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McDowell was " absolutely horrified " to hear that Wells spoke in a high-pitched, squeaky voice with a pronounced Southeast London accent, which McDowell felt would have resulted in unintentional humor if McDowell tried to mimic it for the film.
In 1991, Wells brought a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Motown for royalties she felt she had not received upon leaving Motown Records in 1964 and for loss of royalties for not promoting her songs as the company should have.
The Liberals, under Wells, campaigned on cutting $ 70 million from the public sector payroll, while both the Tories and New Democrats felt the cuts proposed by Wells were to drastic.
Wells felt nothing, and was the first patient to be operated on under anesthesia, having his tooth extracted later that year by his associate, John Riggs.
But whether I recognized the name or not, in the act of signing I felt some individual participation in the joy and satisfaction of each graduate who had won his degree with conscientious work and application .-- From Alma Pater: Herman B Wells and the Rise of Indiana University ; James H. Capshew
When Hoyt Axton performed the song to the group, two of the three main vocalists – Danny Hutton and Cory Wells – rejected the song, but Chuck Negron felt that the band needed a " silly song " to help bring the band back together as a working unit.
In one of the letters he said he was tired of being shadowed by Wells Fargo, felt demoralized, and wanted to get away from everybody.
When he realized what had occurred, Wells said, " I felt to see if I was all there ...

Wells and technological
* Steampunk is based on the idea of futuristic technology existing in the past, usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England — but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.
In the United Kingdom, for example, following wider publicity of fatal accidents on the rail network and at sea, the term is commonly used in reference to corporate manslaughter and to involve a more general discussion about the technological hazards posed by business enterprises ( see Wells: 2001 ).
Wells early emphasized that technological unemployment was displacing of men by machines.

Wells and advances
Wells ( 1890 ) gives an account of the period and discusses the great advances in productivity which Wells argues were the cause of the deflation.
Wells also discussed the Long Depression and many causes of the great advances in productivity of the preceding 20 years.
As the decade came to a close, however, Mineral Wells ' reputation as a health spa was in decline ; advances in modern medication and the discovery of antibiotics such as penicillin began to lead local doctors, who had been encouraging patients to partake in the area's therapeutic waters, to invest more confidence in medicine.

Wells and such
Wells contemplates the ideas of nature versus nurture and questions humanity in books such as The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.
Wells has argued against the authenticity of the Testimonium, stating that the passage is noticeably shorter and more cursory than such notices generally used by Josephus in the Antiquities, and that had it been authentic, it would have included more details and a longer introduction.
Wells ' The Time Machine ), beast tales ( such as Aesop's Fables and Peter Rabbit ), and dream stories ( such as Alice in Wonderland ).
During his idiosyncratic occupancy many famous people came to stay, such as H. G. Wells.
In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, reading such authors as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan of the Apes.
At the beginning of the 20th Century, there was a burst of scientific investigation into interplanetary travel, largely driven by the inspiration of fiction by writers such as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.
Then with the dawn of new technologies such as electricity, the telegraph, and new forms of powered transportation, writers including Jules Verne and H. G. Wells created a body of work that became popular across broad cross-sections of society.
The term " time machine ", coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle.
This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, and China Mieville.
Lacy began his career at sixteen playing Dixieland music with much older musicians such as Henry " Red " Allen, Pee Wee Russell, George " Pops " Foster and Zutty Singleton and then with Kansas City jazz players like Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, and Jimmy Rushing.
The term " time machine ", coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle.
During the final years of his life, he covered conflicts in Greece and lived in England with Cora, where he befriended writers such as Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells.
Lending institutions such as Wells Fargo have been shown to treat black mortgage applicants differently when they are buying homes in white neighborhoods than when buying homes in black neighborhoods.
Eugenics was a concept adhered to by many thinkers in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s, such as Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.
Frederick L. A. Grauer at Wells Fargo harnessed McQuown and Booth's indexing theories such that Wells Fargo's pension funds managed over $ 69 billion in 1989 and over $ 565 billion in 1998.
Early science fiction authors, such as Alexander Belyayev, Grigory Adamov, Vladimir Obruchev, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, stack to hard science fiction and regarded H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as examples to follow.
In 2010, adjacent to the Kroger, the second Publix was opened on Spout Springs Road, which has small shops around it being Pizza Hut, AT & T Store, Chase, Wells Fargo, Wilson Orthodontics, and many more shops coming soon such as Suntrust.
In the 21st century, Billings saw the development of operations centers in the city's business parks and downtown core by such national companies as GE, Wells Fargo and First Interstate Bank.
John Forest, Dean of Wells and a close friend of Beke's, donated such an amount that the College promised to recognise him as a co-founder ; it did not keep this promise.
Subsequently development and manufacturing activities were sold off to other companies and work moved to other towns such as Crawley and Wells.

