James Weddell was a British explorer and seal hunter who set a record for navigation into the Antarctic and for whom the Weddell Sea is named. Weddell commanded the sealing brig “Jane” on three Antarctic voyages, the success of the first (1819–21) permitting him to buy a share in the vessel. On the

India: The early Congress movement: Sir William Wedderburn (1838–1918), Gokhale’s closest British adviser and himself later elected twice to serve as president of the Congress, and William Wordsworth, principal of Elphinstone College, both appeared as observers. Most Britons in India, however, either ignored the Congress Party and its resolutions as…

Otto Weddigen was a German submarine commander whose feat of sinking three British armoured cruisers in about an hour, during the second month of World War I, made him one of the most famous of submarine heroes. Weddigen entered the German navy in 1901 and participated from the beginning in the

Western dance: Jewish dance: Weddings provided another important occasion for ritual dancing. Dancing with the bride was considered an act of devotion, and the officiating rabbi always complied with pleasure. During the Diaspora of the early Christian Era many of the ritual dances disappeared, but the bridal dance continued…

Ang Lee: …Pushing Hands), Hsi Yen (1993; The Wedding Banquet), and Yinshi nan nu (1994; Eat Drink Man Woman). After earning international acclaim for the latter two movies, Lee was chosen to direct a screen adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility (1995). The film—which starred Emma Thompson, Kate

Laura Nyro: …notably the Fifth Dimension (“Wedding Bell Blues” and “Stoned Soul Picnic”), Barbra Streisand (“Stoney End”), Three Dog Night (“Eli’s Coming”), and Blood, Sweat and Tears (“And When I Die”). A wayward yet reclusive artist, Nyro resisted pressure to streamline her songs for mass consumption. She was shaken after being…

Marc Chagall: Late career of Marc Chagall: …again, as the bride in The Wedding Candles (1945) and Nocturne (1947).

Bradley Cooper: …in such buddy movies as Wedding Crashers (2005) and Failure to Launch (2006). The films raised Cooper’s profile, and in 2009 he scored his breakthrough with the highly lucrative The Hangover, which centres on a group of men who search for their lost friend after waking from a bachelor party…

Western painting: Low Countries: …the months and recurs in The Wedding Dance (1566) and Peasant Dance (c. 1568) and Peasant Wedding (1568).

Today in History—April 18: How Grace Kelly Became a Princess: …one of the most iconic wedding dresses of all time: an elaborate high-necked dress made of yards of Belgian lace, silk, and seed pearls. As with her suit the day before, the gown was the work of Helen Rose, a costume designer who had won an Academy Award for her…

Brazilian literature: The theatre: …drama Vestido de noiva (1943; The Wedding Dress), with its revolutionary staging and open treatment of sexuality, became one of Brazil’s most important dramas. Concerned with issues of class, machismo, sexual deviancy, incest, violence, and abortion, Rodrigues’s audacious plays have been praised for their different narrative levels. Rodrigues was a…

Today in History—April 18: How Grace Kelly Became a Princess: …one of the most iconic wedding dresses of all time: an elaborate high-necked dress made of yards of Belgian lace, silk, and seed pearls. As with her suit the day before, the gown was the work of Helen Rose, a costume designer who had won an Academy Award for her…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: … queen Titania, and the “Wedding March,” written to accompany the multiple weddings at the end of the play, recaptured the magical spirit of the overture. The complete set also includes a nimble fairies’ scherzo, a haunting nocturne rich with horns, a buoyant clowns’ dance, and a farewell finale. The…

King Vidor: Early sound features: The elaborate romance The Wedding Night (1935) was made for producer Samuel Goldwyn, who intended it to be a showcase for Anna Sten (in her third American movie), a Russian-born actress he unsuccessfully tried to turn into the next Greta Garbo. Despite the presence of Gary Cooper, the…

Rembrandt: Night Watch: The Wedding of Samson (1638) can be seen as Rembrandt’s attempt to surpass Leonardo in the challenge set by this compositional problem and as an effort to accomplish a much livelier scene than Leonardo had achieved in his Last Supper.

al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ: The Wedding of Zein & Other Stories) evoke the warmth, compassion, humour, and sadness of traditional Sudanese Arabic life, examining authority and unwritten codes through its beautifully structured narrative rhythms. In the 1970s he wrote two short volumes, translated into English as Bandarshah, and later…

