When asked later why he had stopped writing about Greek poetry, he responded, " I found that I could not attain to excellence in both.

When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.

When the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest was translated from Greek to Arabic, the translator Johannitius ( following Alberuni ) did not know the Greek word and rendered it as the nearest-looking Arabic word, writing العصى ذات الكلاب in ordinary unvowelled Arabic text " al -` aşā dhāt al-kullāb ", which means " the spearshaft having a hook ".

When the Arabic text was translated into Latin, the translator Gerard of Cremona ( probably in Spain ) mistook the Arabic word كلاب for kilāb ( the plural of كلب kalb ), meaning " dogs ", writing hastile habens canes (" spearshaft having dogs ").

When Harley was ousted from the ministry in 1708 Defoe continued writing it to support Godolphin, then again to support Harley and the Tories in the Tory ministry of 1710 to 1714.

When his colleague Richard Courant wrote the now classic Methods of Mathematical Physics including some of Hilbert's ideas, he added Hilbert's name as author even though Hilbert had not directly contributed to the writing.

When Martin Gardner retired from writing his " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine, Hofstadter succeeded him in 1981 – 1983 with a column entitled Metamagical Themas ( an anagram of " Mathematical Games ").

When writing solo passages for the bass in orchestral or chamber music, composers typically ensure the orchestration is light so it doesn't obscure the bass.

When Auckland refused to put the agreement in writing, Dost Mohammad turned his back on the British and began negotiations with Vitkevich.

: When God decreed the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His book which is laid down with Him: My mercy prevails over My wrath.

When the shell was warmed, milk would turn brown therefore the writing would appear on what looked like blank paper.

When Bosman was sixteen, he started writing short stories for the national Sunday newspaper ( the Sunday Times ).

When either writing through or directly to physical device registers, this may, but not necessarily, cause a real interrupt to occur at the device's central processor unit ( CPU ), if it has one.

" When he was repatriated, he was allowed to keep the manuscript of a book he had been writing, and his pet starling.

When writing to memory, the CPU writes data from MDR to the memory location whose address is stored in MAR.

When Nash wasn't writing poems, he made guest appearances on comedy and radio shows and toured the United States and the United Kingdom, giving lectures at colleges and universities.

When he first started writing songs for the Pixies, Francis says he was listening to nothing but Hüsker Dü, Captain Beefheart, and Iggy Pop ; Other influences associated with Francis include The Gun Club and The Cars.

When writing against Photius, he begged the emperor to send warships and soldiers to enable him to ward off the assaults of the Saracens.

* When writing RPN on paper ( something that some users of RPN may not do ) adjacent numbers need a separator between them.

When she received the news, his mother attempted to contain her sorrow by writing down her feelings in a notebook her husband had been using to take notes on a relativity textbook he had been reading.

When Claudette walked in the room where Dees and Orbison were writing to say she was heading for Nashville, Orbison asked if she had any money.

When they started writing the script, the Coens wrote only 40 pages and then let it sit for a while before finishing it.

When Beckett started writing he did not have a visual image of Vladimir and Estragon.

# When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible — and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

When they learn you're in the hills though, they'll rally, don't worry about that ''.

When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

When I talked to Ching about it, he said, Everyone can learn, if he is not a Reactionary or lazy.

When they stood about his tent, chaffing each other, exchanging their obscenities, cursing command or weather, he had studied their faces.

When values of temperature derived with this instrument were compared with the accepted values associated with liquid helium-4 vapor pressures, differences of about 10 and 7 millidegrees respectively were found.

When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.

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 we come upon the rabbit and make our remark about its suffering being a bad thing, we presumably make it with some feeling ; ;

When the house was about half consumed, his comrade ran to the door and threw up his hands, declaring repeatedly that he did not know the whereabouts of Manuel.

When the platform is level, **ye is a rotation about the Z axis of the platform Af.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

When the Plymouth neared, it veered toward him and seemed about to run him down.

When he had closed the suitcase he found a rag and moved about the room, wiping carefully everything he might have touched.

When he heard Calenda say: `` What about that picture you took this afternoon ''??

When he was unable to bring about immediate expansion, he sought to convince another National League club to move here.

When he attended the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade school here about six months ago, Jim became convinced that an individual can do something constructive in the ideological battle and set out to do it.

When I wheeled about, finned fore and aft, I was the darling of the doormen.

When it was my turn, I, too, printed the truth as I knew it about Batista, and rejoiced to see his regime topple.

And when she returned from taking her guests back to New York she had said, `` All they talked about was Harvie Harvie this, Harvie that When they know the truth will they drop away from me, will I become a nothing ''??

When he was back on his feet again and about to reinstall the fuses, however, he hesitated.

When questioned by the Sadducees about the resurrection of the dead ( in a context relating to who one's spouse would be if one had been married several times in life ), Jesus said that marriage will be irrelevant after the resurrection as the resurrected will be ( at least in this respect ) like the angels in heaven.