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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Sperry, Elmer Ambrose 1860-1930. American engineer and inventor of numerous electrical devices, including the gyrocompass, a nonmagnetic navigational aid (1910).
- Sperry, Roger Wolcott 1913-1994. American neurobiologist. He shared a 1981 Nobel Prize for studies of the organization and functioning of the brain.
WordNet 3.0
- n. United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930)
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“Spotlight will be on: John Dane III, competing with his son-in-law, Austin Sperry, in the Star class, is at his first Olympics after 40 years of trying to qualify.”
“Sperry is a media fellow at the Hoover Institution.”
“Parker's period as Vice President for Sales at Remington Rand and Sperry is the focus of the last third of the interview.”
“Peter Sperry is a former Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation”
“Rod Meade Sperry is the Shambhala Sun’s editor of web publications, and the brain behind TheWorstHorse. com, a site that has lovingly (and somewhat irreverently) documented the intersection of Buddhism, pop-culture, and subculture since 2005.”
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“The governess, however, came in almost immediately, and she had sent her to the telephone to summon help, calling Sperry first of all, and then the police.”
“I remember breaking up with one guy because he wore shorts with Sperry Top-Siders far too often.”
“People are much more risk-averse because that security blanket of insurance is lacking," says Christopher Sperry , a municipal portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton.”
The Wall Street Journal: How Long Will the Tax Break on Municipal Bonds Last?
“My phone started ringing off the hook with panicked business owners who wanted to sell before capital-gains rates went up," says Beatrice Mitchell , a principal at Sperry, Mitchell & Co., a boutique mergers firm in New York that says it has just had the best results in its 25-year history.”
The Wall Street Journal: Taxing Year Brings a Less-Taxing Year
“Yes | No | Report from Ken Sperry wrote 3 weeks 5 days ago”
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