When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he added to his Pittsburgh commitments the directorship of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1958, he conducted one hundred fifty concerts within nine months, `` commuting '' between the two cities.

When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

When it was not, one of the great dramas of Washington would be presented.

When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success of another, it is only natural.

When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.

When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

When it is needed, one formula is as important as another.

When mold has more than one design cavity, make individual paper patterns.

When changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.

`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

When now we count the frequency of the 71 items in the two language families appearing in the same column or grade, or one column or grade apart, or two or three or four, we find these differences: Af

When plants fix atmospheric carbon dioxide () into organic matter during photosynthesis they incorporate a quantity of that approximately matches the level of this isotope in the atmosphere.

When used in larger quantity, spices can also contribute a substantial amount of minerals, including iron, magnesium, calcium, and many others, to the diet.

When only a sample of data from a population is available, the population standard deviation can be estimated by a modified quantity called the sample standard deviation, explained below.

When consumers increase the quantity demanded at a given price, it is referred to as an increase in demand.

When cardinal utility is used, the magnitude of utility differences is treated as an ethically or behaviorally significant quantity.

When it is added, that the quantity of grain gained from the superior powers of the machine is fully equal to a twentieth part of the crop, and that, in some cases, the expense of thrashing and cleaning the grain is considerably less than what was formerly paid for cleaning it alone, the immense saving arising from the invention will at once be seen.

When Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt disappeared, one hypothesis put forward by Glenn Orten was that a large quantity of ammonia cirrus clouds had formed above it, hiding it from view.

When the uncertainty represents the standard error of the measurement, then about 68. 2 % of the time, the true value of the measured quantity falls within the stated uncertainty range.

When speaking of a " 10 % rise " or a " 10 % fall " in a quantity, the usual interpretation is that this is relative to the initial value of that quantity.

When the girl insisted, the woman threw a dish of lentils into the ashes for her to pick up, guaranteeing her permission to attend the festival, and when the girl accomplished the task in less than an hour with the help of two, white doves sent by her mother from Heaven, the stepmother only redoubled the task and threw down even a greater quantity of lentils.

When the berries are ripe, they are tender and difficult to pick in any quantity without squashing them.

When making herbal remedies, these phenols can serve as markers for the quantity of raw echinacea in the product.

When these techniques are used, lookahead is not a precisely defined quantity, but instead either the maximum depth searched or some type of average.

When Elizabeth I ascended the throne in 1558, England was an impoverished country, in religious turmoil, and with a coinage which was in a poor state after Henry VIII's debasement, since when little had been done to improve either the quantity or quality of the coins in circulation.

When soap making, sodium hydroxide cannot be substituted with potassium hydroxide and vice versa because soap making recipes will have different quantity requirements for these two chemicals depending on the kind of soap being manufactured.

When the value of a large quantity of items has a Zipf's law distribution,

When the harvest time came, and many presses were wanted concurrently and suddenly, he let them out at any rate he pleased, and made a large quantity of money.

When the harvest-time came, and a sharp increase in demand for the use of the olive presses outstripped supply, he sold his future use contracts of the olive presses at a rate of his choosing, and made a large quantity of money.

When stock of a particular component is depleted by the quantity assigned on kanban card, a " kanban trigger " is created ( which may be manual or automatic ), a purchase order is released with predefined quantity for the vendor defined on the card, and the vendor is expected to dispatch material within lead time.

When Zhuge Dan launched a massive full-scale rebellion, the Wu forces suffered a great defeat as they lent a great quantity of manpower to Zhuge Dan's cause.

When an open-circuit scuba diver inhales, a quantity of highly compressed gas from his cylinder is reduced in pressure by a regulator, and enters the lungs at a much higher volume than it occupied in the cylinder.