Brian De Palma: Early work: …Cynthia Monroe) the feature-length film The Wedding Party (1964; released 1969). The comedy featured early career performances by Robert De Niro and Jill Clayburgh. De Palma’s first solo features were Murder à la Mod (1968) and Greetings (1968), the latter of which was set in Greenwich Village and starred De…

Jennifer Lopez: Selena and film stardom: …she gained widespread praise for The Wedding Planner (2001), her successful first attempt at romantic comedy. That release was quickly followed by the romantic drama Angel Eyes. These films paired her with many of the most bankable and respected leading actors of the 1990s and early 2000s, including George Clooney,…

How Did the Tradition of Wedding Rings Start?: …of offering a woman a ring as a promise to marry. The engagement ring, however, wasn’t always seen in this way. Its history, though obscure, spans thousands of years, shifting from a practical token of ownership to an expression of love and commitment.

Drew Barrymore: Stardom: …to romantic comedy, starring in The Wedding Singer as the humble waitress Julia, who is torn between her rude fiancé and the funny and considerate wedding singer (played by Adam Sandler) who befriends her. She continued as a romantic lead in Ever After (1998), a Cinderella-like story, and Never Been…

Robert Altman: M*A*S*H and the 1970s: A Wedding (1978) revolved around dozens of characters, and the allegorical science-fiction mystery Quintet (1979) starred Newman. Neither H.E.A.L.T.H. (1979), despite a cast that included James Garner, Carol Burnett, Lauren Bacall, Glenda Jackson, and Alfre Woodard, nor A Perfect Couple (1979) were

Olympic Snowboarder Wanted for Drug Trafficking: Ryan James Wedding was not accused of doping during his snowboarding career, but the Canadian Olympian is now on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for drug trafficking.

Stanisław Wyspiański: Wesele (1901; The Wedding, filmed in 1973 by Andrzej Wajda), his greatest and most popular play, premiered in 1901. Its story was suggested by the actual marriage of the poet Lucjan Rydel to a peasant girl in a village near Kraków. The marriage is used symbolically to…

Igor Stravinsky: Life and career: The Wedding, a ballet cantata begun by Stravinsky in 1914 but completed only in 1923 after years of uncertainty over its instrumentation, is based on the texts of Russian village wedding songs. The “farmyard burlesque” Renard (1916) is similarly based on Russian folk idioms, while…

Dorothy West: …book that was to become The Wedding. In the early 1990s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who had seen West’s work in the Gazette and who was working as an editor at Doubleday in New York, encouraged her to finish the book but did not live to see it published. West dedicated…

Sarah Weddington was an American lawyer, speaker, educator, and writer best known for her role as the plaintiff’s counsel in the landmark case Roe v. Wade, which, in 1973, overturned antiabortion statutes in Texas and made abortion legal throughout the United States. Weddington was raised in a

Frank Wedekind was a German actor and dramatist who became an intense personal force in the German artistic world on the eve of World War I. A direct forebear of the modern Theatre of the Absurd, Wedekind employed episodic scenes, fragmented dialogue, distortion, and caricature in his dramas, which

Frank Wedekind was a German actor and dramatist who became an intense personal force in the German artistic world on the eve of World War I. A direct forebear of the modern Theatre of the Absurd, Wedekind employed episodic scenes, fragmented dialogue, distortion, and caricature in his dramas, which

Wedekindellina, genus of fusulinid foraminiferans, an extinct group of protozoans that possessed a hard shell of relatively large size; they are especially characteristic as fossils in deposits from the Pennsylvanian Subperiod (318 million to 299 million years ago) of midcontinental North America.

