Departments

Examples

• His command was subdivided into four departments, but the commanders all reported to Sherman and were subject to his orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And this schedule reaches out into the shipping and mailing departments, so arranging it that the first copies off the press are speeded to the far sections of the country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Pyrenes to the number of 175 are distributed about the departments for combatting electrical fires. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There is perhaps more than ordinary coincidence in the association of Edison with two such active departments of progress. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It never wore out, though it was always going round and round in all the State Departments. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You'll find out when the business passes through each of these stages by asking at both Departments till they tell you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The economic results from this system have been wonderful, as will be shown in some of the departments yet to be described. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The manufacturing policy of the company is to make unit assemblies in different departments and deliver them to the final assembly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Ronalds has since received a small pension, not however as a reward for his ingenious telegraph invention, but for his services in other departments of science. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He has an extraordinary faculty for figures, and audits the books in some of the government departments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the National side the forces confronting him were divided into, at first three, then four separate departments. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The little Gradgrinds had cabinets in various departments of science too. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Make all requisitions upon the chiefs of their respective departments in the field with me at City Point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the unit assembly departments are received the finished parts from the machine shop. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The fabric is then ready to go with the milled rubber to the various departments of the factory to be incorporated into rubber goods. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Too much credit cannot, therefore, be awarded to the quartermaster and commissary departments for the zeal and efficiency displayed by them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I took them to railroad buildings, electric-light plants, fire departments, and showed them a great variety of things. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Union armies were now divided into nineteen departments, though four of them in the West had been concentrated into a single military division. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This is one of the most interesting departments of natural history, and may almost be said to be its very soul. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Various unit assemblies, small machine departments, and store rooms are located here in addition to all the body work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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