for Best Actor to Gary Cooper in High Noon.

Public sentiment towards his perennial frustration at not winning an Oscar made many pundits consider him the favourite to finally win the award, but on Oscar Night he lost to Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl.

Bridges lost to Colin Firth, whom he had beaten for the Oscar in the same category the previous year.

Finally, three lost both nominations: Beatty ( for Heaven Can Wait ), Branagh, and Welles ( though he did win a Screenplay Oscar for Citizen Kane ).

She received her first Oscar nomination for the role, but lost to Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind.

Oscar has shown rare acts of kindness such as trying to replace Ernie's rubber duckie when Ernie had lost it.

The hack was so popular that some parents lost the entire contents of their hard disks to preschoolers wanting to see more of Oscar, prompting Shapiro to create a stand-alone application using the same animation and sounds.

He lost to only three champions: Randall, Oscar De La Hoya and Kostya Tszyu, plus to Willy Wise and Grover Wiley.

Farm products lost some 75 percent of their value during the depression, which the area state representative, Oscar Callaway, blamed primarily on the Federal Reserve System.

Subsequently, many other news organizations reported that the Oscar had been stolen or lost.

Chávez was the mandatory challenger though he had not fought at super lightweight for two years, had recently lost to journeyman boxer Willie Wise, and had not beaten a top contender since losing his first fight to Oscar De La Hoya in 1996.

::“ For all those people who have lost or misplaced something that was dear to them, as I have, never give up the dream of searching – never let go of the hope that you ’ ll find it because after all these many years, at last, my Oscar has been returned to me .”

Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, wrote, " It was his decision fifty years ago to publish the first edition of Oscar Wilde's letters which helped to put my grandfather back into the position which he lost in 1895 as one of the most charismatic and fascinating figures in English literary history.

After returning to Panama, he beat Pablo Jimenez by a decision in ten, then lost to Oscar Arnal in Venezuela by a knockout in six.

Sofia was the half-sister of Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg ( and formerly the last Duke of Nassau ), who created the title Count of Wisborg in the Luxembourg nobility for Sofia's son Oscar, who lost his succession rights and titles by marrying without the King's consent.

On July 17, 1993, he lost to Freddie Pendleton by a decision in twelve for the IBF Lightweight title, and on July 29, 1994, he was given a shot at the vacant WBO Lightweight title against Oscar de la Hoya.

Oscar stated on www. metalrules. com just prior to the release of ' Renegade ' that they were going for a more " commercial " sound in order to attract a broader audience that otherwise would have been lost to them and that future albums wouldn't follow in this mold.

At the 34th Academy Awards, Inge won an Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay — Written Directly for the Screen ; Wood was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role, but lost to Sophia Loren in Two Women.

* Oscar A. Janes ( 1868 ), American Civil War veteran, lost left arm in battle, elected to Michigan Senate in 1895

* 1932: Oscar, champion de tennis directed by Jack Forrester written by and starring Jacques Tati ( film lost );