Herman, Count Wedel-Jarlsberg was a Norwegian patriot and statesman. He was the leading advocate of Norwegian-Swedish union in the last years of the Danish-Norwegian state and the first Norwegian governor (statholder) in the Norwegian-Swedish union (1814–1905). Early in the 19th century, as the

Herman, Count Wedel-Jarlsberg was a Norwegian patriot and statesman. He was the leading advocate of Norwegian-Swedish union in the last years of the Danish-Norwegian state and the first Norwegian governor (statholder) in the Norwegian-Swedish union (1814–1905). Early in the 19th century, as the

Albert Coady Wedemeyer was an American military leader who was the principal author of the 1941 Victory Program, a comprehensive war plan devised for the U.S. entry into World War II. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1919), Wedemeyer was assigned to Tientsin, China,

wedge, in mechanics, device that tapers to a thin edge, usually made of metal or wood, and used for splitting, lifting, or tightening, as to secure a hammer head onto its handle. Along with the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, and screw, the wedge is considered one of the five simple machines. The

permafrost: Ice wedges: …is that formed in large ice wedges or masses with parallel or subparallel foliation structures. Most foliated ice masses occur as wedge-shaped, vertical, or inclined sheets or dikes 2.5 cm (about 1 inch) to 3 metres wide and 0.3 to 9 metres (1 to 29.5 feet) high when viewed in…

Finnish literature: The early 20th century: …of left-wing writers known as Kiila (“The Wedge”) was formed, most of their important work appearing after the war (e.g., Elvi Sinervo’s novel Viljami Vaihdokas [1946]). Haanpää’s work also expressed left-wing ideas, as did that of the period’s most notable dramatist, Hella Wuolijoki, who collaborated in 1940 and 1941 with…

Coleoptera: Annotated classification: Family Ripiphoridae (wedge-shaped beetles) About 400 species, many with specialized parasitic habits on other insects; complicated life cycle; examples Pelecotoma, Metoecus. Family Salpingidae (narrow-waisted bark beetles) Superficial resemblance to Carabidae (ground beetles); adults and larvae predatory; adults

kangaroo: Common features: The wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) is one of the macropodids’ few natural predators.

Bull Terrier, breed of dog developed in 19th-century England from the Bulldog, the White English Terrier (a breed now extinct), and the Dalmatian; other breeds including the Spanish pointer, foxhound, and Greyhound may also have been incorporated. The Bull Terrier was developed for dogfighting pits

Marsha Blackburn is an American politician elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2018. She is the first woman to have been elected senator for Tennessee and began representing the state in that body in 2019. In 2024 Blackburn comfortably won reelection against Democratic challenger Gloria

Wedgwood ware, English stoneware, including creamware, black basaltes, and jasperware, made by the Staffordshire factories originally established by Josiah Wedgwood at Burslem, at Etruria, and finally at Barlaston, all in Staffordshire. In the decade of its first production, the 1760s, Wedgwood

Josiah Wedgwood was an English pottery designer and manufacturer, outstanding in his scientific approach to pottery making and known for his exhaustive researches into materials, logical deployment of labour, and sense of business organization. The youngest child of the potter Thomas Wedgwood,

history of photography: Photogenic drawing: …son of the famous potter Josiah Wedgwood, reported his experiments in recording images on paper or leather sensitized with silver nitrate. He could record silhouettes of objects placed on the paper, but he was not able to make them permanent. Sir Humphry Davy published a paper in the Journal of…

pottery: 18th-century developments: …produced a glazed version called Wedgwoodarbeiten. Less influential was the red stoneware (rosso antico), which sometimes had an enamelled decoration of classical subjects, and caneware, a buff stoneware.

Tim Burton: …television, directing several episodes of Wednesday (2022– ), a comedy-horror series inspired by the TV show The Addams Family (1964–66).

Wednesday, fourth day of the week

Cesar Romero: …appeared with Shirley Temple in Wee Willie Winkie (1937) and The Little Princess (1939) and with Sonja Henie in Happy Landing (1938) and Wintertime (1943). Romero was also featured in such musicals as The Great American Broadcast (1941), Weekend in Havana (1941), and

There was much outrage and confusion in 2006 when Pluto lost its status as our solar system’s ninth planet. But we didn’t just lose a planet—we gained five dwarf planets! The term dwarf planet is defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as "a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around

weed, general term for any plant growing where it is not wanted. Ever since humans first attempted the cultivation of plants, they have had to fight the invasion by weeds into areas chosen for crops. Some unwanted plants later were found to have virtues not originally suspected and so were removed

marijuana, crude drug composed of the leaves and flowers of plants in the genus Cannabis. The term marijuana is sometimes used interchangeably with cannabis; however, the latter refers specifically to the plant genus, which comprises C. sativa and, by some classifications, C. indica and C.

weed: Modern weed control can be classified as mechanical, chemical, or biological.

