As the years moved on a sudden decline in the use of long flash-back sequences set in around 1917, but on the other hand the use of a transition to and from a brief single shot memory scene remained quite common in American films.

Also, in order to change a string from one tone to another during a performance, a harp player must take one entire hand off the harp for a moment and switch the lever — this may cause an acoustic gap in a performance, as for a brief moment only one hand will be in use.

They are capable of running rapidly in brief sprints up to, diving up to, and climbing trees proficiently when young through use of their strong claws.

Still made today, they remain a popular choice even for home use since they fold up to the size of a brief case and thus are easy to store.

Though their effects remain somewhat less well understood owing to a lack of experimental data, they have been detected in various ecological habitats far removed from industrial activity such as the Arctic, demonstrating diffusion and bioaccumulation after only a relatively brief period of widespread use.

It was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the acronym SFWA after a very brief use of the SFFWA.

After a brief boom in the 1980s, only a few thousand enthusiasts continue to use it.

Edison went on to carry out a brief but intense campaign to ban the use of AC or to limit the allowable voltage for safety purposes.

The success though was brief, as Short borrowed most of the $ 9. 4 million he had use to pay for the team.

The word Unitarian had been circulating in private letters in England, in reference to imported copies of such publications as the Library of the Polish Brethren who are called Unitarians ( 1665 ), Henry Hedworth was the first to use the word " Unitarian " in print in English ( 1673 ), and the word first appears in a title in Stephen Nye's A brief history of the Unitarians, called also Socinians ( 1687 ).

* The usurper Wang Mang ( who rules during a brief interregnum known as the Xin Dynasty ) outlaws the private purchase and use of crossbows.

* Stephen Baxter's science fiction novel Transcendent has a brief discussion on the nature of infinity, with an explanation based on the paradox, modified to use starship troopers rather than hotels.

This brief life means culms are ready for harvest and suitable for use in construction within about three to seven years.

In telecommunication, automatic sounding is the testing of selected channels for quality by providing a very brief identifying transmission that may be used by other stations to evaluate connectivity, and availability, and to identify known working channels for immediate or later use for communications or calling.

One classic example of handshaking is that of modems, which typically negotiate communication parameters for a brief period when a connection is first established, and thereafter use those parameters to provide optimal information transfer over the channel as a function of its quality and capacity.

In the early 1940s, in an attempt to reduce the memory disturbance and confusion associated with treatment, two modifications were introduced: the use of unilateral electrode placement and the replacement of sinusoidal current with brief pulse.

Aside from effects in the brain, the general physical risks of ECT are similar to those of brief general anesthesia ; the United States ' Surgeon General's report says that there are " no absolute health contraindications " to its use.

* The Craigdarroch expansion to the game was unavailable for a brief time after the current owners of the castle objected to the use of the estate's name and floor plan without permission.

The use of eggs would have been a brief respite from the Lenten fast.

They contained brief, psychologically taut pieces, acclaimed for their classical diction, telling details, and the skilful use of colour.

The net result was that the ARC format quickly dropped out of common use as the predominant compression format that PC-BBSs used for their file archives, and after a brief period of competing formats, the ZIP format was adopted as the predominant standard.

In brief, this technique makes use of the Stark effect ( or electrochromism ) either to reveal information about the physiochemical or physical properties of a sample using a well-characterized electric field or to reveal information about an electric field using a reference sample with a well-characterized Stark effect.

The discussion above was just a brief overview of the process, so it ’ s difficult for members of the public to delve into the issues and confront the models that planners use.

After disagreements between Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet Union regarding Greece and the People's Republic of Albania, a Tito-Stalin split occurred, followed by Yugoslavia being expelled from the Cominform in June 1948 and a brief failed Soviet putsch in Belgrade.

For a brief time in Europe, an unusual form of cannibalism occurred when thousands of Egyptian mummies preserved in bitumen were ground up and sold as medicine.

A brief famine of an unknown size occurred, perhaps caused by this financial crisis, but according to Suetonius a result of Caligula's seizure of public carriages, according to Seneca because grain imports were disturbed by Caligula using boats for a pontoon bridge.

Groucho's son Arthur published a brief account of an incident that occurred when Arthur was a child.

There was a brief exchange that occurred when the surviving members reunited in Aspen, Colorado, in 1998 for a show that was broadcast on HBO and has since become available on video.

A brief revival of the original title occurred from 1924-27.

A brief reunion occurred, however, later that year for " Sax and Violins ," an original single that appeared on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders ' Until the End of the World.

A brief lull in exploration occurred while the mess of guidelines laid from Chamber 9 was sorted out until John Parker progressed first to the large, dry, inlet passage of Chamber 20 and thence followed the River Axe upstream to Chamber 22 where the way on appeared to be lost.

The origin of the movement was in 1978, when the brief liberalization known as Beijing Spring occurred after the Cultural Revolution.

The strength in the Dow occurred despite a brief recession in 1949 and other global conflicts which started a short time later including the latter stages of the Chinese Civil War, the Greek Civil War, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Cartier's first two encounters with aboriginal peoples in Canada on the north side of Chaleur Bay, most likely the Mi ' kmaq, were brief ; some trading occurred.

A brief reunion for a single " Sax and Violins " in 1991 occurred before again dissolving.

After disagreements between Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet Union regarding Greece and Albania, a Tito-Stalin split occurred, followed by Yugoslavia being expelled from the Cominform in June 1948 and a brief failed Soviet putsch in Belgrade.

A brief shoot-out occurred until the robbers managed to escape.

During his brief pontificate, the Catholic Emancipation occurred in the United Kingdom, and the July Revolution ( 1830 ) in France – after which he recognised Louis Philippe ( 1830 – 48 ) as the de facto king of France after the toppling of Charles X.

A massive, albeit brief, cavalry clash occurred and in the melee, both Nostitz and Rothkirch were wounded and the Austrians were driven back, leaving behind the cannon they had captured moments earlier and taking refuge behind the infantry.

The exhaustion of the French troops was such that, towards 16: 00 a brief moment of panic occurred at Wagram.

The Beijing Spring () refers to a brief period of political liberalization in the People's Republic of China which occurred in 1977 and 1978.

On 21 October 1969 occurred the Tacnazo insurrection, a brief non-violent demonstration of the Tacna artillery regiment in Santiago, led by General Roberto Viaux.

Twin boys were stillborn on 8 April 1822, and a possible brief pregnancy may have occurred within the same year.

Although the principal conflict began in 1075 between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, a brief but significant struggle over investiture also occurred between Henry I of England and the Pope Paschal II in the years 1103 to 1107, and the issue played a minor role in the struggles between church and state in France as well.

A brief increase in his chess activity occurred when he subsequently left his job, but he was forced to decline his invitation to the 2011 British Championship when he later returned to full-time employment.

A brief period where a region was governed almost totally by participatory democracy occurred during the Spanish civil war, from 1936 – 1938, in the parts of Spain controlled by anarchist republicans.

In the second half of the 15th century there occurred a brief conflict, a small war of sorts, with the rivaling community of Szeged.