Before leaving, he met Milton Caniff, and the two became lifelong friends.

Before commercial Internet access became common, these networks of BBSes provided regional and international e-mail and message bases.

Before Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's ( NYCO ) 6 ( Broadway below Times Square ), 7 ( Broadway and Columbus Avenue ), and 11 ( Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues ), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 ( Kingsbridge ) and M104 ( Broadway Branch ).

Before chemistry became a science, alchemists had designed arcane symbols for both metals and common compounds.

Before the RISC philosophy became prominent, many computer architects tried to bridge the so called semantic gap, i. e. to design instruction sets that directly supported high-level programming constructs such as procedure calls, loop control, and complex addressing modes, allowing data structure and array accesses to be combined into single instructions.

Before the buildup to the war gay servicemembers were court-martialed, imprisoned, and dishonorably discharged, but in wartime commanding officers found it difficult to convene court-martial boards of commissioned officers and the administrative blue discharge became the military's standard method for handling gay and lesbian personnel.

Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published: " And death shall have no dominion ", " Before I Knocked " and " The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower ".

Before digital technology became widespread, for many decades, the scanned data was transmitted as analog.

Before rail fins became ( extremely ) popular, this tendency of " single fins " led to riders " nursing " turns-this tendency was a significant limiting factor on performance.

Before gelatin became widely available as a commercial product, the most typical gelatin dessert was " calf's foot jelly ".

Before long, a falcon representing Horus became the norm as the animal on top, with the individual Pharaoh's symbol usually appearing in the box beneath the falcon, and above the stripes representing the palace.

Before she became associated with Greek mythology, she had many similarities with Artemis ( wilderness, and watching over wedding ceremonies )

Before the 18th century the Kalevala poetry was common throughout Finland and Karelia but in the 18th century it began to disappear in Finland, first in western Finland, because European rhymed poetry became more common in Finland.

Before Digital Command Control became available, this was one way of controlling two trains separately on the same track.

Before the latter became terminally ill, Bismarck did not expect he would live to see Wilhelm ascend to the throne, and thus had no strategy to deal with him.

Before leaving school, towards the end of 1855, he became assistant to the painter and professor Louis ( Lodewijk ) Jan de Taeye, whose courses in history and historical costume he had greatly enjoyed at the Academy.

Before the start of the 1994 season, San Diego was not expected to do well because they had so many newcomers via the draft and free agency ; the Chargers ended up 22 new players on their roster and 10 of them became starters.

Before cable-ready TV sets became common in the late 1980s, an electronic tuning device called a cable converter box was needed to receive the additional analog cable TV channels and transpose or convert the selected channel to analog radio frequency ( RF ) for viewing on a regular TV set on a single channel, usually VHF channel 3 or 4.

Before Paine it had been possible to be both a Christian and a deist ; now such a religious outlook became virtually untenable.

Before his conversion, Saul ( who later became better known as Paul of Tarsus ) puts followers of Jesus in prison.

Before any of the scandalous activity became widely known, Harding's popularity began to ebb, but he responded with determination to run for re-election, despite strong support emerging for the very popular Henry Ford for the Democrats.

Before he became a monk, Simon handed his county of the Vexin over to King Philip.

Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet ( 1951 ) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U. S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.

Before motorized transport became widespread, drummers played a key role in military conflicts.

A popular graffito of the 1970s was the legend " Dick Nixon Before He Dicks You ", reflecting the hostility of the youth culture to that U. S. president.

Before the launch of tubgirl. com, this image was featured in a rotten. com story " Fecal Japan " claiming that the subject matter is popular in Japan, and in a San Francisco Chronicle article by author Violet Blue, as well as being the subject of a joke by Gizmodo.

Before King, many popular writers found their efforts to make their books serious blue-penciled by their editors.

Before long distance telephone services were readily available or affordable, telegram services were very popular and the only way to convey information speedily over very long distances.

Before receptions — a social event that is structured around a receiving line, and usually held in the afternoon, with only light refreshments — became popular, weddings were more typically celebrated with wedding breakfasts ( for those whose religious traditions encouraged morning weddings ) and wedding balls ( for those who were married in the evening ).

Before disappearing again, he helps the owner get the popular Irish song Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral on his juke box and leaves him a gift turkey.

Before this, Nuno Álvares Pereira, constable of Portugal, had gained his popular title of " The Holy Constable " by twice defeating the invaders, at the Battle of Atoleiros and at the Battle of Trancoso in the district of Guarda.

Before the marriage of Lady Diana Spencer to her grandson Prince Charles, and after Diana's death, Queen Elizabeth – known for her personal and public charm – was by far the most popular member of the royal family.

Before long, variants had passed into the popular imagination, changing as they went.

Before entering politics, the young Jimmy Walker worked as a songwriter, his most popular composition being " Will You Love Me in December ( as You Do in May )?

Before the widespread use of Unix, TOPS-10 was a particularly popular system in universities, and in the early ARPANET community.

The Kung Bushmen were described as ' The Harmless People ' in a popular work by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas in 1958, while Lawrence Keeley's 1996 War Before Civilization suggested that regular warfare without modern technology was conducted by most groups throughout human history, including most Native American tribes.

Before wristwatches became popular in the 1920s, most watches were pocket watches, which often had covers and were carried in a pocket and attached to a watch chain or watch fob.

Before World War II, when the first modern hotel was built ( i. e. H Cerna, 1930 ) it remained a popular destination with Western Europeans, who lent the town a refined elegance.

Before he left Oxford ( sometime in 1600 or 1601 ), he wrote and published three long poems in popular Elizabethan styles ; none appears to have been especially successful, and one, his book of satires, ran afoul of the Anglican Church's ban on verse satire and was burned.

Before the playoffs, Torrey made the difficult decision to trade longtime and popular veterans Billy Harris and defenseman Dave Lewis to the Los Angeles Kings for second line center Butch Goring.

Before it was a town, it was a popular gathering place for railroad workers.

Before the incident, Pleasureland and Muller's Park were popular summer destinations that had since the 1950s and earlier ( Muller's was built in 1935 ) attracted families from across the Tri-state area.

Before he came to England, Robert had begun the construction of a new abbey church at Jumièges, in the new Romanesque style which was then becoming popular, and introduced to Normandy the two-towered western facade from the Rhineland.

Before ABC Sports even became a formal division of the network, Scherick and ABC programming chief Tom Moore pulled off many programming deals involving the most popular American sporting events.

Before these inflatable fields became available and popular, speedball fields were commonly constructed of various rigid building materials, such as plywood and framing timber, shipping pallets, even concrete and plastic drainage pipe.

Before 1868, there were three main forms of Shinto: Shrine Shinto, the most popular type ; Folk ( or Popular ) Shinto, practiced by the peasants ; and Imperial Household Shinto, practiced by the imperial family of Japan.