By the 1840s, students at Rugby School were playing a game in which players were able to pick up the ball and run with it, a sport later known as Rugby football.

By the early 1840s, instructions for crochet were being published in England, particularly by Eleanor Riego de la Blanchardiere and Frances Lambert.

By the 1840s, Pittsburgh was one of the largest cities west of the Allegheny Mountains.

By the 1860s it was apparent that wood sourced from some condemned slave ships ( possibly a Brazilian ship ) from the 1840s were infested by termites (“ white ants ”).

By the 1840s, India was no longer capable of supplying the vast quantities of cotton fibers needed by mechanized British factories, while shipping bulky, low-price cotton from India to Britain was time-consuming and expensive.

By the 1840s, however, large scale sheep ranches were exporting large quantities of wool to the textile mills of England.

By the 1840s, iron boxes were in use as well as wooden ones.

By the 1840s, some Hicksite Quakers determined to bring women and men together in the faith as an expression of their spiritual equality.

By the 1840s, the memory of Bolívar proved useful for the construction of a sense of nationhood.

By the 1840s, German settlers had overtaken the Mennonites as the dominant segment of the population.

By the 1840s other writers are using " Scots Law ", and this usage is now standard ( although not universal ) world-wide.

By the 1840s, Lynn's ill-health blunted his enthusiasm for Aintree.

By the 1840s, the camellia was at the height of its fashion as the luxury flower.

By the 1840s, she was an acknowledged part of the cultural life in Sweden and her writing was translated into many languages.

By the 1840s Whitechapel, along with the enclaves of Wapping, Aldgate, Bethnal Green, Mile End, Limehouse, Bow, Bromley-by-Bow, Poplar, Shadwell and Stepney ( collectively known today as " the East End "), had evolved, or devolved, into classic " Dickensian " London, with problems of poverty and overcrowding.

By the end of the 1840s he began to focus his energies on utopian communities.

By the 1840s, Methodist, Universalist and Presbyterian congregations had taken root.

By the 1840s, settlers were moving into the area, and several missionaries lived in and near " Peoria Village ".

By the late 1840s, however, tensions between the village of Mattapoisett and the town led to a battle which sought to redraw the town lines and effectively take over Sippican Village.

By the 1840s and 1850s, white settlers began hay, grain, and livestock operations in what became eastern Multnomah County.

By the 1840s, Pittsburgh had grown to one of the largest cities west of the Allegheny Mountains.

By the 1840s, some 2, 000 clocks were being completed each year.

By the 1840s, there were a number of proposals to build railways in the region, and the River Don Navigation Company acted to ensure they would remain in business.

By the 1840s, after New York, the port of New Orleans was the second largest importer of coffee.

By March 2002, the British company Advanced Computer Solutions ( ACS ) bought all the rights from the South African holders and also acquired the Caddie operation within South Africa.

By 1867, the ACS had assisted in the movement of more than 13, 000 Americans to Liberia.

By 1991, the NSW Government executed a contract with Australasian Correctional Services Pty Limited ( ACS ) for design and construction, and another contract with the same company for the management of the centre.

By FY1996 ACS became the fourth largest commercial outsourcer in the U. S. Currently, ACS is best known for its Transportation Solutions Group ( TSG ), which supports transportation services including electronic toll collection, management of cities ’ parking systems, and photo traffic enforcement.

By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

By now Curt was seeing clearly again.

By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

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 now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

By our policy the West was -- is -- split.

By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.

By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.

By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.

By odd coincidence, on the evening of her return Shelley chose to read Parisina, which was the latest of the titled poet's successes.

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 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 comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

By Nov. 8, 1958, weakness, specifically involving the pelvic and thigh musculature, was pronounced, and a common complaint was `` difficulty in stepping up on to curbs ''.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.