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By 1959, the league was down to six teams, and by 1964, there were only four, but by the end of the 1970s there were eight teams.
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By 1959 the Coins and Medals office suite, completely destroyed during the war, was rebuilt and re-opened, attention turned towards the gallery work with new tastes in design leading to the remodelling of Robert Smirke's Classical and Near Eastern galleries.
By 1959, the company had dealers across the U. S. and began selling the 310 ( known as Bluebird domestically ).
By the end of January 1959 the new army had reached a strength of around 2, 000 officers and soldiers.
Lemmon played the piano and recorded his own versions of Monroe's trademark songs, I Wanna Be Loved By You and I'm Through With Love, for the album which was released in 1959 as A Twist of Lemmon / Some Like It Hot.
By paying the collectivized peasants low state-controlled prices for their product, and using the surplus thus extracted to pay for industrial development, the state carried out a series of three-year plans, which brought industry's share of the economy from 47 % in 1946 to 70 % in 1959, despite the devastation of the Korean War.
By 1959, the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash, the departure of Elvis for the army, the retirement of Little Richard to become a preacher, prosecutions of Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, and the breaking of the payola scandal ( which implicated major figures, including Alan Freed, in bribery and corruption in promoting individual acts or songs ), gave a sense that the initial rock and roll era had come to an end.
By November 1959 his wife had found a London apartment, but Wright's illness and " four hassles in twelve days " with British immigration officials ended his desire to live in England.
By 1959 he had earned two Pulitzer Prizes, three New York Drama Critics ' Circle Awards, three Donaldson Awards, and a Tony Award.
By 1959 McLamore and Edgarton were operating several locations within the Miami-Dade area and were growing at a fast clip.
By 1959, Edmund Cooper's Seed of Light was being criticized for dealing with an old-hat subject ( though it is often accounted the author's best novel.
By 1959 the first motel leases had been granted and Eddie Connellan had constructed an airstrip close to the northern side of Uluru.
By 1959, the last of the immediate Fickert family were gone, joining their kin who had gone before in the tiny family cemetery just up the hill from the main house.
By 1959, tensions rose to the point where the Metropolitan Municipalities Commission, a predecessor of the Twin Cities-wide Metropolitan Council, asked the then-State Attorney General Walter Mondale to contest the Hilltop charter to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
By 1959, Vandalia was outgrowing its " village " status, and its citizens voted to make it a council-manager form of government, effectively making the village into a municipal corporation.
By 1959, the first motel leases had been granted and Eddie Connellan had constructed an airstrip close to the northern side of Uluru.
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By the end of the season, he had performed so well that the league made him the unanimous choice for Rookie of the Year.
By the end of the following winter ball season, Brooklyn was one of several major league clubs seeking to sign Clemente.
By the 1960s there was revived interest in minor league baseball for Toledo, and public official Ned Skeldon led the effort to remodel the Lucas County Fairgrounds stadium into a suitable minor league ballpark.
By season's end Carey was dominating Centre Half Forward like no one else in the league, his play trademarked by big marks and long goals.
By now the Saints ' home form had been near restored, with victories in the league against Burnley, Derby, Barnsley and Doncaster, and a draw against Ipswich Town.
By the middle of the next decade, even some Arcadians ( whose league Epaminondas had helped establish in 369 BC ) had turned against them.
By the 1990s, Lowell built a new ballpark and arena, which became home to two minor league sports teams, the Lowell Devils and Lowell Spinners.
By the time of United's penultimate game of the season, he had reached the number of league appearances required for a title winner's medal – his first in 15 seasons as a professional.
By the time Wolves were crushed 6 – 0 by Rotherham United in the FA Cup first round on 16 November 1985, a third of the league season had already gone and Wolves had still yet to put together a run of good results, so a third successive relegation – a humiliation which only Bristol City four seasons earlier had so far suffered – was now looking a real possibility.
By this point in the season, Pottsville and the Chicago Cardinals ( now the Arizona Cardinals ) were the two top teams in the league, having comparable records.
By the fall of 1981, the league was showing what The New York Times described as " feeble flickers of life.
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