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  Kress Inn - St. Norbert College
The Kress Inn is the area's newest all-suite hotel, and is located on the scenic St. Norbert College campus.
Offering distinctive service and quality accommodations, the Kress Inn is conveniently located in downtown De Pere, WI.
The Kress Inn is within walking distance to many area restaurants, attractions, shopping, and is just minutes from downtown Green Bay.
www.kressinn.com   (86 words)

  
  S. H. Kress & Co. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kress and Co. was the trading name of a chain of "five and dime" retail department stores in the United States, which operated from 1896 to 1981.
The Kress chain was known for the fine architecture of the stores, with a number of locations being hailed by architects for their design.
The Kress Foundation, a philanthropic organization promoting art, was established in 1929 and also survives the parent company.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kress   (264 words)

  
 Tiendas Kress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tiendas Kress is an important Puerto Rico chain of stores dedicated in particular to the sales of women's clothes.
Kress was one of the stores that opened at Plaza las Americas before the shopping center expanded into the Caribbean's largest mall in 1980.
Tiendas Kress was never affected by the economic problems that led to their parent company's demise in 1981.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tiendas_Kress   (145 words)

  
 The Pioneers : An Anthology : Wilhelm Kreß (Kress) (1836 - 1913)
Kress' opinion that water-trials should first be made in order to ascertain whether the motor, propellers, rudders, and other parts have been properly arranged and are trustworthy and perfectly efficient in operation.
Kress was a piano maker turned engineer, and in October 1901 the 68-year-old wannabe from Austria (his emperor was offering a big prize for the first powered flight) opened the throttle on his three-winged floatplane and accelerated out across the surface of a reservoir near Tulln.
Kress never made it off the water (into the air and the history books) because by some oversight his engine was nearly twice as heavy as he had specified.
www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/kress.html   (905 words)

  
 Paul Kress -+- News -+- May 12, 1999 -+- Vol. 70, Issue 24 -+- The Falcon On-Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kress used Thomas, from the Bible, as a model of what he believes students should strive to be.
Kress is currently on Sabbatical from King's High School in Shoreline, where he most recently served as dean of students and college counselor for seven years.
Kress says that with this, however, he plans not to compare his role with what Campus Life used to be.
www.spu.edu /depts/falcon/archive/may12-99/stories/kress.html   (941 words)

  
 FLYING MACHINES - Wilhelm Kress
Kress developed a propeller of considerable efficiency which was flexible enough to form its own shape, akin to that of an auger, when under a load.
Kress' Waterborne Aeroplane was a step-winged three-surface monoplane with a large horizontal tail and large rudders.
Kress had hoped to utilize a more powerful engine but, it's said, the expense of construction and the unavailability of an engine of the proper weight and power led Kress to use a less expensive, immediately available but considerably less powerful Daimler engine.
www.flyingmachines.org /whkr.html   (578 words)

  
 George Kress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kress was active in the business until 1935, but she continued to do some corporate work from her home.
Kress has held memberships in the Fibre Box Association; Folding Paper Box Association of America; and the American Forest and Paper Association (American Paper Institute).
The Kresses' son, James, is chairman of Green Bay Packaging and their other two children, Don and Marilyn, serve on the board.
www.paperhall.org /inductees/bios/96/kress.html   (649 words)

  
 Carl Kress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
From 1927-1929 Kress could be found in the bands of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Miff Mole and Red Nichols.
In the 1930's Kress had switched over to the guitar and beginning in 1932 recorded some of the finest duets in jazz guitar history with Eddie Lang and again in 1934 with Dick McDonough.
Throughout the 30's and 40's Kress maintained a somewhat low profile by playing in and around New York City as a radio and studio guitarist, and in the 1950's could be seen as the guitarist for the Garry Moore television show.
www.redhotjazz.com /kress.html   (221 words)

  
 Ralph Kress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kress argues, however, that in its original decision the Court did not in fact rule on his request for temporary total disability benefits.
Kress 1 was not a case in which a claimant merely sought to rescind a prior settlement and obtain medical benefits: Kress affirmatively asked the Court to award him retroactive and current temporary total disability benefits.
Kress 1 was not a case in which the Court bifurcated or deferred consideration of a request for temporary total disability benefits, and indeed Kress did not ask for bifurcation or postponement of that issue.
wcc.dli.state.mt.us /K/KRESS_R_DISMISS.htm   (1428 words)

  
 ARTS LIBRARY @ YALE
The Kress Fellowship is intended for a recent graduate from library school who wishes to pursue a career in art librarianship or visual resources curatorship.
Through this fellowship, the Kress Foundation seeks to achieve in the field of art librarianship what it has accomplished for art history and art conservation: ensuring the growth of the discipline by promoting the advancement of new professionals.
Kress Fellows have the opportunity to interact routinely with faculty, staff and students in distinguished Schools of Architecture, Art, and Drama; a nationally ranked department of the History of Art; and two outstanding university art museums, the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery.
www.library.yale.edu /art/kress.html   (378 words)

