While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

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

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.

While they were told that there were some normal people who reacted differently than they had, they were also informed that there were other normals who reacted as they had.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

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 Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.

While not all Southerners saw themselves as fighting to preserve slavery, most of the officers and over a third of the rank and file in Lee's army had close family ties to slavery.

While this increased Antoninus ’ s popularity, the frugal emperor had to debase the Roman currency.

While working on a second book, Alcott and Peabody had a falling out and Conversations with Children on the Gospels was prepared with help from Peabody's sister Sophia, published at the end of December 1836.

While Agrippina lived there or when she went on short visits to Rome, Nero had sent people to annoy her.

While he was heir-apparent — 1865 to 1881 — Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.

While receiving generally favorable reviews, however, the album did not achieve the crossover success Parton had hoped for.

While some historians read this generous act as a sign that Emperor Menelik still hoped for a peaceful resolution to the war, Harold Marcus points out that this escort allowed him a tactical advantage: " Menelik craftily managed to establish himself in Hawzien, at Gendepata, near Adwa, where the mountain passes were not guarded by Italian fortifications.

While many of the school's attendees were day students, Coubertin boarded at the school under the supervision of a Jesuit priest, which his parents hoped would instill him with a strong moral and religious education.

While he cared little for who should become King of Poland, the cause of protecting the King's father-in-law was a sympathetic one, and he hoped to use the war as a means of humbling the Austrians, and perhaps securing the long-desired Duchy of Lorraine from its duke, Francis Stephen, who was expected to marry Emperor Charles's daughter Maria Theresa, which would bring Austrian power dangerously close to the French border.

While Jason searched for the Golden Fleece, Hera, who was still angry at Pelias, conspired to make Jason fall in love with Medea, who Hera hoped would kill Pelias.

While this reduced their potential delegate count going into the Democratic National Convention, each of these three candidates hoped that the other leading contenders would stumble in the primaries, thus causing the convention's delegates to choose him as a " compromise " candidate acceptable to all factions of the party.

While Bell had hoped his new Photophone could be used by ships at sea and to also displace the plethora of telephone lines that were blooming along busy city boulevards, his design failed to protect its transmissions from outdoor interferences such as clouds, fog, rain, snow and such, that could easily disrupt the transmission of light.

While it was initially hoped that vitamin E supplementation would have a positive effect on health, research has not supported these conclusions.

While heavily advertised and marketed, these games were perceived to be of poor quality and did not catch on as hoped, further damaging the industry.

While many hoped for an immediate rematch, Taylor moved up in weight in his next bout and the fighters did not meet again until 1994 when Chávez dominated and then knocked out a faded Taylor in eight rounds.

While the Nazi party was interested in improving its financial strength on the regional and local level by taking over Jewish property, Hermann Goering, in charge of the Four-Year Plan, hoped to acquire access to foreign currency in order to pay for the import of urgently-needed raw material.

While George argued for a " single tax " on land-rent to solve this problem, Keynes hoped that interest rates could be driven to zero.

While Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had hoped to settle issues related to slavery and Congressional authority by this decision, it aroused outrage and deepened sectional tensions.

While it has provided some jobs, this industry has not been the economic solution for which many residents hoped.

While the company had hoped to have £ 1 million to fund improvements, there was no working capital, and the enlargement of the locks to take 300-tonne or 500-tonne barges did not take place.

While accepting that this would be insufficient for a full scale naval war with Britain, Hitler hoped it would be a sufficient deterrent.

While parents had hoped he would study law, and although he had potential as an actor, Barré instead entered the British Army in 1746.

" While " Burke saw the collaboration as a stepping stone toward building an autonomous African-American business empire, ... Covay, more successful as a songwriter than a performer, hoped to promote his own career alongside those of his friends.

While McGriff hoped to catch on with another team after being released by the Devil Rays, he officially declared his retirement during spring training of 2005 when he received no calls from any teams requesting his services.

While James credits Velikovsky with " point the way to a solution by challenging Egyptian chronology ", he severely criticised the contents of Velikovsky's chronology as " disastrously extreme ", producing " a rash of new problems far more severe than those it hoped to solve " and claiming that " Velikovsky understood little of archaeology and nothing of stratigraphy.

While the NDP did better in elections than its CCF predecessor, the party did not experience the breakthrough it had hoped for and did not recognize his abilities until later in the days.

While advertising revenues were down almost 50 % compared to the prior year, expenses were also diminished in a planned strategy that the publishers hoped would return Newsweek to profitability.

While yellow crazy ants are still present in low numbers, and require surveillance, it is hoped that ground baiting will be sufficient.

While marketers have always hoped to achieve positive word-of-mouth, intentional marketing relying on such techniques is subject to regulation in some jurisdictions.