And getting them seemed a life's work.

The will has greatly puzzled historians, who have read it as a bizarre gesture of extreme piety uncharacteristic of Alfonso's character, one that effectively undid his life's work.

He applied in 1902 to the newly formed Carnegie Institution for a grant to write a systematic book of his life's work.

Erasmus Darwin House, his home in Lichfield, is now a museum dedicated to Erasmus Darwin and his life's work.

North made it his life's work to synthesize Austrian Economics with Rushdoony's theological conservatism.

It served as the foundation for his life's work.

" is a summary of his life's work and focuses on his famous studies of greylag geese.

In 2010 Jamison was conferred with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of St Andrews in recognition of all her life's work.

Previously he had not paid special attention to the study of ichthyology, but it soon became the great focus of his life's work.

Philip made it his life's work to destroy Angevin power in France.

The culmination of his life's work was the Institutio oratoria ( Institutes of Oratory, or alternatively, The Orator's Education ), a lengthy treatise on the training of the orator in which he discusses the training of the " perfect " orator from birth to old age and, in the process, reviews the doctrines and opinions of many influential rhetoricians who preceded him.

He concluded from these visions that the pursuit of science would prove to be, for him, the pursuit of true wisdom and a central part of his life's work.

The Bob Moog Foundation was created as a memorial, with the aim of continuing his life's work of developing electronic music.

Set on making his obsession also his life's work, Wenders returned to Germany in 1967 to work in the Düsseldorf office of United Artists.

He is now considered one of the best authorities on Dartmoor and its antiquities, having made it the subject of his life's work.

Two influences on Boole were later claimed by his wife, Mary Everest Boole: a universal mysticism tempered by Jewish thought, and Indian logic .. Mary Boole stated that an adolescent mystical experience provided for his life's work:

* Celia Fiennes noble woman and traveller, begins her journeys across Britain, in a venture that would prove to be her life's work.

Though he was a practicing clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts.

He spent much of his time monitoring what he considers his life's work, the Three Gorges Dam.

In 2007 he received the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for his life's work, and in 2011 he also received the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life's work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical fittingness, and how central The Enlightenment was to his mindset.

Russell wrote: " Piltdown was not a ' one-off ' hoax, more the culmination of a life's work.

Three months later Cavour, having seen his life's work nearly complete, died.

This time, she says she is crazy and confesses her life's story to Robert and Sir Michael, claiming that George abandoned her originally and she had no choice but to abandon her old life and child in order to find another, wealthier husband.

George James Symons was elected to the council of the British meteorological society in 1863 and made it his life's work to investigate rainfall within the British Isles.

Fixing the " mechanical man " automaton, created by the character of George Méliès, is the life's mission for the central character Hugo in the 2011 film " Hugo ".

He received an award for professional excellence from the Association for Education in Journalism in 1980, and a George Polk Award for his life's work in 1981.

George Putnam published his father's memoirs in 1912 and in 2000, his life's story was told again under the title George Palmer Putnam-Representative American Publisher by Ezra Greenspan, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

Simon Leng, author of the first musical biography on George Harrison, has written of the lyrics reflecting " life's ephemeral character " and the " transitory " nature of love ; to Inglis, the song is " stensibly " about " the end of a love affair ".

The Book of Ecclesiastes is often considered to be the only genuine Philosophical work in the Hebrew Bible, its author seeks to understand the place of human beings in the world, and life's meaning.

Johnson is quoted in The Billboard Book of Number One R & B Hits by Fred Bronson as saying that when she translated the original Japanese lyrics into English, she found out that the lyrics could be interpreted in three ways: as a man on his way to his execution, as someone trying to be optimistic despite life's trials, or as the story of an ended love affair.

Not altogether a successful play, `` Epitaph For George Dillon '' overcomes through sheer vitality and power what in a lesser work might be crippling.

After a short time, both George and Donald joined the class with me so they wouldn't feel lonely, and we used to hang a sign on the door of the Brush-off reading out to work.

George Gershwin: his life and work.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

The screenplay was by Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews, C. Gardner Sullivan, with uncredited work by Walter Anthony and Milestone.

Otto Lilienthal, following the work of Sir George Cayley, was the first person to become highly successful with glider flights.

In 1958, George Beadle and Edward Tatum received the Nobel Prize for work in fungi showing that one gene produces one enzyme.

Hearst did occasionally work with or pitch ideas to cartoonists, most notably his continued support of George Herriman's Krazy Kat.

However, quite a few cartoonists ( e. g.: George Herriman and Charles Schulz, among others ) have done their strips almost completely by themselves ; often criticizing the use of assistants for the same reasons most have about their editors hiring anyone else to continue their work after their retirement.

I want to see institutions like Throop turn out perhaps ninety-nine of every hundred students as men who are to do given pieces of industrial work better than any one else can do them ; I want to see those men do the kind of work that is now being done on the Panama Canal and on the great irrigation projects in the interior of this country — and the one-hundredth man I want to see with the kind of cultural scientific training that will make him and his fellows the matrix out of which you can occasionally develop a man like your great astronomer, George Ellery Hale.

He used the summer months of his graduate studies to work with planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper ( thesis advisor ), physicist George Gamow, and chemist Melvin Calvin.

This actually was not his first work in comics, as earlier the same year Barks along with Hannah and fellow storyman Nick George scripted Pluto Saves the Ship, which was among the first original Disney comic book stories published in the United States.

George and Lorena Hall taught in schools and did mission work, while Camilla and Nan played with the native children.

The town was home to the civil engineer and calculating prodigy George Parker Bidder ( 1806 – 1878 ), who is notable for his work on railways over much of the world, as well as the docks of the East End in the Port of London.

The underlying concept can be traced back to 1864 in the published work of George Perkins Marsh (" Man and Nature ").

In the same year, George Baker dedicated a second book to Oxford, his Practice of the New and Old Physic, a translation of a work by Conrad Gesner.

The work as a whole has been lost in the original Greek, but it may be reconstructed from later chronographists of the Byzantine school who made excerpts from the work, especially George Syncellus.

Capra was assigned to work directly under Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, the most senior officer in command of the Army, who would later create the Marshall Plan and be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

George then decided to find work in Scotland, and he left Robert with a local woman while he went to work in Montrose.

George Stephenson, with his work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.