By virtue of his self-reliance, his individualism and his freedom from external restraint, the private eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle class conception of liberty, which amounts to doing what you please and let the devil take the hindmost.

By the middle of the summer, many of the larvae apparently receive such a good diet that it is `` optimal '', and it is then that young queens begin to appear.

By virtue of the legal responsibilities of the Department of Employment in the farm placement program, we necessarily found ourselves in the middle between these two forces.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

By the middle of the 2nd millennium BC, the Babylonian mathematics had a sophisticated sexagesimal positional numeral system.

By 1987 Ethernet was clearly winning the standards battle over Token Ring, and in the middle of that year Apple introduced EtherTalk 1. 0 for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

By the middle of the 6th century the king of Babylon was Nabonidus.

By the middle of the dry season, the intertropical convergence zone moves south of Chad, taking the rain with it.

By the 1920s, the emerging middle and working classes were powerful enough to elect a reformist president, Arturo Alessandri Palma.

By the middle of the decade, some of the 1950s generation of American comedians, such as Jerry Lewis, went into decline, while Peter Sellers found success with international audiences in his first American film The Pink Panther.

By the middle of the 19th century it was the largest and most modern glassworks in the world.

By the middle of the 18th century, " casuistry " became a synonym for moral laxity.

By the middle of the Devonian, several groups of plants had evolved leaves and true roots, and by the end of the period the first seed-bearing plants appeared.

By the middle of the century, the population was bolstered by emigration from the Canary Islands, resettling the northern part of the colony and planting tobacco in the Cibao Valley, and importation of slaves was renewed.

By the middle of December, some high-speed runs were made, in excess of but still well below Campbell's existing record.

By the middle of the 3rd century BC, the Romans had secured the whole of the Italian peninsula, except Gallia Cisalpina ( Po Valley ).

By the middle of June the political situation in Barcelona had deteriorated and the POUM — painted by the pro-Soviet Communists as a Trotskyist organisation — was outlawed and under attack.

By the next century, gardens became available to the middle class as well.

By 1793, the execution of the French king and the onset of the Terror disillusioned the Bildungsbürgertum ( educated middle classes ).

By the middle of the 12th century, coats of arms were being inherited by the children of armigers ( persons entitled to use a coat of arms ) across Europe.

By the middle of the 14th century, the power of the Mongols was declining, and the Grand Princes felt able to openly oppose the Mongol yoke.

By 2000 the social structure included a politically active working class, a primarily clerical middle class, and an upper bracket consisting of managers, entrepreneurs, and professionals.

By the middle of the 17th century, plays such as Robert Davenport's King John and Matilda, although based largely on the earlier Elizabethan works, were transferring the role of Protestant champion to the barons and focusing more on the tyrannical aspects of John's behaviour.

By the middle of the decade the first true kickboxing events were being held in Osaka.

By the middle of 1990, Taylor controlled much of the country, and by June laid siege to Monrovia.

By spring 1979 unrests had reached 24 out of 28 Afghan provinces including major urban areas.

By 1979 master plan development was handled by the firm of Sasaki & Associates, which continued to work alongside the university in the years that followed.

By spring 1979 unrests had reached 24 out of 28 Afghan provinces including major urban areas.

By 1979, the Khmer Rouge had fled the country, while the People's Republic of Kampuchea was being established.

* The BYTE 6809 Articles ( Jan – February 1979 ) ( PDF ) – By Terry Ritter and Joel Boney, co-designers of the 6809 ; BYTE magazine reproductions by tim lindner

By the end of 1979 per capita GNP in North Korea was about one-third of that in the South.

By 1970, Dot had become an all-country label and in 1974, Paramount sold all of its record holdings to ABC Records, which in turn was sold to MCA ( now Universal Music Group ) in 1979.

By 1979, the hardcore punk movement was emerging in Southern California.

By the end of 1979, there were twice-weekly showings at over 230 theatres.

By December 1979, Muzerowa had replaced Smith as Prime Minister and secured a a fresh agreement with the more militant African factions, allowing Rhodesia to briefly revert to her colonial status pending popular elections.

By June 1979, it was again mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters ( known as a boilerplate configuration ) and tested in a launch configuration at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A for a series of fit checks of the facilities there.

By mid-April 1979, five guerrilla fronts opened under the joint command of the FSLN, including an internal front in the capital city Managua.

By 1 August 1979, hundreds of high-ranking Ba ' ath party members had been executed.

By 1979 the Kleinschmidt division was branching off into Electronic Data Interchange, a business in which they became very successful, and replaced the mechanical products, including teleprinters.

By the time of the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979 Rhodesia only had representative offices in London, Bonn, Pretoria, Washington, D. C. and Tokyo.

By 1976, 60 Minutes became the top-rated show on Sunday nights in the U. S. By 1979, it had achieved the number-one Nielsen rating for all television programs, unheard of before for a news broadcast in prime time.

Lansky's 1979 computer music piece " Her Song ", from the Six Fantasies On A Poem By Thomas Campion ( re-released on the album Fantasies and Tableaux, 1994 ), has also been sampled by Caural for his song " I Won't Race You ", from his 2006 album Mirrors For Eyes, with the main synthesized vocal line of Lansky's piece being used ( and being the basis for the title of the latter ).

By the end of the first season, the far more family-friendly tone of the series was firmly in place ; after the show returned for a second season in Fall of 1979, the template was set in place that would remain for the rest of the run.

By the show's tenth anniversary in 1979, 9 million American children under the age of six were watching Sesame Street daily.

By 1979, many companies such as Cromemco, Processor Technology, IMSAI, Northstar, Southwest Technical Products Corporation, Ohio Scientific, Altos, Morrow Designs and others produced systems designed either for a resourceful end user or consulting firm to deliver business systems such as accounting, database management, and word processing to small businesses.

By the end of 1979, researchers had identified three variant forms of GM2 gangliosidosis, including Sandhoff disease and the AB variant of GM2-gangliosidosis, accounting for false negatives in carrier testing.

By October 1979, Fawcett began publishing a separate series of 36 issues entitled Dennis the Menace and Mr. Wilson.

By 1979, during what became known as Operation Wrath of God, at least one Mossad unit had assassinated eight PLO members.

By the time she had completed her military service in 1979, Haza had matured as a singer and was ready to launch a solo career.