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A good horsehair head can supposedly cut through frost better than a synthetic head, but frost isn’t usually a big issue in most curling clubs (although there has been some concern about it at the un-air-conditioned Brandt Centre, where the Brier is being played).

Sweep! Sweep! Edward Willett 2006

A good horsehair head can supposedly cut through frost better than a synthetic head, but frost isn’t usually a big issue in most curling clubs (although there has been some concern about it at the un-air-conditioned Brandt Centre, where the Brier is being played).

Archive 2006-03-12 Edward Willett 2006

Other factoids, the men's Canadian national championship is called the Brier (pronounced Bry-er).

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Which begs the question -- how is the JLC, with barely more than 9,000 seats -- even big enough for the Brier, which is the CCA's biggest money-spinner?

London Free Press - News 2009

In Shakespeare's time the "Brier" was not restricted to the Sweet Briar, as it usually is now; but it meant any sort of wild Rose, and even it would seem from No. 9 that it was applied to the cultivated Rose, for there the scene is laid in the Temple Gardens.

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

Kenneth Brier , an attorney at Brier & Geurden in Needham, Mass., notes that Massachusetts has a flat tax of 5.3%, making munis less attractive there than in high-tax states with graduated rates such as New York or California.

What You Can Learn From Mitt's Tax Return Laura Saunders 2012

MR: They suggested Sophie Tucker, and Kathy Brier played the part.

Mike Ragogna: Boardwalk Empires, Mockingbirds, Concertos & Rocket Science: Conversations with The Jayhawks, Bela Fleck and Vince Giordano Mike Ragogna 2011

MR: They suggested Sophie Tucker, and Kathy Brier played the part.

Mike Ragogna: Boardwalk Empires, Mockingbirds, Concertos & Rocket Science: Conversations with The Jayhawks, Bela Fleck and Vince Giordano Mike Ragogna 2011

But clearly, Clark is not in the First LD, which is northeast King County and south Snohomish County, including areas of Bothell, Woodinville, Mountlake Terrace, and Brier.

Dissension in the Republican Ranks « PubliCola 2010

The first one is from last week at Chapters, the second from today at Book & Brier (and thanks to my wife and her handy Blackberry for both of them).

If an author signs in a bookstore and no one comes near, does he make a sound? ewillett 2009