By the mid-1950s the system was being used in at least sixty British libraries and in a hundred by the 1970s.

By the mid-1950s, largely due to the ecumenical evangelism of Billy Graham, the terms evangelicalism and fundamentalism began to refer to two different approaches.

By the mid-1950s, Bogart's health was failing.

By the mid-1950s the Chinese army had entered the north-east portion of Ladakh.

By the mid-1950s mambo mania had reached fever pitch.

By the mid-1950s, all the great names were gone ; only C. B.

By the mid-1950s, Silver City had become the biggest air cargo carrier in the United Kingdom while annual passenger numbers at its " Ferryfield " base had reached ¼ of a million.

By the mid-1950s the day was virtually ignored, even by churches and veterans ' organizations.

By the mid-1950s, Basie's band had become one of the preeminent backing big bands for some of the most prominent jazz vocalists of the time.

By the mid-1950s the Tōkaidō Line was operating at full capacity, and the Ministry of Railways decided to revisit the Shinkansen project.

By the mid-1950s, rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States, deriving most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, boogie woogie, jazz, and swing music, and was also influenced by gospel, country and western, and traditional folk music.

By the mid-1950s, the people's fears were confirmed.

By the mid-1950s, the building had been expanded, and became an elementary school.

By the early 20th century, tobacco became king, and by the mid-1950s, Fairmont was considered one of the major tobacco markets in the world.

By the mid-1950s, department store heiress and wife of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Dorothy Buffum Chandler became the de facto leader of the orchestra's board of directors.

By the mid-1950s, Capitol had become a huge company, concentrating on popular music.

By the mid-1950s very few narrowboats traded south of Napton and the southern section was at one point being threatened with closure, although the northern section ( Napton to Coventry ) remained well-used by commercial traffic until the 1960s.

: By the mid-1950s, post-WWII Americans were beginning to relax and enjoy both their new economic and baby booms as their offspring which were just entering their teens.

By the mid-1950s, the bulk of the information cadaver testing could provide had been harvested.

By the mid-1950s the research facilities in the US were second to none, and scientists were drawn to the US for this reason alone.

By the mid-1950s the title was the best selling comic book in the United States, with a monthly circulation of over three million.

By 1946, the airport was already hosting more than a quarter of a million passengers a year, growing to more than a million by the mid-1950s.

By the mid-1950s, Horne was disenchanted with Hollywood and increasingly focused on her nightclub career.

By the mid-1950s, with television and paperback books drawing readers away from comic books in general and superheroes in particular, interest in Quality's characters had declined considerably.

By 16: 00, with the enemy troops besieged in Blenheim and Oberglau, the Allied centre of 81 squadrons ( nine squadrons had been transferred from Cutts ' column ), supported by 18 battalions was firmly planted amidst the French line of 64 squadrons and nine battalions of raw recruits.

By age nine, she was appearing on The Cas Walker Show on both WIVK Radio and WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee.

By 1993 — nine months ahead of schedule — the military had cut personnel from a war-time high of 63, 000 to the level of 32, 000 required by the peace accords.

By age nine he was growing, grinding, bottling and selling his own brand of horseradish sauce, based on his mother's recipe.

By 1842, a list of nine elements believed to be essential to plant growth had been compiled, and the discoveries of the German botanists Julius von Sachs and Wilhelm Knop, in the years 1859-65, resulted in a development of the technique of soilless cultivation.

By the age of nine, he was proving himself to be a skilled potter.

By 2006, astronomers had resolved dust disks believed to be Kuiper belt-like structures around nine stars other than the Sun.

By 1768 the core group of nine individuals who would form the nucleus of the Lunar Society had come together with Small at their heart.

By the summer of 1939, the Luftwaffe had nine Jagdgeschwader ( fighter wings ) mostly equipped with Messerschmitt Bf 109, four ' Zerstörergeschwader ( destroyer wings ) equipped with the Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter, 11 Kampfgeschwader ( bomber wings ) equipped with mainly the Heinkel He 111 and the Dornier Do 17Z, and four Sturzkampfgeschwader ( dive bomber wings ).

By contrast, Leto labored for nine nights and nine days for Apollo, according to the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, in the presence of all the first among the deathless goddesses as witnesses: Dione, Rhea, Ichnaea, Themis and the " loud-moaning " sea-goddess Amphitrite.

By the age of nine, Mary could read and write Latin.

By the time Mary was nine years old, it was apparent that Henry and Catherine would have no more children, leaving Henry without a legitimate male heir.

By 1998 Star Trek TV shows, movies, books, videotapes, and licensing provided so much of the studio's profit that " it is not possible to spend any reasonable amount of time at Paramount and not be aware of presence "; filming for Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine required up to nine of the largest of the studio's 36 sound stages.

By contrast a four-straight including the bug can have as many as sixteen outs to complete the straight-Q-J-10-Joker can catch any ace, king, nine, or eight.

By mid-1971, as the termination date of the British treaty relationship ( end of 1971 ) approached, the nine still had not agreed on terms of union.

By diverse adventures she comes in the space of four years into the hands of nine men in varied places.

By contrast in 21st century Britain, nearly half of all children are born outside marriage, and nine in ten newlyweds have been cohabitating.

By late 2003, the state of California and the Santa Clara Valley Water District had confirmed a groundwater plume currently extending over nine miles through residential and agricultural communities.

By 1963, the Hanford Site was home to nine nuclear reactors along the Columbia River, five reprocessing plants on the central plateau, and more than 900 support buildings and radiological laboratories around the site.

By his wife Maria he had a family of nine sons and six daughters.

By Hugh X, Isabella had nine more children.

By 1993 — nine months ahead of schedule — the military had cut personnel from a war-time high of 63, 000 to the level of 32, 000 required by the peace accords.