"Organised" Quotes from Famous Books
... Crile of Cleveland has organised his clinic in the direction of arranging that the operation shall be performed without the patient knowing that it is to take place—what he calls "stealing the goitre"—the thorough preparation of the patient for the operation, the minimising the risk from ... — Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... With the above appellation, a Company has been organised, under the Direction of an Impecunious Duchess, assisted by a Committee of Upper Class Ladies, whose want of ready money has become urgent, for the purpose of selling, at a fixed sale of prices, to any low-bred parvenue who can afford to pay for it, the entree to those exclusive and hitherto ... — Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 5, 1890 • Various
... head nurse has organised a little dressmaking class, the wife of a former president, Sir B. McMahon, having given her L10 with which to buy the necessary materials. The results will be divided equally among those who did the work, but ... — Turkish Prisoners in Egypt - A Report By The Delegates Of The International Committee - Of The Red Cross • Various
... for Psychical Research was founded at the beginning of 1882, for the purpose of making an organised and systematic attempt to investigate various sorts of debatable phenomena which are prima facie inexplicable on any generally recognised hypothesis. From the recorded testimony of many competent witnesses, past and present, including observations ... — Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research • Michael Sage
... Weightman's plans and enterprises were complicated, though his principle of action was always simple—to get good value for every expenditure and effort. The banking-house of which he was the brain, the will, the absolutely controlling hand, was so admirably organised that the details of its direction took but little time. But the scores of other interests that radiated from it and were dependent upon it,—or perhaps it would be more accurate to say, that contributed to its ... — The Unknown Quantity - A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales • Henry van Dyke
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