Conrad Detrez: …is L’Herbe à brûler (1978; A Weed for Burning), in which he recounts with carnivalesque glee the fatal return of his disillusioned protagonist—who has wandered for years in South America—to a Europe sapped of its revolutionary zeal. Criticism of leftist intelligentsia continued to be a theme in Detrez’s later work.…

Thurlow Weed was an American journalist and politician who helped form the Whig Party in New York. Weed learned the printer’s trade, worked on various upstate New York newspapers, and became a leader in the Anti-Masonic Party (1828). When the Masons forced him out of his management of the Rochester

Harriette Arnow: Arnow’s other novels include The Weedkiller’s Daughter (1970), about an alienated family in a Detroit suburb, and The Kentucky Trace (1974), in which a Revolutionary War soldier seeks his family. In the early 1960s Arnow published two books of social history about the pioneers who settled the Cumberland Plateau…

encyclopaedia: Children’s encyclopaedias: It was based on Weedon’s Modern Encyclopedia, whose copyright had been bought by Britannica. Renamed Britannica Junior Encyclopædia in 1963 (and revised until 1983), it was specifically designed for children in elementary-school grades. One of its features was its ready-reference index volume, which combined short fact entries with indexing…

Richard Dreyfuss: 1990s and beyond: …other television shows, among them Weeds, Parenthood, and Your Family or Mine. He portrayed corrupt investment manager Bernie Madoff in the television miniseries Madoff (2016).

sea dragon: …or common, sea dragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) has the largest geographic range, which extends from Western Australia to Tasmania and New South Wales. The leafy, or Glauert’s, sea dragon (Phycodurus eques) is found from Western Australia to western Victoria, whereas the ruby sea dragon

Weegee was a photojournalist noted for his gritty yet compassionate images of the aftermath of New York street crimes and disasters. Weegee was born Usher Fellig in Złoczew, Austria-Hungary [now in Zolochiv, Ukraine]. His father, Bernard Fellig, immigrated to the United States in 1906 and was

Wrigley Field, baseball stadium in Chicago that, since 1916, has been home to the Cubs, the city’s National League (NL) team. Built in 1914, it is one of the oldest and most iconic Major League Baseball parks in the United States. The stadium was designed by brothers Zachary Taylor Davis and

Wrigley Field: …Weeghman Park after its owner, Charles Weeghman, and had a seating capacity of 14,000.

Weehawken, township, Hudson county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies 5 miles (8 km) north of Jersey City and opposite New York City on the Hudson River. An industrial port and railroad centre, it is the western portal of the Lincoln Tunnel. It was settled by the Dutch about 1647 when Maryn

week, period of seven days, a unit of time artificially devised with no astronomical basis. The week’s origin is generally associated with the ancient Jews and the biblical account of the Creation, according to which God laboured for six days and rested on the seventh. Evidence indicates, however,

Maeve Binchy: The posthumously published A Week in Winter (2012) chronicles the vicissitudes of an Irish innkeeper and those of her guests.

Chris Rock: …he appeared in the comedies The Week Of, which also starred Sandler, and Nobody’s Fool. That year the comedy special Chris Rock: Tamborine debuted on Netflix. He then played a 1950s mob boss in season four (2020) of the TV anthology series Fargo. In Spiral (2021), part of the Saw…

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, autobiographical narrative by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1849. This Transcendental work is a philosophical treatise couched as a travel adventure. Written mainly during the two years he lived in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts

Jean-Luc Godard: Breathless and filmmaking style and themes: Weekend, also made in 1967, was a hard-hitting denunciation of modern French society.

