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  • Media outlets ranging ranging from BBC called Bruhn's home and cell phone and sents him emails.

    SplicedFeed 2009

  • Or how about the ancient Greeks, whose metron, “measure,” cruised through Latin to Bruhn as meter?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Should it be Wilhelm Bruhn, the German inventor of the taxameter, a device that measured (the -meter part of the compound) distance or time, and calculated thereon a charge (taxa-)?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Should it be Wilhelm Bruhn, the German inventor of the taxameter, a device that measured (the -meter part of the compound) distance or time, and calculated thereon a charge (taxa-)?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Or how about the ancient Greeks, whose metron, “measure,” cruised through Latin to Bruhn as meter?

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Some thirty years ago a physician (Wolf) and a sociologist (Bruhn) teamed up to explain why, in the town of Roseto, Pennsylvania, there was a group of poor Italian immigrants whose health and welfare were vastly better than their neighbors.

    Robert Fuller: Bleeding Heart Liberals Proven Right: Too Much Inequality Harms a Society 2009

  • When Bruhn and Wolf first presented their findings to the medical community, you can imagine the kind of skepticism they faced.

    'Outliers: The Story of Succes' 2008

  • This had happened more than fifty years ago but Bruhn still had a sense of amazement in his voice as he remembered what they found.

    'Outliers: The Story of Succes' 2008

  • "I hired medical students and sociology grad students as interviewers, and in Roseto we went house to house and talked to every person aged twenty one and over," Bruhn remembers.

    'Outliers: The Story of Succes' 2008

  • The architect of numerous firsts for Wisconsin, Alvarez became the first Badgers coach to win his finale since Milt Bruhn in 1966.

    USATODAY.com 2006

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