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By 1900, the tortoises were nearly extinct, and a crew would often have to hunt for three days to find one.
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By 1900, he was a world-renowned artist.
By 1900 the advertising agency had become the focal point of creative planning, and advertising was firmly established as a profession.
By 1900, the family was farming southeast of Streetman, Texas, and Lemon Jefferson's birth date is indicated as September 1893 in the 1900 census.
By 1900, most of the industrializing nations were on some form of gold standard, with paper notes and silver coins constituting the circulating medium.
By 1900 the demand for Beaux's work brought clients from Washington, D. C., to Boston, prompting the artist to move to New York City ; it was there she spent the winters, while summering at Green Alley, the home and studio she had built in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
By 1900, administrative control was transferred to New Zealand ; in 1965 residents chose self-government in free association with New Zealand.
By 1850 the German states were catching up, and by 1900 Germany was a world leader in industrialization, along with Britain and the United States.
By 1900, he had acquired land and built a villa on the lake, now known as the " Villa Museo Puccini.
By 1900, Germany's economy matched Britain's, allowing colonial expansion and a naval race.
By 1900 Germany was a world leader in industrialization, along with Britain and the United States.
By 1900 Scotland had 3500 miles of railway ; their main economic contribution was moving supplies in and product out for heavy industry, especially coal-mining.
By 1900 the situation had improved somewhat, but 44 % of black people remained illiterate.
By about 1900 one finds managers trying to place their theories on what they regarded as a thoroughly scientific basis ( see scientism for perceived limitations of this belief ).
By 1900, two primary types of mimeographs had come into use: a single-drum machine and a dual drum machine.
By 1900, seventy-nine people owned half of the country's land.
By 1900, slaves comprised up to one-third of Ethiopia's population.
By the Imperial Session held in Washington, D. C. in 1900, there were 55, 000 members and 82 Temples.
By 1900, hand-held cameras were available.
By 1900, restaurants serving Chinese cuisine from Canton and Shanghai offered a simple ramen dish of noodles ( cut rather than hand pulled ), a few toppings, and a broth flavored with salt and pork bones.
By 1900, Wiesbaden, with a population of 86, 100, hosted 126, 000 visitors annually.
By January 1900 this would become the largest force Britain had ever sent overseas, amounting to some 180, 000 men with further reinforcements being sought.
By September 1900, the British were nominally in control of both Republics, with the exception of the northern part of Transvaal.
By 1900, the White House staff included one " secretary to the president " ( then the title of the president's chief aide ), two assistant secretaries, two executive clerks, a stenographer, and seven other office personnel.
By 1900 Cripple Creek and its sister city, Victor, were substantial mining communities.
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By the end of the 19th century, most of the Pinta Island tortoises had been wiped out due to hunting.
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By now Harmony could see that most of the adults in the train were winded and resting, or else siphoned off from the games by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering above them.
By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.
By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.
By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.
By this time, as we shall see, the Tories were already planning to `` punish '' Steele for his political writing by expelling him from the House of Commons.
By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.
By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.
By political, economic, geographic and natural standards, they were justified in doing so.
By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.
By comparison, Fritzie and Laura Andrus were quivering fledglings.
By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.
By this time there is little doubt but what election plans were complete.
By 1960 there were such schools in all but 4 states.
By fall, 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort Snelling, but most of them were sent on to Galena and St. Louis, with a few going as far as Vevay, Indiana, a notable Swiss center in the United States.
By the end of the nineteenth century, in 1893, when the Big Three, Columbia, and Penn were populous centers of learning, Dartmouth graduated only sixty-nine.
By the time her hindquarters were in a standin' position, her knees were on the ground in a prayin' attitude.
By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.
By 1910 the courts were crowded with cases, many of them brought by freebooters who trafficked in disputed inventions.
By then, the stranger was thanking Haney profusely and had one arm around his shoulders as if he were an old friend.
By comparing the form of several yupanas, researchers found that calculations were based using the Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 and powers of 10, 20 and 40 as place values for the different fields in the instrument.
By 1840 there were still only ten colonial bishops for the Church of England ; but even this small beginning greatly facilitated the growth of Anglicanism around the world.
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