When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.

When the first sprinkling of green appears I remove the board.

When solving an equation that involves division as well as other steps, do all the division steps first to reduce those parts of the equation to their numerical value.

When you first acquire a pool, we earnestly recommend -- for your own mental health -- a good long chat with your insurance agent.

When these groups were first formed many prominent and accomplished decorators could not have had the advantage of school training since interior design courses were rare and undeveloped during their youth.

When it comes to rate of early growth, the Indian python leads with a figure of about 3 feet 6 inches per year for the first two years, more or less.

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.

When we examine what each master says was his first collage we see that much the same thing happens in each.

When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

When the husband drops the case and returns to his wife, both seem sorry they brought the matter up in the first place.

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

When first informed he disbelieved the crow and turned all crows black ( where they were previously white ) as a punishment for spreading untruths.

When they were first occupied, the present-day islands including Milos with its important obsidian production were probably still connected to the mainland.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

When some thirteen records of newly and recently born individuals are collated, little or no correlation between length and distribution can be detected.

When the boot loader detected a CP / M floppy, the Aster would reconfigure its internal memory architecture on the fly to optimally support CP / M with 60 KB free RAM for programs ( TPA ) and an 80 x 25 display.

When one of the replicated devices is detected to be defective, the other copy is still operational, and is being utilized to generate a new copy on another device ( usually available operational in a pool of stand-by devices for this purpose ).

When one of the replicated devices is detected to be defective, the other copy is still operational, and is being utilized to generate a new copy on another device ( usually available operational in a pool of stand-by devices for this purpose ).

When a single photon is sent through an interferometer, it passes through both paths, interfering with itself, as waves do, yet is detected by a photomultiplier or other sensitive detector only once.

When a key is depressed, it moves a magnet, which is detected by the solid-state sensor.

When an NEA is detected it is submitted to the IAU's Minor Planet Center ( located at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ) for cataloging.

When PAH activity is reduced, phenylalanine accumulates and is converted into phenylpyruvate ( also known as phenylketone ), which is detected in the urine.

When a signal comes down an axon, the synaptic vesicles fuse with the cell membrane releasing the neurotransmitter so that it can be detected by receptor molecules on the next nerve cell.

: When I saw her, I detected behind the well-mannered ' young wife ' front a desperate twinkle in her eyes ...

When they strike the atmosphere, they can create large showers of secondary particles that are detected on Earth's surface.

When the clear tape reaches one of these, enough light will pass through the tape to the photodiode to trigger the stop function ; in more sophisticated machines it will start rewinding the cassette when the trailing end is detected.

When his crime is detected, he is forced to become a double agent in a covert power struggle between the Neo-Victorians and the Chinese Celestial Kingdom.

When this energy field is detected, the shredder instantly shuts down.

When ketone bodies are measured by way of urine concentration, acetoacetic acid, along with beta-hydroxybutyric acid ( BHB ), and acetone, is what is detected.

When detected early, shunt often can be corrected through surgery.

When British scientists in Antarctica performed airborne ice-penetrating radar surveys in the early 1970s, they detected unusual radar readings at the site which suggested the presence of a liquid, freshwater lake below the ice.

When AHL is detected, SdiA regulates the rck operon on the Salmonella virulence plasmid ( pefI-srgD-srgA-srgB-rck-srgC ) and a single gene horizontal acquisition in the chromosome srgE.

When the antenna was turned by 90 degrees at the maximum of the shower, the number of detections dropped to the background level, proving that the transient signals detected by radar were indeed from meteors.

When a ground fault is detected, the device quickly cuts off the circuit.

When measuring broadband continuum emissions, where the energy is roughly evenly distributed across the detector bandwidth, the detected signal will increase in proportion to the bandwidth of the detector ( as opposed to signals with bandwidth narrower than the detector bandpass ).

When no motion is detected, lights shut down, and the owner could save kilowatts of wasted overnight energy.

When an event is detected, it is passed on to the application where it is dealt with.

When entanglement of the cords is detected, it is highly recommended to deliver the fetuses as early as 31 weeks.