While in Newport News, Gardner's father became ill and died from bronchitis in 1938, when Ava was 15 years old.

While it is hardly surprising that a writer reuses some of his own inventions now and then, it is noteworthy that the themes of Carroll's poems (" Jabberwocky ", " The Mouse's Tale ", " The Pig-Tale ", " The Mad Gardener's Song ") run through all of his major works like, to borrow Gardner's expression, " demented fugues ".

While the Mason novels were largely a form of pulp fiction of the sort that began Gardner's writing career, they are unusual in that the whodunnit mysteries usually involved two solutions: one in which the authorities believed ( whereby Mason's client was guilty ) and an alternative explanation ( whereby Mason's client was innocent ).

While Ian Fleming's novels are strictly canon, Gardner's novels are not strictly followed, though there are some aspects that are carried over.

While Gardner's strong interest was education, as a psychologist he saw the value of the behavioral sciences in addressing societal and world problems.

While each wrestling match is ostensibly a competition of athletics and strategy, the goal of each match from a business standpoint is to excite and entertain the audience.

While it is by far the most renowned type of port, from a volume and revenue standpoint, vintage port actually makes up only a small percentage of the production of most shippers.

While superficially resembling in its pitch-jumping effect the overblowing of other ( beating-reed, aerophone, brass ) wind instruments, harmonica overblowing is completely unrelated from the standpoint of the underlying physics.

While mycobacteria do not seem to fit the Gram-positive category from an empirical standpoint ( i. e., they do not retain the crystal violet stain ), they are classified as acid-fast Gram-positive bacteria due to their lack of an outer cell membrane.

While mycobacteria do not seem to fit the Gram-positive category from an empirical standpoint ( i. e., in general, they do not retain the crystal violet stain well ), they are classified as an acid-fast Gram-positive bacterium due to their lack of an outer cell membrane.

" While this may appear to contradict Stern's objections, Stern noted in an interview with Smithsonian Air and Space that, unlike the IAU's definition, his definition still allows unterplanets to be planets: " I do think from a dynamical standpoint, there are planets that really matter in the architecture of the solar system, and those that don ’ t.

While his early years in San Diego were successful from a ratings standpoint, his core audience was much smaller than what he had in Los Angeles.

While there is strong religious custom for Jewish males to cover their heads, from the standpoint of Jewish law there is no special religious significance to the shtreimel as compared to other head coverings.

While there is a discernible rock and funk influence in the timbres of the instruments employed, from a musical standpoint the album was a culmination of sorts of the musique concrète approach that Davis and producer Teo Macero ( who had studied with Otto Luening at Columbia University's Computer Music Center ) had begun to explore in the late 1960s.

While philosophers have known about conation since ancient times, it is only recently that the concept has been understood from a scientific and practical instead of a purely philosophical standpoint.

While from a critical standpoint, " staging " can refer to the spectacle that a play presents in performance, the term is also frequently used interchangeably with the term " blocking ", referring to how the performers are placed and moved around the stage.

While this sound may not be ideal ( from a frequency standpoint ), it is the sound that most characterizes what the classically trained harpist hears and expects.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

While Johnny made himself comfortable on the couch, I'd play the tunes for him.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

While expensive in time and involving a great deal of adaptation on the part of the worker ( in terms of his willingness to leave the sanctity of his office and enter actively into the client's life ), techniques of accompaniment were found to be of tremendous value when in the service of specific preventive objectives.

While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.

While the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

While it had long been known in general, that `` the public is always wrong '', the use of odd-lot indices now puts the adage on a statistical basis.

While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

While the factories were always the center of the labor market, they were often on the city's periphery.

While the `` empirical psychoanalytic '' label which Fromm claims sheds no light on the validity of his underlying philosophy, it does increase the marketability of his product.

and on Christmas Day, 1890, Hardy wrote: `` While thinking of resuming ' the viewless Wings Of Poesy before dawn this morning, new horizons seemed to open, and worrying pettinesses to disappear '' ( Early Life, p. 302 ).

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

While a hazy part of my mind concentrated on swimming down, a clear part sorted over recent events, among them my only positive act in a long time.