  
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Kress and Co. was aware of this function and erected signs in front of stores under construction urging, "Meet Your Friends at Kress." Newspaper advertisements coinciding with new store openings repeated the slogan.
Kress claimed to use more wattage than its competitors did in lighting its store interiors; combined with natural light from the mezzanine, this ensured a brighter selling floor.
Kress patented its design for a candy counter; which took pride of place against the wall near the store entrance.
www.nbm.org /blueprints/winter97/page2/page2.htm   (1473 words)

  
 Kress set to take seat - PittsburghLIVE.com
Kress, 33, of Shaler, is seeking to win a four-year term in the general election on Nov. 8 and is unopposed in today's Republican primary.
Kress said he wants to see if the county can raise money from advertising at county parks and perhaps by selling naming rights to parks and trails.
Kress is a partner in the law firm Weisel Xides and Foerster, where he does bankruptcy, trusts, estates and personal injury work.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/news/s_334915.html   (420 words)

  
 Kress Stores   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kress was probably fifth or sixth in the nation.
One of her key discoveries was that many records of the Kress architectural division, thought to have been discarded, still existed.
Kress stores served as city anchors, drawing urban, country and small-town people to their lunch counters and cash registers.
www.sandlapper.org /kress.htm   (1610 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: KRESS, TX
Kress, on U.S. Highway 87 in southern Swisher County, was originally named Wright, after a local rancher and preacher, when it was founded in 1890.
In 1915 the first garage and filling station was erected, a grain elevator was built, and a weekend rodeo was organized for local recreation.
During the history of Kress, the location of the main highway through town has shifted at least twice, compelling the business district to shift likewise.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/KK/hlk15.html   (465 words)

  
 National Building Museum: The Architectural Heritage of S. H. Kress & Co.
The S. Kress and Co. chain of five-and-dimes was one of the most successful retail operations of the twentieth century.
Kress architects were responsible for designing the exteriors, interiors, and structural systems of over 200 Kress stores and for supervising other designers who oversaw renovations.
The Kress logo was a perpetually distinctive element, prominently displayed high upon the building and its doors and windows.
www.nbm.org /Exhibits/past/2000_1996/Main_Street.html   (451 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Nancy Kress
Bio: Nancy Kress is one of the leading science fiction writers of the 1990's, with three Nebula awards and one Hugo award to her credit.
Chapter 3 is written by Nancy Kress, author of "Beggars in Spain", the landmark genetic engineering story that was one of the most critically acclaimed SF novellas of the 1990s---it won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and was the first Fictionwise eBook of the Year in 2000.
Kress retells the Garden of Eden story with a twist: the story is given from the serpent's point of view, and with his (or her?) unique spin.
www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/NancyKresseBooks.htm   (891 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Crossfire: Books: Nancy Kress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kress operates up to her usual high standards in most respects, and she also makes ethical dilemmas as gripping as laser fights, and the results of human-alien contact rather depend on which human contacts which alien.
Kress has put a terrific twist on the concept, and built a riveting story about a settlement of several thousand humans who depart a dying Earth in search of a new start--and get much more than they bargained for.
Kress never writes with a heavy hand, but she always gives the reader plenty to think about in the midst of a great tale.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765343894?v=glance   (2217 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Beaker's Dozen
Nancy Kress was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1948.
Nancy Kress moved on to write copy for an advertising agency, wrote fiction part-time, raised her children, taught at SUNY Brockport, and earned an M.S. in Education and an M.A. in English.
Kress allows readers to see the reasons behind the single-minded drive of dancers and the toll of the dream.
www.sfsite.com /09a/beak40.htm   (631 words)

  
 Science Fiction Weekly Interview
Kress lives in Maryland, and is married to fellow science-fiction author Charles Sheffield.
Kress: Editors are constantly looking for good hard SF not because "that's the way the industry is going," but because far fewer people write, or want to write, hard SF than write fantasy, social-extrapolation SF, or the other varieties.
Kress: Probability Moon, Probability Sun and Probability Space all refer to the discovery by physicist Tom Capelo, my character, of a fifth force in the universe, probability, subject to the same laws and equations that govern the other four forces in the universe—electromagnetism, gravity, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue279/interview.html   (1982 words)

  
 Classic Jazz Guitar - Guitarists
As early as the late 1920's Carl Kress was an established musician playing and recording in such venues as the Paul Whiteman Band and with Red Nichols.
In the 1930's Kress was in very high demand by orchestras and studios and as a result has left a significant number of recordings of his playing.
Due to the popularity of the duets he made with George Barnes, Kress is often overlooked for the huge influence he had on jazz guitar and guitar playing in general.
www.classicjazzguitar.com /artists/artists_page.jsp?artist=18   (572 words)

