During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States.

During his time at Yale he worked on the description of the Hopi language, and the historical linguistics of the Uto-Aztecan languages, publishing many influential papers in professional journals.

During this time he discovered comic strips like Pogo, Krazy Kat, and Charles Schulz ' Peanuts which subsequently inspired and influenced his desire to become a professional cartoonist.

During the 1869 season, Cleveland was among several cities which established professional baseball teams following the success of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional team.

During his long professional career, Alston significantly enriched the cultural life of Harlem.

During the eight months of singing lessons, Day had her first professional jobs as a vocalist in the WLW radio program, Carlin's Carnival and in a local restaurant, the Charlie Yee's Shanghai Inn.

During the festival there are beginners ' lessons, professional dives, lessons in underwater photography, screenings and other events related to the sport.

Indeed, he later recalled with apparent satisfaction that after that first recruitment meeting in Galena, ' I never went into our leather store again, to put up a package or do other business ..." During this time Grant quickly perceived that the war would be fought for the most part by volunteers, and not professional soldiers.

During his later years in Paris, Stravinsky had developed professional relationships with key people in the United States: he was already working on his Symphony in C for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and he had agreed to deliver lectures at Harvard during 1939.

During the feudal and colonial times in India hunting was regarded as a regal sport in the numerous princely states, as many maharajas, nawabs, as well as British officers maintained a whole corps of shikaris, who were native professional hunters.

During the 1920s the format was often referred to as sub-standard film by the professional industry.

During official meetings, a professional parliamentarian is available to ensure that legislation and accompanying discussion proceed as orderly as possible without bias.

During the 1976 auto racing season, Paul Newman became interested in forming a professional auto racing team and contacted Bill Freeman from Santa Barbara.

During the 20th century, the field of professional astronomy split into observational and theoretical branches.

During the period of political liberalization, which preceded the end of martial law, academic interest in the Plains aborigines surged as amateur and professional historians sought to rediscover Taiwan's past.

During the 2008 regular season, the first ever outdoor professional basketball game in North America was played at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York between the New York Liberty and the Indiana Fever in front of over 19, 000 fans.

During the following three years, several faculties and professional schools were created, and the construction works on the campus land took place.

During this time, he worked steadily towards becoming a professional painter.

During the 1970s and 1980s, some fanzines-especially sercon ( serious and constructive ) zines devoted to sf and fantasy criticism, and newszines such as Locus-became more professional journals, produced by desktop publishing programs and offset printing.

During this time he also became a professional boxer, winning his first nine bouts but retiring after an unsuccessful tenth.

During their run of four Stanley Cup championships and a fifth finals appearance, the Islanders won 19 straight playoff series, the longest streak in the history of professional sports ( one more than the 1959 – 67 streak by the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association ).

During the latter 19th century, the term " landscape architect " became used by professional people who designed landscapes.

During the early stages of his professional career, Benitez often traveled to the Virgin Islands and New York for fights.

During his football career, he built a second athletic career as a professional wrestler and became a major box office attraction.

During the greater part of Jefferson's career he enjoyed the close collaboration of a fellow Virginian, James Madison, eight years his junior.

During his college career, Dr. Clark was captain of his basketball team and was a football letterman.

During his career he also spent time writing works for opera houses in Venice, Rome, and Paris.

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

During her career in show business, Bardot starred in 47 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs.

During the early years of his career he produced several drawings and additional contributions for Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly.

During the latter part of his career, Lancaster left adventure and acrobatic movies behind and portrayed more distinguished characters.

During Comic-Con 2010, it was revealed that Campbell would be the star of a Burn Notice made-for-television prequel focusing on Sam's Navy SEAL career, titled Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe.

During his career with the Panthers, Capers finished with an overall record of 31 – 35 ( including the playoffs ) and one division title.

During his early journalism career, Marker became increasingly interested in filmmaking and experimented with photography in the early 1950s.

During his 22-year baseball career ( 1890 – 1911 ), he pitched for five different teams.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s Eisenhower's career in the post war army stalled somewhat, as military priorities diminished ; many of his friends resigned for high-paying business jobs.

During these early years in his career, Munch experimented with many styles, including Naturalism and Impressionism.

During his career he wrote poetry, prose, and stage plays ; his last novel was Kenelm Chillingly, which was in course of publication in Blackwood ’ s Magazine at the time of his death in 1873.

During his career as a director, he retained an early ambition to teach science, and after his career declined in the 1950s he made some educational TV films related to science subjects.

During the remainder of his career, he held the post of J. W.

During most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books of reportage: Down and Out in Paris and London ( describing a period of poverty in these cities ), The Road to Wigan Pier ( describing the living conditions of the poor in northern England, and the class divide generally ) and Homage to Catalonia.

During her career at the Grand Guignol, Maxa's characters were murdered more than 10, 000 times in at least 60 different ways and raped at least 3, 000 times.

During his long career, Bernini received numerous important commissions, many of which were associated with the papacy.

During his second year at university, Himmler redoubled his attempts to pursue a military career.

During a film career of almost thirty years, he appeared in 75 feature films.

During his career he was nominated for several awards including the BAFTA award for best foreign actor in 1952 for The African Queen and three Academy Awards.

During his career, Aaron performed at a consistently high level for an extended period of time.