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 in England, on 29 November 1921, the news of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's death reached Shoghi Effendi, which, according to Wellesley Tudor Pole, the deliverer of the cable, left him " in a state of collapse.

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 he was still on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and before being named to the U. S. Supreme Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. published a short volume called The Common Law, which remains a classic in the field.

While Alden did not participate in the fight ( which left one person dead ) he was the highest-ranking member from Plymouth that the Massachusetts Bay colonists found to arrest.

* February 23 – While the Massachusetts Council debates how to handle the Christian Indians they had exiled to Deer Island on October 13, 1675, a coalition of Indians led by Metacomet attacks colonial settlements just outside of Boston.

* September 1 – September 2 – While Wampanoags and Nipmucks attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, Captain Samuel Moseley commands Massachusetts troops in an attack on the Pennacook tribe.

While the Massachusetts provincial governor William Shirley was given the task of fortifying Fort Oswego and attacking Fort Niagara, Sir William Johnson was to capture Fort St. Frédéric ( at present-day Crown Point, New York ), and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Monckton was to capture Fort Beauséjour on the frontier between Nova Scotia and Acadia.

While waiting for the completion of a new arena in Hartford, the Whalers played the first part of the season at The Big E Coliseum in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

While living in Greenfield, Massachusetts, he was struck by a car and died on December 21, 1982.

While the state of Texas went strongly for Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election, Dimmit County, a traditional stronghold of the Democratic Party, supported U. S. Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, with 2, 365 votes for Kerry to 1, 188 for Bush.

" While at college in Massachusetts, Thompson adopted the stage name Black Francis, and formed The Pixies along with Joey Santiago, Kim Deal, and David Lovering.

While at Boston University he worked at the campus station WTBU before a brief stint at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts.

While still part of Massachusetts, the town was granted as Baker's Town after Captain Thomas Baker in 1736.

While Massachusetts continued to lay claim to the area, it made no further effort to enforce it.

While Banks was campaigning across the North for Greeley, an opponent successfully gathered enough support in his Massachusetts district to defeat him as the joint Liberal-Republican and Democratic candidate.

While Ballard had been interested in the sea since an early age, his work at Woods Hole and his scuba diving experiences off Massachusetts spurred his interest in shipwrecks and their exploration.

While pursuing his masters degree at Northeastern, Jarvis worked at Raytheon in Bedford, Massachusetts, where he was involved in circuit design on the SAM-D missile.

While a significant portion of the student body hails from New England — including nearly 25 % from Massachusetts and 10 % from Maine — recent classes have drawn from an increasingly national and international pool.

While state laws grant full marriage rights ( Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont ) or some or all of the benefits under another name ( New Jersey, Washington, California, Delaware, Illinois, etc.

While on active duty in the Navy, he earned a Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School and a Doctor of Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

While Hutchinson took a leading role as the chief antagonist of the orthodox party, theologically it was Cotton's differences of opinion with the other ministers in Massachusetts that was at the heart of the controversy.

While U. S. Representative George Thatcher of Massachusetts responded with the desire to amend the Fugitive Slave Act, other representatives ' resistance to changing the law forced his proposal to fail.

While the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was closed, students created other projects

While roughly half of the textile workers in North and South Carolina and roughly three fourths in Georgia were on strike at this point, with similar figures in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, workers had started to drift back to work and struck plants were reopening, if with only skeleton crews.

While South Mountain dwindles to mere hills between Gettysburg and Harrisburg, the band of ancient rocks that forms the core of the Blue Ridge continues northeast through the New Jersey and Hudson River highlands, eventually reaching The Berkshires of Massachusetts and the Green Mountains of Vermont.