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.

For this first development the supplier signing the lease is a major oil company but in turn the deal is being transferred for operation to its local fueloil distributor.

The first stage of operation has centered on the literature imaging of critical or summarizing tabulations such as the Barker Index.

Equipment should be in operation `` almost immediately after the first snowfall '', Mr. Schaefer said.

The desire to create air portable armoured vehicles that can still take on conventional MBTs has usually resulted ATGM armed light vehicles or in protected / armoured / mobile gun system style vehicles in which a lack of armour protection being in part offset by the provision of a first look / first hit / first kill capability through the mating of a powerful gun to superior targeting electronics, a concept similar in operation to that of the US tank destroyers of WWII.

* 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.

* 1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.

A binary operation, ab, depends on the ordered pair ( a, b ) and so ( ab ) c ( where the parentheses here mean first operate on the ordered pair ( a, b ) and then operate on the result of that using the ordered pair (( ab ), c )) depends in general on the ordered pair (( a, b ), c ).

" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.

The first year of the Eastern Front offensive can generally be considered to have had the last successful major mobile operation for the German army.

For the first time the blitzkrieg was defeated in summer and the opposing forces were able to mount their own, successful, counter operation.

Reflecting pent-up demand that had long existed for medical services, the NHS treated some 8. 5 million dental patients and dispensed more than 5 million pairs of spectacles during its first year of operation.

Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.

Nereus thus became the first vehicle to reach the Mariana Trench since 1998 and the deepest-diving vehicle currently in operation.

Demonstration of a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was accomplished by Enrico Fermi and others, in the successful operation of Chicago Pile-1, the first artificial nuclear reactor, in late 1942.

* 1913 – The Buenos Aires Subway, the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.

The determinant provides important information when the matrix is that of the coefficients of a system of linear equations, or when it corresponds to a linear transformation of a vector space: in the first case the system has a unique solution if and only if the determinant is nonzero, while in the second case that same condition means that the transformation has an inverse operation.

Although Fresnel, who had also the satisfaction of being the first to put it into operation, perfected the dioptric apparatus independently, Brewster was active earlier in the field than Fresnel, describing the dioptric apparatus in 1812.

The first botanical observations of the island were made by Hume in 1883, when the coconut plantations had been in operation for a full century.

The college however did not hold its first class until 1838, with the operation of the college itself being only intermittent and no degrees awarded at the college.

In 1934 the British military began to make strides toward radar ( which also uses the magnetron ) under the direction of Dr Wimperis, culminating in the operation of the first radar station at Bawdsey in August 1936.

On proving to be a good nurse, she was allowed to attend an outpatients ’ clinic, then her first operation.

In 1942, the Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler ordered the Lublin District SS-und Polizeiführer Odilo Globocnik to build the first extermination camps during Aktion Reinhard ( 1941 – 43 ), the operation to annihilate every Jew in the General Government ( occupied Poland ).