Wilson ( one of the two co-founders of the r / K selection theory which Rushton uses ) was quoted as having said about him:

Wilson uses tariff, currency and anti-trust laws to prime the pump and get the economy working in a 1913 political cartoon

* December 26 – United States president Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U. S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, hoping to more efficiently transport troops and materials for the war effort.

Wilson prefers and uses the term consilience to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor.

An arguable exception is the Wilson cloud chamber, which uses, in nuclear physics experiments, an extremely brief state of " supersaturation " to accomplish its function.

In the season ten episode " Icarus ", Clark uses a crystal of El to send Slade Wilson to the Zone.

Carlos uses Ludwig Drums, Zildjian cymbals, Remo & Ludwig drumheads, Ludwig & DW hardware, Pro-Mark signature drumsticks, and Wilson gloves.

The movie features the Owen Wilson character interacting with the likes of Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and uses the phrase " a moveable feast " on two occasions.

Scientists observing the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in 1946 at Bikini Atoll named that transitory cloud a " Wilson cloud " because of its similarity to a Wilson cloud chamber ; the cloud chamber uses condensation from a rapid pressure drop to mark the tracks of electrically charged subatomic particles.

The Carnie Wilson ( and more currently, Sherri Shepherd )- hosted version uses an updated looping version of the classic theme composed by Lewis Flinn.

Wilson HS baseball now uses the ball field for its ' home games.

The simplest " Wilson action " uses only the 1 × 1 Wilson loop, and differs from the continuum action by " lattice artifacts " proportional to the small lattice spacing.

Wilson uses part of this quotation at the front of his novel.

That night, Paul uses his fake ID at the hospital and confronts Wilson.

Visually showing words is another method Wilson uses to show the beauty of language.

In the same way an artist uses positive and negative space, Wilson uses noise and silence.

Another technique Wilson uses is that of what words can mean to a particular character.

* Wolseley UK, based in Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, uses the following brands: Bathstore, Brooks, Broughton Crangrove, Galley Matrix, Climate Centre, Drain Centre, Heat Merchants, Nevill Long, Parts Centre, Pipe Centre, Plumb Centre, William Wilson, Unifix ( UK ), Wolseley Ireland and Tubs & Tiles.

* December 26-United States President Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to nationalize American railroads under the United States Railroad Administration during World War I.

The Red Skull uses the Cosmic Cube, a creation that allows its user to alter reality, to mentally fuse Wilson with Redwing, creating a " super-normal mental link " that would, with time and concentration, give Wilson broad powers over all birds.

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

In 2006 the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office ( 1974 – 76 ).

After his term as sheriff ended, Cleveland returned to private practice, opening a law firm with his friends Lyman K. Bass and Wilson S. Bissell.

The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.

Coauthor Wilson later acknowledged the term meme as the best label for the fundamental unit of cultural inheritance in his 1998 book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, which elaborates upon the fundamental role of memes in unifying the natural and social sciences.

An important theoretical notion concerning the final term of the above Lagrangian is the Wilson loop variable.

A cockfight is a contest held in a ring called a cockpit between two gamecocks or cocks, with the first use of the word gamecock ( denoting use of the cock in game, sport, pastime or entertainment ) appearing in 1646. after the term “ cock of the game ” used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the secular sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607.

The first person in the Anglo-American tradition to use the term " social geography " was George Wilson Hoke, whose paper The Study of Social Geography was published in 1907, yet there is no indication it had any academic impact.

As a way to persuade her boss, Geri ( Kathy Najimy ), to accept her as a partner, Mary pursues and is hired by catering heiress, Fran Donolly ( Bridgette Wilson ) to plan her society wedding to long term boyfriend ‘ Eddie ’.

An ideological rift developed between the two men during their first term, leading Wilson to limit Marshall's influence in the administration, and his brand of humor caused Wilson to move Marshall's office away from the White House.

During Marshall's second term he delivered morale-boosting speeches across the nation during World War I and became the first vice president to hold cabinet meetings, which he did while Wilson was in Europe.

Wilson began to recover by the end of 1919, but remained secluded for the remainder of his term, steadfast in his refusal or inability to accept changes to the treaty.

In his first term as President, Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reforms.

Historian John M. Cooper argues that, in his first term, Wilson successfully pushed a legislative agenda that few presidents have equaled, and remained unmatched up until the New Deal.

During his term in office, Wilson gave a well-known Flag Day speech that fueled the wave of anti-German sentiment sweeping the country in 1917 – 18.

** U. S. President Woodrow Wilson begins his second term.

W. V. Quine argued for a Coherentist approach to science, as do E O Wilson and Kenneth Craik, though neither use the term " Coherentism " to describe their views.

In its present connotation, the term “ ventral striatum ” was introduced in 1975 by Heimer and Wilson to differentiate it from the dorsal, sensorimotor-related part of the striatum ( i. e., the caudate-putamen complex ).

Another major controversy of the first Wilson term was the decision that the government could not fulfil its long-held promise to raise the school leaving age to 16, because of the investment required in infrastructure, such as extra classrooms and teachers.

Altogether, the increases made in pensions and other benefits during Wilson ’ s first year in office were the largest ever real term increases carried out up until that point.

A long term addition of 9 shillings ( which was subsequently increased to 10 shillings ) a week was provided for the allowances of all pensioners and for the long term sick, while the real value of most existing benefits was increased, ( such as family allowances, which were substantially raised in 1967 and 1968 ) with benefits rising at roughly the same rate as salaries over the course of the First Wilson Government, while family allowances were significantly increased.