Ingersoll

[ ing-ger-sawl, -sol, -suhl ]

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Ingersoll shut down the Bryan factory and moved the work to North Carolina, where union protections were weaker, and to plants in India and China.

Others, like Daquan, came from the Ingersoll/Whitman projects in Fort Greene.

But despite the influence he wielded in his lifetime, Ingersoll today has been all but forgotten.

Early in life, Robert Ingersoll, talented orator and “self-made American achiever,” had ambitions to hold public office.

“My main function was to take people out on walks with chimps—famous people, mostly,” said Ingersoll.

There, Nim met Bob Ingersoll, a high-spirited University of Oklahoma student who worked at the facility.

I could never discover from his conversation or writings that he had read a line of Shakespeare—the god of Colonel Ingersoll.

It is regrettable that God did not possess the magnanimity of an Ingersoll and make health contagious instead of disease.

Hence the Ingersoll Company developed a sort of radium coating for their dials.

Ingersoll once said that in replying to Gladstone he felt like a man who had been guilty of cruelty to children.

Yet Ingersoll was surely lacking in the passion for truth that characterized Huxley.

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