He was busy, he said, in having someone submit to a monkey-gland operation.

The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

It was organizationally the responsibility of the Department of Public Works and was financed on a rotary fund basis with each agency of government contributing to the pool's operation.

In 1951 the pool's operation was transferred to the newly-created Department of Administration, an agency established as the central staff and auxiliary department of the state government.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

Because of the falling characteristic of the rectifier, no ballast resistor was required for stability of operation.

The spraying operation was conducted from the rear deck of a small Naval vessel, cruising two miles off-shore and vertical to an on-sure breeze.

This operation was started at 5:00 p.m. and lasted for 29 minutes.

We will deal first with the program in the Congo though this was put into operation later than the other.

The moving of millions of the German master-race, from the very heart of Junkerdom, to make room for the Polish Slavs whom they had enslaved and openly planned to exterminate was a drastic operation, but there was little doubt that it was historically justified.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

William's threat that under no conditions would he allow `` freedom-conscious '' slaves to mix with his own was not carried out, for the plantation continued in operation as before.

An internal police operation managed by Scott McLeod, a former F.B.I. man installed as security officer upon congressional insistence, was part of the vengeance.

`` Once, when the editor was just out of the hospital from a gallstone operation, Mrs. Calhoun and the mother of the bride went out to his house and fought it out beside his bed.

He said that when he was a Socialist in 1910, the party called for government operation of all utilities and the pooling of all resources.

This was disclosed today by a responsible source amid intensified efforts by the Soviet Union to gain a greater role in the staff and operation of the United Nations.

For most of the 25 years the operation was under feminine direction.

And Harry Dexter White, implicated in F.B.I. reports in Communist associations, was one of the architects of the Morgenthau Plan, which had it ever been put into full operation, would have simply handed Germany to Stalin.

Although this lasts as a railway operation only until November, it demonstrates the technologically successful first use of the cylindrical wrought iron tunnelling shield devised by Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead and of a permanent tunnel lining of cast iron segments.

After the end of the cold war however the former KGB agents Wassili Nikititsch Mitrochin and Oleg Gordijewski revealed independently of each other, that the Fort Detrick hypothesis was a propaganda operation devised by the KGB's First Chief Directorate under the codename " infection ".

At common law, fee tail or entail is an estate of inheritance in real property which cannot be sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the owner, but which passes by operation of law to the owner's heirs upon his death.

Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa described the operation " SIG " (“ Zionist Governments ”) that was devised in 1972, to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the United States.

Pinkerton devised the Rogues ’ Gallery — a compilation of descriptions, methods of operation ( modus operandi ), hiding places, and names of criminals and their associates.

Butler devised a plan for a night march and operation against Confederate forces at nearby Little Bethel and Big Bethel.

Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa described operation " SIG " (“ Zionist Governments ”) that was devised in 1972, to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel and the United States.

Of particular importance for the operation of mechanical devices became the newly devised right-angled gear and the screw.

While doing research for her book Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand learned the operation of the train, and subsequently devised a fictional company-the " Twentieth Century Motor Company "-which would be important to the novel's plot.

In ensuring the continued safe operation of the damage tolerant structure, inspection schedules are devised.

During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, it was established that the aircraft was shot down while participating in a covert operation devised and approved by elements of the United States government.

Project " Jupiter " was BA's internal working title for the strategy it had devised to turn the struggling Gatwick operation into a fully fledged hub.

Although this lasts as a railway operation only until November, it demonstrates the technologically successful first use of the cylindrical wrought iron tunnelling shield devised by Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead and of a permanent tunnel lining of cast iron segments.

is an out-of-place matrix transpose operation ( in-place algorithms have also been devised for transposition, but are much more complicated for non-square matrices ).

After the successes of Samuel Slater, a group of investors today known as The Boston Associates and led by Newburyport, Massachusetts merchant Francis Cabot Lowell devised a new textile operation on the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts, west of Boston.

He first devised the theory behind its operation in 1947 while experimenting with electronics.

The Carlitz derivative is an operation similar to usual differentiation have been devised with the usual context of real or complex numbers changed to local fields of positive characteristic in the form of formal Laurent series with coefficients in some finite field F < sub > q </ sub > ( it is known that any local field of positive characteristic is isomorphic to a Laurent series field ).