Wells and could
Science fiction author H. G. Wells noted, " Pym tells what a very intelligent mind could imagine about the south polar region a century ago.
The years he spent in Southsea had been the most miserable of his life to that point, but his good fortune at securing a position at Midhurst Grammar School meant that Wells could continue his self-education in earnest.
" He had thought of using some of this material in a series of articles in the Pall Mall Gazette, until the publisher asked him if he could instead write a serial novel on the same theme ; Wells readily agreed, and was paid £ 100 ( equal to about £ today ) on its publication by Heinemann in 1895.
Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the world brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent " World Encyclopaedia " that could help world citizens make the best use of universal information resources and make the best contribution to world peace.
Wells saw the potential for world-altering impacts this technology could bring.
Denver pointed out that his contract stated he could have his name anywhere he wanted in the credits, so they could move it to the end credits along with Johnson and Wells.
At Tonbridge and Royal Tunbridge Wells, England, souvenir " Tunbridge wares "— small boxes and the like — made from the mid-18th century onwards, were veneered with panels of minute wood mosaics, usually geometric, but which could include complicated subjects like landscapes.
A 1984 study conducted by Rosemary Wells revealed that most, 74 percent of those surveyed, believed the tooth fairy to be female, while 12 percent believed the tooth fairy to be neither male nor female and 8 percent believed the tooth fairy could be either male or female.
In his Galaxy Five-Star Shelf column of December, 1954, he states, "... I actually did not become an earnest devotee of the form until 1944, about a year before the Atomic Age actually opened .... The first item I remember reading that could be classified as science fiction was H. G. Wells ' Men Like Gods, back in 1924 when I was a college sophomore.
In 1895, The Time Machine by H. G. Wells used time as an additional “ dimension ” in this sense, taking the four-dimensional model of classical physics and interpreting time as a space-like dimension in which humans could travel with the right equipment.
Henman's next tournament was the first ATP Masters Series event of the year ; at the Indian Wells he reached the quarter-final after receiving a bye ( meaning he could skip the first round ).
Wells ' accusations were part of larger African-American critique of the temperance movement, which had always focused on post-Reconstruction blacks as a special class, with the idea that black people, like children, could not be expected to behave responsibly if left to their own devices and were just problems waiting to happen, and therefore needed to be protected from negative influences.
James D. G. Dunn addressed Wells ' statement and stated that he knew of no other scholar that shared that view, and most other scholars had other and more plausible explanations for the fact that Paul did not include a narrative of the life of Jesus in his letters, which were primarily written as religious documents rather than historical chronicles at a time when the life story of Jesus could have been well known within the early Church.
After having her second child, Wells stepped out of her touring and public life for a time, as she could no longer balance her job with her family.
Her intentions were to raise money and expose the United States problem with lynching, but Wells was paid so little that she could barely pay her travel expenses.
With Ivy living in Tunbridge Wells and the children at school, Edgar could finally concentrate on his writing and from 1918 drew closer to the intelligent, ever more capable Violet.
H. G. Wells noted that " Pym tells what a very intelligent mind could imagine about the south polar region a century ago ".
" Wells attempts to show how political, social, and religious differences could be reconciled, resulting in a more unified, inter-cooperating human race.
Children could travel unaccompanied with their trunks by rail to their boarding schools near the stations in Great Malvern, Malvern Wells, and Malvern Link.
Writer Zeb Wells has stated while he has no immediate plans to explore Sam's immortality further, he would not rule out the possibility if it could add to a potential story.
Through this Act, Virginia was designated the " First Military District " in 1868, and military commander John Schofield replaced Pierpont with Henry H. Wells until state delegates could write and enact a new constitution could be enacted.
Dudley North ’ s physician claimed that the waters contained ‘ vitriol ’ and the waters of Tunbridge Wells could cure:

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