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 1930, Pickford's career as an actress had greatly faded.

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 prevailing over other claimants for the loyalties of men, the nation-state maintained an adequate measure of certainty and order within its territorial borders.

By monitoring, we mean some system of control over the types of information sent from the various centers.

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 making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.

By July 1, six weeks from now, motel-keepers all over the nation will, by 6 p.m., be switching on that bleak -- to motorists -- sign, `` No Vacancy ''.

By the next morning, she had turned the paper over.

By the Rule of St Benedict, which, until the Cluniac reforms, was the norm in the West, the abbot has jurisdiction over only one community.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

By terms of the treaty, moreover, Alfred was to have control over the Mercian city of London and its mints — at least for the time being.

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 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

By this time Colangelo and the other partners were embroiled in a dispute over the financial health and direction of the Diamondbacks ( and notably including over $ 150 million in deferred compensation to many players who were key members of the 2001 World Series winning team and others ).

By the 4th century AD artists had started debating in writing over the proper goals of art as well.

By the early 5th century Britain had been Roman for over three hundred and fifty years.

By stripping it of its powers over temples, Augustus effectively destroyed the office, by taking from it its original function.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

By election time, the economy was souring and Bush saw his approval rating plummet to just slightly over 40 %.

By the time the army had expanded to over 200, 000 men with hundreds of thousands of more reserve troops.

By 1867, it ballooned to over 400 members, including some clubs from as far away as San Francisco and Louisiana.

By lowering the activation energy, the enzyme speeds up that reaction by a rate of 10 < sup > 11 </ sup > or more: a reaction that would normally take over 3, 000 years to complete spontaneously might take less than a second with an enzyme.

By then Jacob had become over 100 years old.

The money was devoted largely to developing “ technical advice on the conduct of defoliation and anti-crop activities in Southeast Asia .” By the end of fiscal year 1962, the Chemical Corps had let or were negotiating contracts for over one thousand chemical defoliants.

By measuring the mean squared displacement over a time interval along with the universal gas constant, the temperature, the viscosity, and the particle radius, Avogadro's number can be determined.