  
 St. Petersburg Historic Landmarks
The Kress Building was built by Samuel H. Kress, founder of the S. Kress chain of five and dime stores.
Kress retained an architectural staff to design many of his buildings, although the architect of St. Petersburg's Kress Building is unknown.
Although the Kress Building is not an elaborately decorative building, it does feature the figure sculpture (urns, brackets) along the parapet that is so common with the Beaux-Arts style, in addition to be clad with glazed terra cotta tile.
www.stpete.org /Kress.htm   (604 words)

  
 Essay: S. H. Kress in Nashville--An Art Deco Parthenon?
In Nashville the Kress Company leased space in older buildings, unlike their previous policy in Memphis, Knoxville, and other Tennessee cities that had received architect-designed, one-of-a-kind Kress buildings.
The new Kress Fifth Avenue building was hailed as "the finest type of mercantile building known to modern engineering." According to a company advertisement, the store was Kress's way of showing his gratitude to the citizens of the Tennessee Valley "for their enthusiastic acceptance of his merchandising principles."
In the 1970s Sibbert stated that his architectural influences were "anything but classical." This comment heightens the significance of the Fifth Avenue Kress building, because it is possible that architectural details of the Kress building are taken from the Parthenon in Centennial Park.
pages.prodigy.net /nhn.slate/nh00057.html   (683 words)

  
 UW-Green Bay Athletics | Off the Field - KRESS GIFT ENABLES UW-GREEN BAY TO REACH EVENTS CENTER FUNDRAISING GOAL
George Kress, James’ father and John’s grandfather, was the founder of Green Bay Packaging Inc. and a longtime supporter of education and other community causes.
Plans for the Kress Events Center include a central area with a seating capacity in the range of 3,000 to 4,000.
John Kress said the family and foundation were impressed by the commitment to the project displayed by UW-Green Bay students, the state of Wisconsin and other Green Bay area donors.
www.uwgb.edu /athletics/offthefield/122904.asp   (575 words)

  
 WHL Notebook: Silvertips' Kress cutting his tresses for charity
Kress has been near-Samsonian with his long hair, scoring at a career-best pace of four goals and six assists through 30 games before breaking his arm in a 2-0 home loss to Swift Current on Dec. 4.
His success this season was foretold by a highly successful playoff run last season during which Kress put up four goals and six assists in 21 games while the Silvertips advanced to the WHL championship, only to fall to the Medicine Hat Tigers.
Kress plays a key role in their 20-14-6-2 record and second-place standing in the U.S. Division.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /hockey/207784_whl14.html   (860 words)

  
 About Nancy Kress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Nancy Kress is the author of twenty-one books: thirteen novels of science fiction or fantasy, one YA novel, two thrillers, three story collections, and two books on writing.
Nancy Kress comprehends the grimy relationships among bioscience, technology, and politics; and soon we will too, if only enough of us read her.
Kress uses elegant, eloquent prose, wonderful and believable characters, and fascinating speculation, to come to grips with some of the most troubling questions of the late twentieth century - technology, freedom, love, and law - and manages to tell a gripping story at the same time
www.tachyonpublications.com /author/Nancy_Kress.html   (374 words)

  
 REINSTALLATION OF KRESS GALLERIES,
The Kress reinstallation, symposium and catalogue are all under the direction of Jeannine O’Grody, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts at the BMA.
The Collection would not be housed in one purpose-built “Kress Museum,” but would be dispersed to museums and institutions throughout the country, particularly in the relatively unsophisticated South and West which did not have ready access to European art.
The Kress Foundation in New York continues its support for the Birmingham Museum of Art by generously providing financial assistance for the Kress reinstallation, symposium and catalogue.
www.artsbma.org /kresspr.htm   (1410 words)

  
 Goldsmiths'-Kress Microfilm Series | Historical Collections | Baker Library
Only a portion of the Kress Collection was filmed when the microfilm series was created in 1972.
However, a substantial number of the titles in the microfilm series are available in the Kress Collection.
To clarify whether a title in the Goldsmiths'-Kress microfilm series is available in the Kress Collection, please contact the Historical Collections reference staff.
www.library.hbs.edu /hc/collections/kress/gk.shtml   (383 words)

  
 W. John Kress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Return from the lost: rediscovery of the presumed extinct Leptosolena (Zingiberaceae) in the Philippines and its phylogenetic placement in gingers.
Linnaean nomenclature in the 21st Century: a report from a workshop on integrating traditional nomenclature and phylogenetic classification.
Kress, W. DeFilipps, E. Farr, and Daw Yin Yin Kyi.
persoon.si.edu /staff/makepage.cfm?thisName=Kress   (509 words)

  
 Kress | Historical Collections | Baker Library
The Kress Collection of Business and Economics is recognized as one of the premier rare book collections in the world.
Many, but not all, of the titles in the Kress Collection may be found on this microfilm series.
Photoduplication Material from the Kress Collection may not be photocopied.
www.library.hbs.edu /hc/collections/kress   (359 words)

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