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Wheelock

American  
[hwee-lok, wee-] / ˈʰwi lɒk, ˈwi- /

noun

  1. Eleazar, 1711–79, U.S. clergyman and educator: founded Dartmouth College.


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“My prediction is that a more sophisticated form of Nasdaq will become the new central marketplace,” Wheelock Whitney, president of the Investment Bankers Association of America, told the group, according to The Wall Street Journal on April 5, 1971.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the Wheelock Hall farm shop, a man told me the standing charge on his energy bills had gone up and his car insurance had doubled.

From BBC

Another of the experts, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., former curator of northern Baroque paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, said in an interview that he had been quickly convinced of Rembrandt’s authorship.

From New York Times

“I thought that the light elements in the painting and the way it flowed in made a lot of sense in terms of the way Rembrandt was working,” Wheelock said.

From New York Times

"I feel like it is shortsighted, that going back to the status quo, which wasn't working, which isn't working in cities similar to Portland across the country, and is not going to get us to the solutions," Wheelock said.

From Salon