Operation Ruthless was the name of a deception operation devised by Ian Fleming in the British Admiralty during World War II, in an attempt to gain access to German Naval Enigma codebooks.

Widespread abuse of Usenet with spam and pornography has led to many of these FidoNet gateways to cease operation completely.

Dewey led a successful investigation into Luciano's lucrative prostitution operation, eventually sending Luciano to jail with a 30 – 50 year sentence.

Noghaideli underwent heart operation in April 2007 at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas, which was led by the leading U. S. surgeon Dr. Charles Frazier.

In June 1942, Heydrich was assassinated in Prague in an operation led by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, members of Czechoslovakia's army-in-exile who had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive.

The operation was led by General Alfredo Guzzoni.

In " Phase II " of their career, Dean Torrence led the touring operation.

The economic stagnation caused by political anarchy, ethnic strife and resultant military operation during late 1980s and 1990s led to efflux of industry from Karachi.

A Canadian and U. S. led operation ( supported by British and Dutch forces ), Operation Mountain Thrust was launched in May 2006 to counter renewed Taliban insurgency.

A high-risk rescue operation was led by Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, then undersecretary in the chancellor's office, who had secretly been flown in from Bonn.

This was the second-largest operation of the U. S. Global War on Terrorism outside of the United States, and the largest directly connected to terrorism, resulting in the overthrow of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, by a U. S .- led coalition.

These UCLA ’ s would “ sabotage ports, refineries, boats and bridges, and try to make it look like the contras had done it .” In January 1984, these UCLA ’ s performed their most famous, or infamous, operation, the last straw that led to the ratifying of the Boland Amendment, the mining of several Nicaraguan harbors

Disadvantages of single wire operation such as crosstalk and hum from nearby AC power wires had already led to the use of twisted pairs and, for long distance telephones, four-wire circuits.

* Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ) Natural philosopher and theologian whose search for the operation of the soul in the body led him to construct a detailed metaphysical model for spiritual-natural causation.

During the 1930s, IBM's German subsidiary was its most profitable foreign operation, and a 2001 book, IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black, argues that Watson's pursuit of profit led him to personally approve and spearhead IBM's strategic technological relationship with the Third Reich.

Ten years later, despite publicly opposing the US led war on Iraq, the UAE permitted a minimal amount of US forces to support the operation from the Al Dhafra air base, Jebel Ali, and naval facilities at Fujairah.

*** 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict – the frequent Hamas Qassam rocket and mortar fire launched from within civilian population centers in Gaza towards the Israeli southern civilian communities led to an Israeli military operation in Gaza, which had the stated aim of reducing the Hamas rocket attacks and stopping the arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip.

Significant operation success in Kosovo led to resumption of production and technical improvements, and the system is at present in operational use in Iraq and other military operations.

Special operations teams from the Advanced Force Operations ( AFO ) detachment led by Lieutenant Colonel Pete Blaber were to provide on-location reconnaissance in the Shahi-Kot Valley for the operation.

The success of the Porto Bello operation led the British in September 1740 to send a squadron under Commodore George Anson to attack Spain's possessions in the Pacific.

The following year a smaller force led by Charles Knowles made raids upon the Venezuelan coast, attacking La Guaira in February 1743 and Puerto Cabello in April, though neither operation was particularly successful.

The rescue operation was led by Maximilian IV Joseph, Prince Elector of Bavaria ( the future Maximilian I Joseph ).

He is an old friend of Frank's from the SEAL teams, who led the operation to rescue him in Mogadishu.

BCCI ’ s demise began in 1986, when a US Customs undercover operation led by Special Agent Robert Mazur infiltrated the bank ’ s private client division and uncovered their active role soliciting deposits from drug traffickers and money launderers.

The campaign started with an operation against the Suebi in North-Western Spain, lasted along the whole 459 and led by the magister militiae Nepotianus and the Gothic comes Sunieric.

As a result, and probably because his heart had been damaged by the first attack ten years earlier, he suffered a second heart attack at his home in Harpenden, Herts on 15 March 1979, which led to a seven-hour heart bypass operation by Magdi Yacoub on 25 June 1979.