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.

Lilly Banks and I became friends.

In the 1930s, Carrel and Charles Lindbergh became close friends not only because of the years they worked together but also because they shared personal, political, and social views.

Alcott became friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson and became a major figure in transcendentalism.

He persuaded them, along with a group of friends, to purchase a controlling interest in the mines, which later became known as the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company based in Calumet, Michigan.

Her charges, the Robinson girls, became lifelong friends.

Before leaving, he met Milton Caniff, and the two became lifelong friends.

It was at the Watkinson library that Whorf became friends with the young boy, John B. Carroll, who later went on to study psychology under B. F. Skinner, and who in 1956 edited and published a selection of Whorf's essays as Language, Thought and Reality.

At age 11, in 1965, Mumy began working with Jonathan Harris on Lost in Space, and the two became close friends, both on and off set.

They later became reacquainted through Jennifer Finch, one of Love's longtime friends and former bandmates, who was dating Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl at the time.

In 1859, while attending the free school, the Académie Suisse, Pissarro became friends with a number of younger artists who likewise chose to paint in the more realistic style.

He initially worked for Hewitt Crane on magnetic devices and miniaturization of electronics ; Engelbart and Crane became lifelong friends.

He had a small, basic golf facility installed at Camp David, and became close friends with the Augusta National Chairman Clifford Roberts, inviting Roberts to stay at the White House on several occasions ; Roberts, an investment broker, also handled the Eisenhower family's investments.

In spite of his father's disapproval, he soon became friends with the shy, gifted Minkowski.

During his Army days, Janssen became friends with fellow enlistees Martin Milner and Clint Eastwood while posted at Ft. Ord, California.

During this expedition, which lasted 14 months, Almagro, Pizarro and Hernando de Luque became close friends.

The two became fast friends and spend many leisure time hours playing cards, going the horse races, hunting, fishing, attending social functions and political events.

While at Villanova he became friends with singer / songwriter Jim Croce.

In Honoré de Balzac's novel Letters of Two Brides, two women who became friends during their education at a convent correspond over a 17 year period, exchanging letters describing their lives.

Edwina and India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru became intimate friends after Indian Independence.

He also became friends with Crown Prince Don Luis, and spent two summers with him, painting portraits of both the Infante and his family.

The cast members also became best friends off-screen, and guest star Tom Selleck reported sometimes feeling left out.

During Sforza's reign, Florence was under the command of Cosimo de ' Medici and the two rulers became close friends.