By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".

By March 1932, Capp was drawing Colonel Gilfeather, a single-panel, AP-owned property created in 1930 by Dick Dorgan.

By 1930, Hollywood was in upheaval over the coming of " talkies " and many careers ( both actors and directors ) were ruined.

By 1930 Honduras had become the world's leading producer of the fruit, accounting for one-third of the world's supply of bananas.

By 1930 Himmler had persuaded Hitler to run the SS as a separate organisation, although it was still subordinate to the SA.

By 1930 Batavia had more than 500, 000 inhabitants, including 37, 067 Europeans.

By late 1930, audiences had been oversaturated with musicals and studios were forced to cut the music from films that were then being released.

By 1930, modernism had won a place in the establishment, including the political and artistic establishment, although by this time modernism itself had changed.

By 1930, Modernism had entered popular culture.

By 1930 The New Yorker magazine began publishing new and modern ideas by young writers and humorists like Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, E. B.

By the beginning of 1930, Tombaugh's search had reached the constellation of Gemini.

By 1930, quantum mechanics had been further unified and formalized by the work of Paul Dirac and John von Neumann, with a greater emphasis placed on measurement in quantum mechanics, the statistical nature of our knowledge of reality, and philosophical speculation about the role of the observer.

By defeating William Lyon Mackenzie King in the 1930 federal election, he had the misfortune of taking office during the Great Depression.

By 4 December 1930, Eisenstein was en route to Mexico by train, accompanied by Aleksandrov and Tisse.

By 1930 membership was down to around 10, 000.

By the time Powell had left King Edward's School in 1930, he had confirmed his instinctive belief that the Armistice was merely temporary and that Britain would be at war with Germany again.

By 1930, rotary flowmeters were accepted as indirect substitutes.

The original Looney Tunes theatrical series ran from 1930 to 1969 ( the last short being Bugged By A Bee, by Robert McKimson ).

By 1930, Tyrone Guthrie had written plays for the BBC like Matrimonial News ( which consists entirely of the thoughts of a shopgirl awaiting a blind date ) and The Flowers Are Not for You to Pick ( which takes place inside the mind of a drowning man ).

By 1930, the Communist Red Army had established the Chinese Soviet Republic in the provinces of Jiangxi and Fujian around the city of Ruijin, including industrial facilities.

By 1930, Maranzano ’ s chief aides were Bonanno ( as underboss and chief of staff ), Tommy Lucchese and Joseph Magliocco.

" By Sophie Wenzel Ellis in Astounding Stories of Super Science, February 1930 it was referred to as ; " Yet, for all his experience with hero worshippers to put an adamantine crust on his sensibilities, he grew warm-eared under the gaze of these two strangers "

By then, Astaire's tap dancing was recognized as among the best, as Robert Benchley wrote in 1930, " I don't think that I will plunge the nation into war by stating that Fred is the greatest tap-dancer in the world.

By the end of 1930, the Phonofilm business would be liquidated.

By most accounts, she was the love of Pickford's life, the marriage was stormy and filled with highly-charged conflict, followed by lavish making up through the exchange of expensive gifts.

By 1827, he had abandoned law and embarked on a geological career that would result in fame and the general acceptance of uniformitarianism, a working out of the idea proposed by James Hutton a few decades earlier.

By this point in his career, Vertov was clearly and emphatically dissatisfied with narrative tradition, and expresses his hostility towards dramatic fiction of any kind both openly and repeatedly ; he regarded drama as another " opiate of the masses ".

By 1901, Peano was at the peak of his mathematical career.

By 1936 Goren had begun his own bridge career and published the first of his many books on playing bridge, Winning Bridge Made Easy.

By the time Aaron retired, he and his brother held the record for most career home runs by a pair of siblings ( 768 ).

By that time, however, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had taken place, drawing the United States into World War II and ending Robinson's nascent football career.

By the time he made his career defining performance at Woodstock 1999 on July 24, 1999, he was double platinum.

By this time Gosse was " very comfortably off " with the earnings from his books and dividends from his investments, and in 1864 Eliza received a substantial legacy which allowed Gosse to retire from his career as a professional writer and live in " congenial obscurity.

By achieving election as quaestor, a Roman man would earn the right to sit in the Senate and begin to progress along the standard sequence of offices that made up a career in public service.

By this stage in their career, the band were acutely aware of the pressure they were under from EMI, who were unhappy with the lack of chart success of much of the material the band had released since their Positive Touch LP in 1981.

By the time production could begin on the second series, Hendry had quit to pursue a film career.

By working in the area of Combinatory Logic for his entire career, Curry essentially became the founder and biggest name in the field.

By the time he was 21, his father's alcoholism threatened the reputation of the family act, so Keaton and his mother, Myra, left for New York, where Buster Keaton's career swiftly moved from vaudeville to film.

By this time, his career was beginning to wane as younger artists such as Andō Hiroshige became increasingly popular.

By way of introduction to his work, Piazzolla played her a number of his classically-inspired compositions but it was not until he finally played her his tango Triunfal that she immediately congratulated him and encouraged him to pursue his career in tango, recognising that this was where his true musical talent lay.

By 1919, he had carved out a career in bit parts.

By the end of 1982 Doe Maar notched up their first number 1-hit with De Bom, a joint Ernst -/ Henny-composition with the underlying message ' What's the point of making a career / doing your homework when the ( atomic ) bomb can drop at any moment?

By 1917, he was back in Vienna, able to focus on his artistic career.

By the age of 20, he had decided to pursue a career as a comedian.

By 1669 Wren's career was well established and it may have been his appointment as Surveyor of the King's Works in early 1669 that persuaded him that he could finally afford to take a wife.

By this time, Sting was becoming a major star, and he established a career beyond The Police by branching out into acting.

By 1762 he was a full member of the Drury Lane company, and he remained there for the rest of his career, while also playing summer seasons at the Haymarket.

By June 1909, Kilmer had abandoned any aspirations to continue teaching and relocated to New York City where he focused solely on developing a career as a writer.

By 1683 he was already embarked on a military career, fighting in the defense of Vienna against the attempt of the Ottoman Empire to extend their possessions further into Europe.