Weller

[ wel-er ]

/ ˈwɛl ər /

Thomas Huck·le

[huhk-uhl], /ˈhʌk əl/, 1915–2008, U.S. physician: Nobel Prize in medicine 1954.

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The savvy forger with Pappy empties to fill might get his hands on some Old Weller and present it as its more illustrious cousin.
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“I was blown back in my chair,” a female producer tells Weller.
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“I remember distinctly his response when I visited him and presented him with the files,” Weller told The Daily Beast.
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This young person is not only attached to your son, Mr. Weller, but your son is attached to her.'
The Pickwick Papers|Charles Dickens

The mail-service previously had been performed by Mr. Weller and his stage-coaches.
Toronto of Old|Henry Scadding
The elder Mrs. Weller's fatal cough was clearly a happy afterthought.
Hints to Pilgrims|Charles Stephen Brooks
Do you recollect anything particular happening on the morning when you were first engaged by the defendant; eh, Mr. Weller?
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
“Not by no means,” acquiesced Mr. Weller, affably but magisterially.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens

Weller

[ wĕl′ər ]

Thomas Huckle Born 1915

American microbiologist. He shared a 1954 Nobel Prize for work on the cultivation of the polio virus.