While ideas about altruism from one field can have an impact on the other fields, the different methods and focuses of these fields always lead to different perspectives on altruism.

While both sexes state that kindness is the most preferable trait in a partner there is some evidence that men place less value on this than women and that women may not be more altruistic in presence of an attractive man.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

While Durkheim and others examined the state of modern societies, Mauss and his collaborators ( such as Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz ) drew on ethnography and philology to analyze societies that were not as ' differentiated ' as European nation states.

While individual sportsmen are aware of this situation, too many of our political, social, educational and even religious leaders too often forget it.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

While assistance is often in the form of financial payments, those eligible for social welfare can usually access health and educational services free of charge.

While many homes have word processors on their computers, word processing in the home tends to be educational, planning or business related, dealing with assignments or work being completed at home, or occasionally recreational, e. g. writing short stories.

" While his opponents called his powerful network of supporters the " Tuskegee Machine ," Washington maintained control because of his ability to gain support of numerous groups including influential whites and the black business, educational and religious communities nationwide.

While genetic discrimination is forbidden by law, in practice it is easy to profile a person's genotype resulting in the valids qualifying for professional employment while the in-valids — considered more susceptible to disease, educational dysfunction and shorter lifespans — are relegated to menial jobs.

While Binet was developing his mental scale, the business, civic, and educational leaders in the U. S. were facing issues of how to accommodate the needs of a diversifying population, while continuing to meet the demands of society.

" While instructional technology covers the processes and systems of learning and instruction, educational technology includes other systems used in the process of developing human capability.

While the National Assessment of Education Progress ( NAEP ) has served as an educational barometer for some thirty years by administering standardized tests on a regular basis to random schools throughout the United States, efforts over the last decade at the state and federal levels have mandated annual standardized test administration for all public schools across the country.

While his term as Mayor has been educational and beneficial Bozarth has already announced that he does not plan to run for re-election.

While a final concordat draft had not been completed by mid-2001, earlier versions covered several controversial topics, including transfer to the Church of ownership of church treasures expropriated during the Soviet period and currently held in state museums and repositories ; government compensation to the Church for moral and material damage inflicted by the Soviets ; and government assistance in establishing after-school Orthodox religious courses in educational institutions and Orthodox chaplaincies in the military and in prisons.

While the majority of museum installations focus on educational and documentary films, on special occasions, entertainment films are also shown, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.

While Nichiren " did not argue that working for social betterment in and of itself constitutes an essential part of Buddhist practice ,", " he claimed that an individuals ' faith, practice and his empowerment carried profound consequences for the society and the world at large " combined with Makiguchi's educational theory of value-creation ( Jp.

While there, he received a privat-docent for his endeavors in educational studies after receiving his doctoral degree.

While generally educational about some aspect of the company, the programs usually featured some member of the senior management team in a humorous way.

While the educational work was progressing, Bennett learned of Idries Shah, an exponent of Sufism.

While continuing to grow through mergers with other educational institutions in the 1990s, the University has also begun developing its international presence, by opening its regional offices in continental Europe.

While official policies in mainland China encourage the development and use of different orthographies for the national languages and their use in educational and academic settings, realistically speaking it would seem that, as elsewhere in the world, the outlook for

While Bruner was at Harvard he published a series of works about his assessment of current educational systems and ways that education could be improved.

While the majority of the classes are coeducational, Conceptual Physics and 9th and 10th grade English and History classes are taught separately to gender for educational purposes.

While teachers often choose to use educational software from other categories in their IT suites ( e. g. reference works, children ’ s software ), a whole category of educational software has grown up specifically intended to assist classroom teaching.

While independent prep schools in the United States are not subject to government oversight or regulation, they are accredited by one of the six regional accreditation agencies for educational institutions.

While BCCC primarily serves the residents and business community of Baltimore, it also offers educational opportunities on all levels to the citizens of Baltimore and the State of Maryland that enables students to obtain good jobs, transfer to four-year colleges, or take short-term training to upgrade their skills or acquire new ones.

While the French trace the development of their educational system to Napoléon, the modern era of French education begins at the end of the nineteenth century.