Beryl Bainbridge: In A Weekend with Claud (1967), an experimental novel, the titular hero is a predatory, violent man. Another Part of the Wood (1968) concerns a child’s death resulting from adult neglect. Harriet Said (1972) deals with two teenage girls who seduce a man and murder his…

Weeki Wachee Spring, spring and tourist attraction in Hernando county, west-central Florida, U.S., 55 miles (90 km) north of St. Petersburg. The spring, with a measured depth of more than 250 feet (75 metres), produces a crystal clear water flow of more than 22,460,000 cubic feet (636,000 cubic

D.H. Lawrence: Youth and early career: …in love and eloped with Frieda Weekley (née von Richthofen), the aristocratic German wife of a professor at Nottingham. The couple went first to Germany and then to Italy, where Lawrence completed Sons and Lovers. They were married in England in 1914 after Weekley’s divorce.

history of photography: Photojournalism: …where he established the magazines Weekly Illustrated (1934) and Picture Post (1938). Staff photographers on both magazines included old colleagues also forced from Germany, such as Man and Kurt Hutton. They and other contributors were encouraged to develop the technique and pictorial style of taking photographs by using available light—i.e.,…

Hezekiah Niles: …Register (later to be called Niles’ Weekly Register), which he edited and published until 1836 and which became one of the most influential papers in the United States. Niles favoured protective tariffs and the gradual abolition of slavery, and he ceaselessly propagandized for both these causes. Because his articles were…

The Weekly Standard, American political opinion magazine founded in 1995 by William Kristol, Fred Barnes, and John Podhoretz with financial backing from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. One of the young writers on the staff of the magazine in 1995 was American conservative pundit and popular Fox

National Enquirer: …included a sister tabloid, the Weekly World News (known for even more sensational stories, such as those of alien visitations, and regularly featuring “news updates” of a quasi-human creature named “Bat Boy”). In 1994 the company—which by then included a range of other publications—changed its name to American Media, Inc.…

The Weeknd is a Canadian rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter best known for his explicit songs about sex and drugs, many of which are autobiographical, and for his soaring falsetto and its singular tremolo. Tesfaye’s mother and grandmother immigrated in the 1980s to Canada from Ethiopia, and his

Shavuot, Jewish holiday that is associated with agriculture, pilgrimage to the Temple of Jerusalem, and Moses’ reception of the Torah on Mount Sinai. Shavuot (Hebrew: “weeks”) occurs the day following the elapsing of 49 days (seven weeks) after the second day of Passover. It is celebrated for two

Thomas Weelkes was an English organist and composer, one of the most important composers of madrigals. Nothing definite is known of Weelkes’s early life, but his later career suggests that he came from southern England. He may have been the Thomas Wikes who was a chorister at Winchester College

Carrie Mae Weems is an American artist and photographer known for creating installations that combine photography, audio, and text to examine many facets of contemporary American life. A prolific artist, she works in a variety of media and has expanded her practice to include community outreach.

Mason Locke Weems was an American clergyman, itinerant book agent, and fabricator of the story of George Washington’s chopping down the cherry tree. This fiction was inserted into the fifth edition (1806) of Weems’s book The Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington (1800). Weems was ordained

Jan Baptist Weenix was a conventional painter of Italianate landscapes, fanciful seascapes, still lifes with dead game, and portraits. Jan Micker was his first master. He later studied under Abraham Bloemaert in Utrecht and Claes Moeyaert in Amsterdam. In 1643 Weenix travelled to Italy and stayed

Jan Baptist Weenix was a conventional painter of Italianate landscapes, fanciful seascapes, still lifes with dead game, and portraits. Jan Micker was his first master. He later studied under Abraham Bloemaert in Utrecht and Claes Moeyaert in Amsterdam. In 1643 Weenix travelled to Italy and stayed

Ngugi wa Thiong’o: His popular Weep Not, Child (1964) was the first major novel in English by an East African. As he became sensitized to the effects of colonialism in Africa, Ngugi adopted his traditional name and wrote in the Bantu language of Kenya’s Kikuyu people.

Western sculpture: High Gothic: …in niches—figures generally known as weepers, since they often represented members of the family who might be presumed to be in mourning. Later, in the early 14th century, the first representations appear of the heavily cloaked and cowled professional mourners who were normally employed to follow the coffin in a…

capuchin monkey: albifrons), and weeper (C. nigrivittatus) capuchins, in which the crown bears a smooth, dark, and more or less pointed cap. The name black-capped capuchin has been applied to both C. apella and C. nigrivittatus.The genus Cebus belongs to the family Cebidae.

infancy: Crying is basic to infants from birth, and the cooing sounds they have begun making by about eight weeks progress to babbling and ultimately become part of meaningful speech. Virtually all infants begin to comprehend some words several months before they themselves speak their first…

