By 1906, he was studying music full-time ; by 1907, he began composition lessons.

By 1906 Shepard had become a successful illustrator, having produced work for illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables, David Copperfield, and Tom Brown's Schooldays, as well as an illustration for Punch.

By 1906, the total number of Chinese coolies had swelled to 50, 000, almost entirely recruited and shipped by CEMC.

By today's standards, the quake ranged from 8. 4 to 8. 8 on the Richter Scale, slightly stronger than the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

By 1906 it was considered that Britain's only likely naval enemy was Germany.

By 1906 Germany was already spending 60 % of revenue upon the army.

By early 1906, Scott had sounded out the RGS about the possible funding of a future Antarctic expedition.

By 1906, youth programs were in full swing with more than 200 boys competing in the National Matches.

By 1906, Thurman was offering built-in central cleaning systems that used compressed air, yet featured no dust collection.

By early 1906, Leo and Gertrude Stein's studio had many paintings by Henri Manguin, Pierre Bonnard, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Honoré Daumier, Henri Matisse, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

By 1906, sales totaled nearly $ 3 million.

By 1906, Argentina had cleared the last remnants of the 1890 default and a year later the country re-entered the international bond markets.

By 1906 manufacturers other than Michtom and Steiff had joined in and the craze for " Roosevelt Bears " was such that ladies carried them everywhere, children were photographed with them, and Roosevelt used one as a mascot in his bid for re-election.

By 1906 the number of Tongmenghui members reached 963 people.

By 1906, ten years after the city incorporated, its population had grown to 3, 750.

By 1906 New York interests had bought Gantt ’ s Quarry from its Ocala investors, and this site emerged as the center of marble-working activity.

By 1906, 650 carloads of oranges and 250 carloads of lemons were shipped annually by rail.

" By 1906, Whittier College was an educational institution with laboratories, boarding halls, a large gymnasium and athletic fields.

By 1906 the library was converted into another classroom, a third teacher was hired, and a two-year high school was established.

By 1906, West Terre Haute had eleven mines in operation, served by both railroads and wagon roads.

By the early 1900s, Ulysses was the last surviving town in Grant County, Kansas, and by 1906, Ulysses was faced with increasingly hard times and desperation.

By 1906, Taylor employed more than 200 women.

By 1902, a post office was established, and in 1906, a station was added to the Minneapolis and Rainy River Railway.

By 1906, the electric power plant had been moved to the lower level of Verndale's vacant courthouse building, which was destroyed by fire on January 5, 1912.

By the second day Michelangelo began to worry ; ;

By the mid-19th century scientists began to arrive en masse to study the geology and ecology of the region.

By the age of twenty, Ferdinando I, Duke of Mantua, began commissioning works from him, and he was also employed by local jewelers for figurative designs.

By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.

By the 1960s, as VFL clubs increasingly recruited the best players from other states, they began to dominate the competition and the last match was played in 1976, with North Adelaide being the last non-Victorian winner in 1972.

By the 16th century, a cappella polyphony had further developed, but gradually, the cantata began to take the place of a cappella forms.

By the 3rd century BC, the rival armies of Carthage and Rome began to invade and fight for control of the Iberian Peninsula.

By the age of 64 after forty years imprisonment ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá was freed by the Young Turks and he and his family began to live in relative safety.

By the time World War I began, attempts to use anthrax were directed at animal populations.

By the early 20th century the Liberals stance began to shift towards " New Liberalism ", what would today be called social liberalism: a belief in personal liberty with a support for government intervention to provide minimum levels of welfare.

By the age of four, he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano ; his mother began formally teaching him the next year.

By the early 1910s, Jefferson began traveling frequently to Dallas, where he met and played with fellow blues musician Lead Belly.

By the 1890s, the portion from 23rd Street to 34th Street was so brightly illuminated by electrical advertising signs, that people began calling it " The Great White Way.

By winning operationally, strategically it could not keep up the momentum as the superiority of the Soviet Union's industrial base and economy began to take effect.

By the early 2000s ( decade ), however, the university quietly reexamined its position on accreditation as degree mills proliferated and various government bureaucracies, such as law enforcement agencies, began excluding BJU graduates on the grounds that the university did not appear on appropriate federal lists.

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

By the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors began to subdue and colonize the region of present-day Chile, and the territory became a colony from 1540 to 1818, when it gained independence from Spain.

By the end of the 2nd millennium BC, the Zhou Dynasty began to emerge in the Yellow River valley, overrunning the territory of the Shang.

By the fourth century, however, " confessors "— people who had confessed their faith not by dying but by word and life — began to be venerated publicly.

By this time his interest in writing fiction began to lessen and he turned to creating sculptures from soft rock such as soapstone.

By the 1990s Conservative Judaism continued to flourish, yet dichotomies of practice and belief, which had been present for years, began to formulate.

By the 1960s, college cheerleaders began hosting workshops across the nation, teaching fundamental cheer skills to high-school-age girls.

By August 1954 Malenkov's role as de facto head of government was over ; Nikolai Bulganin began signing Council of Ministers decrees ( a right beholden to the Chairman ) and the Presidium gave in to Khrushchev's wishes to replace Malenkov.