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.

Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.

On September 28, 1995 Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries took over the Comoros islands in a coup ( named operation Kaskari by the mercenaries ) against President Djohar.

On the surface, an inventor named Goro Ibuki, his nephew Rokuro and their friend Hiroshi Jinkawa are off on an outing near a lake when Seatopia makes itself known to the Earth by drying up the lake the trio was relaxing nearby and using it as a base of operation ( unknown to our heroes.

The Compare operation takes a DN, an attribute name and an attribute value, and checks if the named entry contains that attribute with that value.

The Abandon operation requests that the server abort an operation named by a message ID.

Formerly a Green Beret named Colonel Willis Corto, who took part in a secret operation named Screaming Fist.

" The operation was named after Emperor Frederick Barbarossa of the Holy Roman Empire, a leader of the Third Crusade in the 12th century.

Heydrich was attacked in Prague on 27 May 1942 by a British-trained team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill him in an operation code named Operation Anthropoid.

Edsger Dijkstra invented the shunting-yard algorithm to convert infix expressions to postfix ( RPN ), so named because its operation resembles that of a railroad shunting yard.

In Boolean functions and propositional calculus, the Sheffer stroke, named after Henry M. Sheffer, written "|" ( see vertical bar, not to be confused with "||" which is often used to represent disjunction ), " Dpq ", or "↑", denotes a logical operation that is equivalent to the negation of the conjunction operation, expressed in ordinary language as " not both ".

The operation of the state radio and TV broadcast network was spun off into a company named Teracom.

A large dorm complex at Indiana University Bloomington is named after him, and for several decades was home to the Willkie Co-op, an experimental housing cooperative that emphasized student operation of dormitory service.

Seven Royal Navy ships have been named after the town, including a Type 23 frigate launched in 1991 which is still in operation.

Building good relations with local Native Americans Hualapai Nation and white settlers, he discovered the Crossing of the Fathers, Lee's Ferry in 1858 and Pierce Ferry ( later operated by, and named for, Harrison Pierce ) – the latter two the only two sites suitable for ferry operation.

Bipolar transistors are so named because their operation involves both electrons and holes.

The Lavon Affair refers to a failed Israeli covert operation, code named Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the Summer of 1954.

The operation — code named Operation Reservist — failed as the two Banff class sloops were shattered by crossfire from the French vessels there.

Although Croydon has long ceased operation, the two cut ends of Plough Lane have never been reunited, but the area between has been developed instead into parkland, playing fields, and the Roundshaw residential estate with its roads aptly named after aviators and aircraft.

He named the operation Vickery's Landing and the settlement surrounding it eventually became known as Vicksburg.

Both armies were named after their main operation area and belonged to the Heilbronn Alliance ( Sweden's German-Protestant allies under the directorate of the Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna ).

The title given to the operation commanded by Wolfram von Richthofen, which saw the town of Guernica bombed during the Spanish Civil War, was named after the island.

As a result, the South-East Asian market is now the only region in the world where EMI is no longer in operation, although the record label does continue to operate in Hong Kong and Indonesia ( which is currently named Arka Music Indonesia ).