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, nine kwans had emerged.

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, 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 1834 the art of oratory had reached a very high level in the United States as a literary form.

By the very nature of the situation, it is the union which has been able to select the time and place to bring pressure upon management.

By themselves they may not be able to save the life on this planet, but without them there would be very little left worth saving.

By preying on the sick, by playing callously on the hopes of the desperate, by causing the sufferer to delay proper medical care, these medical ghouls create pain and misery by their very activity.

By this consideration atomic physics provides the underlying theory in plasma physics and atmospheric physics, even though both deal with very large numbers of atoms.

By filling the character pointer memory with values from zero to 1919 this essentially turned the text mode display into a very high resolution graphics mode, with the " font memory ", acting as the high resolution Raster graphics video memory.

By working very hard, one may be able to make this part 5 times faster, but this only reduces the time for the whole computation by a little.

By the early 1960s, the monument had grown very blackened from coal soot and automobile exhaust, and during 1965 – 1966 it was cleaned through bleaching.

As performer and producer he is very well known as KING BEE .. With his second floor filler Back By Dope Demand he scored one of the biggest hiphop hits.

By the 1st century CE, the inhabitants had developed relatively stable, organized societies and spoke languages very much related to the Cambodian or Khmer of the present day.

By this method each bull can serve very many cows, so only a very few of the purebred dairy male calves are needed to provide bulls for breeding.

By design, CITES regulates and monitors trade in the manner of a " negative list " such that trade in all species is permitted and unregulated unless the species in question appears on the Appendices or looks very much like one of those taxa.

By adopting the name Chung-cheng (" central uprightness "), he was choosing a name very similar to the name of Sun Yat-sen, who was ( and still is ) known among Chinese as Zhongshan ( 中山 — meaning " central mountain "), thus establishing a link between the two.

By 916 fleets under Sihtric Cáech and Ragnall, said to be grandsons of Ímar ( that is, they belonged to the same Uí Ímair kindred as the Ímar who was killed in 904 ), were very active in Ireland.

By the late Middle Ages these were a near-universal feature of Western churches, but are now very rare.

By World War I drum kits were characterized by very large bold marching bass drums and many percussion items suspended on and around them, and they became a central part of jazz music, specifically ( but not limited to ) dixieland.

By May 1683 the Ottoman threat to Emperor Leopold I's capital, Vienna, was very real.

By 1898 Georges Méliès was the largest producer of fiction films in France, and from this point onwards his output was almost entirely films featuring trick effects, which were very successful in all markets.

By 1918 the edges of ordinary circular irises were becoming very fuzzy when they were used in American films.

By 1918 we can find a shot of the sky being used to reflect the mood of one of the characters without specific explanation in The Gun Woman ( Frank Borzage ), but it must be emphasized that these examples are very rare, and did not either then, or within the next several years, constitute regular practice in the American cinema.

By 1918, two French mathematicians, Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia, though working independently, arrived essentially simultaneously at results describing what are now seen as fractal behaviour associated with mapping complex numbers and iterative functions and leading to further ideas about attractors and repellors ( i. e., points that attract or repel other points ), which have become very important in the study of fractals ( see Figure 3 and Figure 4 ).

By keeping very cool relations to NATO, and to western military powers in general, Finland could fend off Soviet preludes for affiliation to the Warsaw Pact.

By 1667 Glasnevin had expanded-but not by very much ; it is recorded as containing 24 houses.

By April, complete motorcycles were in production on a very limited basis.