Briggs
[ brigz ]
/ brɪgz /
noun
Henry,1561–1630, English mathematician.
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Mixner himself went to then California Gov. Ronald Reagan to seek his support in nixing the Briggs Amendment.
The notion of anarchy so appalled the conservative Reagan, he came out against Briggs, and it was defeated.
But the Supreme Court agreed to hear Briggs, which it then combined into Brown.
Then in 1951 came his famous dissent in Briggs v. Elliott, in which he wrote the sentence I quote above.
“I was warned not to go into the Tropicana, very, very severely,” Briggs once told me.
Here we found Briggs waiting for us, with a face the expression of which told its tidings without words.
Briggs touched his hat,—in the same instant he winked at Louise, and then the carriage rolled away.
If you be head of Briggs and Cater you will come to give an edict to one of your firm.
If|Lord Dunsany [Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron] Came the barefoot slatting of a Malay, pad-pad-padding aft, and the sound of a soft-voiced: Captain Briggs, sar?
While this was going on, Briggs's horse was shot and he found himself on foot, with three confederate prisoners on his hands.
British Dictionary definitions for briggs
noun
Henry . 1561–1631, English mathematician: introduced common logarithms
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