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

While studying law, he taught at Delaware Academy.

While studying physics at the Case Institute of Technology, Knuth was introduced to the IBM 650, one of the early mainframes.

* 1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.

While studying them, the sun shines through a hole in the wall, shaped like a cross inside a circle.

While slight variations on the standard code had been predicted earlier, none were discovered until 1979, when researchers studying human mitochondrial genes discovered they used an alternative code.

While studying at the Conservatory, Puccini obtained a libretto from Ferdinando Fontana and entered a competition for a one-act opera in 1882.

While studying in Shanghai, he had closely examined the catalogs for various institutions of higher learning around the world.

While he was studying in England, he became the guardian of Edward Moulton, who later assumed his mother's family name of Barrett, and became the father of Elizabeth Barrett of Wimpole Street fame.

While in graduate school at UC Berkeley, Wall and his wife were studying linguistics with the intention afterwards of finding an unwritten language, perhaps in Africa, and creating a writing system for it.

While studying compositions of linear transformations, Arthur Cayley was led to define matrix multiplication and inverses.

While slight variations on the standard code had been predicted earlier, none was discovered until 1979, when researchers studying human mitochondrial genes determined that they used an alternative code.

While studying these languages, Abel published his first notable work in 1824, Mémoire sur les équations algébriques où on démontre l ' impossibilité de la résolution de l ' équation générale du cinquième degré ( Memoir on algebraic equations, in which the impossibility of solving the general equation of the fifth degree is proven ).

While studying law under the mentorship of Oliver Ellsworth, the future U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, Webster held a full-time job teaching in Hartford — a schedule he found grueling, and ultimately impossible to sustain .< p.

While studying the continuum hypothesis, Cohen is quoted as saying in 1985 that he " had the feeling that people thought the problem was hopeless, since there was no new way of constructing models of set theory.

While working as an ambulance driver Wilson attended New York University, studying engineering and mathematics.

While Sapir never made a point of studying directly how languages affected the thought processes of their speakers, some notion of ( probably " weak ") linguistic relativity lay inherent in his basic understanding of language, and would be taken up by his student Benjamin Lee Whorf.

While studying at Kennett High School, Crow was a majorette and an All-State track athlete, medaling in the 75-meter low hurdles.

While studying mathematics as an undergraduate student at Harvard College, he began to write comic songs to entertain his friends, including " Fight Fiercely, Harvard " ( 1945 ).

While studying he worked for the security police EK between 1921 and 1927, where he became acquainted with anti-Communist policing.

While studying in Toronto he met a wide circle of friends, many of whom became prominent.

While studying at the University of Toronto, King also contributed to the campus newspaper The Varsity.

** While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a heavenly body considered a planet until 2006, when the term " planet " was officially defined.

While studying, Bruckner also helped his father in teaching the other children.

While Zwingli was burning organs in Switzerland – Luther called him a fanatic – the Church of England was burning books of polyphony.

While initiated in England, competitive men's badminton in Europe has traditionally been dominated by Denmark.

While the sources for north-eastern Britain, the lands of the kingdom of Northumbria and the former Pictland, are limited and late, those for the areas on the Irish Sea and Atlantic coasts — the modern regions of north-west England and all of northern and western Scotland — are non-existent, and archaeology and toponymy are of primary importance.

While his parents and older siblings left for England in April and May that year, Charles remained in Scotland, with his father's friend and the Lord President of the Court of Session, Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie, appointed as his guardian.

While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

While many Tories were strongly opposed to reform, the distributists in certain cases saw this not as conserving a legitimate traditional concept of England, but in many cases, entrenching harmful errors and innovations.

While at Reims, Callistus tried to effect a settlement with Henry I of England and his brother Robert.

While on leave in England and on holiday with his family in Cornwall in September 1927, he reappraised his life.

While in England with The Byrds in the summer of 1968, Parsons left the band due to his concerns over a planned concert tour of South Africa, citing opposition to that country's apartheid policies.

While in New England, Hawks often attended theatrical shows in nearby Boston.

While the 1997 Labour government devolved power to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, it refused to created a devolved Assembly or parliament for England, planning instead to introduce eight regional assemblies around England to devolve power to the regions.

While emigration began to tail off in England and Wales after the First World War, it continued apace in Scotland, with 400, 000 Scots, ten per cent of the population, estimated to have left the country between 1921 and 1931.

While current field hockey appeared in the mid-18th century in England, primarily in schools, it was not until the first half of the 19th century that it became firmly established.

While on a trip to England in 1810, Newburyport merchant Francis Cabot Lowell was allowed to tour the British textile factories, but not take notes.

While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of Test cricket records, and still holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by an England bowler.

While in Rome during the winter of 1820-21, Severn wrote numerous letters about Keats to their mutual friends in England, in particular William Haslam and Charles Armitage Brown, who then shared them with other members of the Keats circle, including the poet's fiancée, Fanny Brawne.

While bodyline was successful as a tactic ( England regained the Ashes with a 4 – 1 margin ), Australian crowds regarded it as vicious and unsporting.

While Mary's grandparents, Ferdinand and Isabella, had retained sovereignty of their own realms during their marriage, there was no precedent to follow in England.

While on his journey to England, Mellitus received a letter from Gregory allowing Augustine to convert pagan temples to Christian churches, and to convert pagan animal sacrifices into Christian feasts, to ease the transition to Christianity.

While the Office for National Statistics and others describe the United Kingdom as a " nation state ", others, including a then Prime Minister, describe it as a " multinational state ", and the term Home Nations is used to describe the four national teams that represent the four nations of the United Kingdom ( England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales ).

* 1272 – While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.

While censorious political correctness threatened Punch and Judy performances in the UK and other English speaking countries for a time, the show is having one of its cyclical recurrences and can now be seen not only in England, Wales, and Ireland, but also in Canada, the United States ( including Puerto Rico ), Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.