In 1709 he became professor of botany and medicine, and in that capacity he did good service, not only to his own university, but also to botanical science, by his improvements and additions to the botanic garden of Leiden, and by the publication of numerous works descriptive of new species of plants.

After meeting Sam Raimi in Wylie E. Groves High School, the two became very good friends and started making movies together.

In Britain particularly, good quality building stone became ever more expensive during a period of rapid growth, and it became a common practice to construct prestige buildings from the new industrial bricks, and to finish them with a stucco to imitate stone.

The British Churchill tank because of its good cross-country performance and capacious interior with side hatches became the most adapted with modifications, the base unit being the AVRE carrying a large demolition gun.

Aiding him in his actions was his good friend, Herod Agrippa, who became governor of the territories of Batanaea and Trachonitis after Caligula became emperor in AD 37.

The city of Djibouti, which had a harbor with good access that attracted trade caravans crossing East Africa, became the new administrative capital.

He dealt with Soviet Marshal Zhukov, his Russian counterpart, and they became good friends.

In creating this world out of Chaos the Demiurge was unconsciously influenced for good ; and the universe, to the surprise even of its Maker, became almost perfect.

Tillohash became a good friend of Sapir, and visited him at his home in New York and Philadelphia.

He had the good fortune to attract the attention of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, and subsequently became one of Luther's most

They soon became good at being able to hold the paper tape up to the light and read back the codes.

Most of the others became elaborate formal descriptions which most readers will never be able to decipher, and therefore may not stand up to automated debugging / compiling, just as a program might look good in review, but a compiler might find some interesting errors, and actually running the program written might find even more interesting errors.

When it became clear to Wilkins and the supervisors of Watson and Crick that Franklin was going to the new job, and that Linus Pauling was working on the structure of DNA, they were willing to share Franklin's data with Watson and Crick, in the hope that they could find a good model of DNA before Pauling was able.

Hughes finally dropped the lawsuit in late 1930 and he and hawks became good friends during the legal battle.

He did, however, correspond regularly with other contemporary writers, such as Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth, people who became good friends of his, even though they never met in person.

Greenberg befriended Robinson and encouraged him ; they became good friends and Robinson credited Greenberg with being a good influence helping him through his rookie year.

As the forces detached to his lieutenants were generally unable to hold their own, and neither his home government nor his new ally Philip V of Macedon helped to make good his losses, his position in southern Italy became increasingly difficult and his chance of ultimately conquering Rome grew ever more remote.

Spencer Tracy was a serious Broadway actor whom Bogart liked and admired, and they became good friends and drinking buddies.

Hans quickly picked up Dürer's influence and style, and they became good friends.

Recent fantasy novels have begun to depart from the more common good vs evil background that became prevalent after Lord of the Rings.

Over time, millions, and today billions, of transistors could be placed on one chip, and to make a good design became a task to be planned thoroughly.

Nevertheless, they became good friends and Pei found the experience personally enriching.

Even as he became widely known as a professional killer, nearly every cowboy and rancher in Wyoming seemed proud to call him a friend.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

Alaric became the friend and ally of his late opponent, Stilicho.

A new opportunity arose in 1845, when he became assistant to Lyon Playfair at the new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close friend of Edward Frankland.

Over the next several years Metastasio gave Salieri informal instruction in prosody and the declamation of Italian poetry, and Gluck became an informal advisor, friend and confidante.

With Gladstone's refusal Derby and Disraeli looked elsewhere and settled on Disraeli's old friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became Secretary of State for the Colonies ; Derby's son Lord Stanley, succeeded Ellenborough at the Board of Control.

She became the sister-in-law of her friend and colleague, Édouard Manet, when she married his brother, Eugène.

There he met Zoltán Kodály, who influenced him greatly and became his lifelong friend and colleague.

The regime was so austere that Bernard became ill, and only the influence of his friend William of Champeaux and the authority of the general chapter could make him mitigate the austerities.

Later, Darwin became a close personal friend, and Lyell was one of the first scientists to support On the Origin of Species, though he did not subscribe to all its contents.

Stories have been told about the very young Chet who, when a friend or relative would come to visit, and if that person played a guitar, would crowd in and put his ear so very close to the instrument that it became difficult for that person to play.

Van Doesburg became a friend of Schwitters, and together they organized the so-called Dutch Dada campaign in 1923, where Van Doesburg promoted a leaflet about Dada ( entitled What is Dada?

This success began with Pillow Talk ( 1959 ), co-starring Rock Hudson, who became a lifelong friend, and Tony Randall.

David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic.

As a result of the collaboration, Jones became a close friend of Boynton.

One commercial in the series, starring a high-school friend of his son Hamilton Morris, named Ellen Feiss, became an Internet fad.

In the spring of 1559 it became evident that Elizabeth was in love with her childhood friend Robert Dudley.

For instance, Erasmus became an intimate friend of an Italian Humanist Publio Fausto Andrelini, poet and " professor of humanity " in Paris.

His hurried effort was published by his friend Johann Froben of Basel in 1516 and thence became the first published Greek New Testament, the Novum Instrumentum omne, diligenter ab Erasmo Rot.

However, she was beaten in the contest ( although Encyclopedia admitted that she almost tricked him ), after which she became his friend.