Ficus: Major species: lyrata), the weeping fig (F. benjamina), and some climbing species such as the climbing fig (F. pumila) are also popular ornamentals.

forsythia: Major species: Weeping forsythia (F. suspensa), also from China, has hollow pendulous stems about 3 metres long and golden-yellow flowers. Common forsythia (F. ×intermedia), a hybrid between green-stem forsythia and weeping forsythia, has arching stems and grows up to 3 metres (10 feet) tall with bright yellow…

love grass: trichodes), and weeping love grass (E. curvula) are forage species in southern North America. Weeping love grass, native to South Africa, was introduced elsewhere as an ornamental and later was used to reclaim abandoned or eroded areas formerly under cultivation. Stink grass (E. cilianensis), a weedy, coarse…

willow: …with drooping habit are called weeping willows, especially S. babylonica and its varieties from East Asia. From northern Asia, S. matsudana has sharply toothed leaves, whitish beneath. One variety, S. matsudana tortuosa, is called corkscrew willow for its twisted branches.

Finno-Ugric religion: Cult authorities: …controller of the rites); professional weeping women (the “vocalists,” especially of the cult of the dead but also of weddings, who were the verbal expressers of the content of the ritual); and the masters of ceremonies at weddings. The shaman had many and various tasks in Arctic regions, but farther…

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai film director, writer, and installation artist whose preference for unconventional storytelling usually relegated his work to the art house. Nevertheless, his style also has been described as joyful, spontaneous, playful, unpretentious, and gentle.

Harry M. Weese was an American architect of the Chicago school who designed the subway system in Washington, D.C.—considered one of the most remarkable public works projects of the 20th century—and who played a prominent role in the planning and architecture of Chicago. Educated at the

weever, any of four species of small marine fishes of the family Trachinidae (order Perciformes). Weevers are long-bodied fishes that habitually bury themselves in the sand. They have large, upwardly slanted mouths and eyes near the top of the head. There is a sharp spine on each gill cover; these

weevil, (family Curculionidae), true weevil of the insect order Coleoptera (beetles and weevils). Curculionidae is one of the largest coleopteran families (about 40,000 species). Most weevils have long, distinctly elbowed antennae that may fold into special grooves on the snout. Many have no wings,

Buddy Holly: Legacy: …last minute; and rock band Weezer, whose song “Buddy Holly” (1994) has been called one of the greatest songs of the 1990s. Holly’s life, music, and death inspired the biopic The Buddy Holly Story (1978) and the Broadway musical Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (1990).

Lil Wayne is an American rapper who became one of the top-selling artists in hip-hop in the early 21st century. Born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., he grew up in New Orleans’s impoverished 17th Ward. There he came to the attention of Cash Money Records head Bryan Williams, and he soon became a

World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), international fellowship of organizations that hold biblically conservative interpretations of the Christian faith. From 1846 until the mid-1900s, the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) was primarily the venture of its founding member, the British Evangelical

The World Economic Forum is an international organization that convenes political leaders, business executives, policymakers, and representatives of civil society to discuss global economic, political, and social issues. It is best known for its annual winter meeting held in Davos, Switzerland. The

Bahrain: 1999–2010: Reforms of Sheikh Hamad ibn ʿIsa Al Khalifah: The Islamist Shiʿi party al-Wefaq, known for its criticism of the Sunni-dominated government, became the largest party in the lower house that same year, though its coalition remained a few seats shy of a majority.

Bernard J. Wefers, Sr. was an American sprinter who held the world record for the 200-metre dash (straightaway; 1896–1921, though tied by five other runners) and for the 220-yard dash (straightaway; 1896–1921, also tied by the same five runners). Wefers ran for the New York Athletic Club and also

Bernard J. Wefers, Sr. was an American sprinter who held the world record for the 200-metre dash (straightaway; 1896–1921, though tied by five other runners) and for the 220-yard dash (straightaway; 1896–1921, also tied by the same five runners). Wefers ran for the New York Athletic Club and also

filling, in woven fabrics, the widthwise, or horizontal, yarns carried over and under the warp, or lengthwise, yarns and running from selvage to selvage. Filling yarns are generally made with less twist than are warp yarns because they are subjected to less strain in the weaving process and