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By the mid-1880s, it was virtually all black, home to working-class people who made their livings in Houston's eastside ship channel and industrial areas or as domestics for wealthy Houstonians.
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By the mid-1880s, the U. S. federal government had introduced a tax of two cents per pound, and manufacturers needed an expensive license to make or sell the product.
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By the mid-1880s the Tramway was finding it difficult to cover the operating expenses of either goods or passenger operations.
By the mid-1880s, all three parties had been successful in converting substantial numbers of Baganda, some of whom attained important positions at court.
By the mid-1880s, Beaver Island had become the largest supplier of fresh-water fish consumed in the United States, but overfishing and changes in technology brought this bonanza to an end by the beginning of the 20th century.
By the mid-1880s U. S. railroads were using more steel rails than iron in building new or replacement tracks.
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By the mid-1880s, Johnston became " carried away with the idea.
By the mid-1880s he began to concentrate more on painting the Australian bush, the works for which he became notable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By then, the Texas Playboys were virtually two bands: one a fiddle-guitar-steel band with rhythm section and the second a first-rate big band able to play the day's swing and pop hits as well as Dixieland.
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By 1940, the institute had outgrown itself as more than just a small institute and was virtually functioning as an independent university.
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By 1958, virtually all farming was being carried out collectively, and the co-operatives were increasingly merged into larger productive units.
By the new millennium, Nauru was virtually bankrupt.
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By 1990 the government had virtually lost control over economic conditions.
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By the 1856 presidential election, the party was virtually defunct.
By the 1970s virtually all crystals used in electronics were synthetic.
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By the 1990s, with cartoons shows such as Fish Police, SWAT Kats and the animated specials The Halloween Tree and Arabian Nights, the sound effects were virtually nonexistent, being replaced with newer, digitally recorded sounds ( mostly from Sound Ideas ), as well as the Looney Tunes sound library by Treg Brown.
By the end of the 1960s there were virtually no isolated power systems remaining in the lower forty-eight states and southern Canada ; practically all power companies were attached to large interconnections.
By the early 17th century, virtually all pirates on China's coast were various Chinese ethnicities such as the Han, though they continued labeled as wokou.
By the mid-1950s the day was virtually ignored, even by churches and veterans ' organizations.
By the end of the Third Age, four had been lost, with two lost in Forochel, one in Anduin, and one buried amongst the ruins of the Dark Tower of Barad-dûr ; a fifth had been rendered virtually unusable ( the palantír of Minas Tirith showed only the burning hands of Denethor save to those with the strength of will to turn it elsewhere ).
By using insulin in conjunction with chemotherapy drugs, significantly less drugs ( about 10-15 % of a standard dose ) can be targeted more specifically and more effectively to cancer cell populations, thus virtually eliminating dose-related side-effects while claiming enhancing antineoplastic effects.
By the early 18th century the Tocobaga had been virtually annihilated, having fallen victim to European diseases from which they had no immunity, as well as European conflicts.
By 1938 virtually all of Finnegans Book was in print in the transition serialisation and in the booklets, with the exception of Book IV.
By the end, most of the First Hundred are dead, and virtually all who remain have fled to a hidden refuge established years earlier by Ai and her followers.
By the 1970s, music hall entertainment was virtually dead.
By early 1992, the Master System's sales were virtually nonexistent in North America and production ceased.
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