During the 1950s there were as many as 25,000 schools in the Congo.

During the early 1950s the board was divided on whether to defend communists persecuted under McCarthyism.

During the late 1950s it was sought by two rail historians, George Horn and Martin Schachne, but they did not gain access to the tunnel itself.

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 the 1950s, however, Graham began distancing himself from the older fundamentalism and, in preparation for his 1957 New York Crusade, he sought broad ecumenical sponsorship.

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

During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s Brubeck canceled several concerts because the club owners or hall managers continued to resist the idea of an integrated band on their stages.

During the 1950s, Kaye visited Australia, where he played " Buttons " in a production of Cinderella in Sydney.

During World War II and through the 1950s, high frequency (" short wave ") radio was widely used for military and diplomatic communication, and could be intercepted at great distances.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Peter van de Kamp of Swarthmore College made another prominent series of detection claims, this time for planets orbiting Barnard's Star.

During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, several events occurred which raised the public awareness of harm to the environment caused by man.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the electric guitar became the most important instrument in pop music.

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

During Indian cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, it was producing 200 films annually, while Indian independent films gained greater recognition through international film festivals.

During the 1950s and 60s, Afghanistan was able to use the Russian and American need for allies during the Cold War as a way to receive economic assistance from both countries.

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 World War II, the urgent need for cheap, available food preservatives led to it being used again, but it was finally banned in the 1950s.

During the 1950s, when the independence of Ghana was in sight, demands grew for a separate Ewe state, an idea that Kwame Nkrumah, leader of the Gold Coast independence movement, opposed.

During the early 1950s, Groucho described his perfect woman: “ Someone who looks like Marilyn Monroe and talks like George S. Kaufman .”

During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty One and The $ 64, 000 Question began a rapid rise in popularity.

During the 1950s — as a result of these improvements and the strong international export prices — beef, cotton, and coffee became significant export products for the first time.

During the later 1950s, Great Britain emerged as a producer of horror films.

During the 1950s, Holden dominated the Australian car market.

During the 1950s and 1960s the skyline of London altered dramatically as tower blocks were erected, although these later proved unpopular.

During his time in Vienna, Salieri acquired great prestige as a composer and conductor, particularly of opera, but also of chamber and sacred music.

During World War II, though already an experienced composer, Hartmann submitted to a course of private tuition in Vienna by Schoenberg ’ s pupil Anton Webern ( with whom he often disagreed on a personal and political level ).

During the summer of 1924, the Viennese composer Alban Berg's Three Fragments from Wozzeck, op.

During his years in Germany, Sullivan became friendly with the composer Franz Liszt, the singer and later impresario Carl Rosa, and the violinist Joseph Joachim.

During his university years, Moore took a great interest in jazz and soon became an accomplished jazz pianist and composer.

During his lifetime, Berlioz was as famous a conductor as he was as a composer.

During the 16th century, Josquin gradually acquired the reputation as the greatest composer of the age, his mastery of technique and expression universally imitated and admired.

During his time there, Berlin was a rich artistic environment, where Bach mixed with many accomplished musicians, including several notable former students of his father, and important literary figures, such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, with whom the composer would become close friends.

During the summer of 1931, Stein advised the young composer and writer Paul Bowles to go to Tangier, where she and Alice had vacationed.

During his lifetime Strauss was considered the greatest composer of the first half of the 20th century, and his music had a profound influence on the development of 20th-century music.

During the years when the Gilbert and Sullivan (“ G & S ”) operas were being written, Richard D ' Oyly Carte produced operas by other composer – librettist teams, either as curtain raisers to the G & S pieces, or to fill the theatre when no G & S piece was available.

During his tenure, the Philharmonic enjoyed a period of unprecedented success and prosperity and performed its first world premiere written by a world-renowned composer in the United States – Antonín Dvořák's Ninth Symphony " From the New World ".

During the 70s, 80s Sesto created many hit songs and a great fortune, and almost every song came from his sole inspiration, being the author, interpreter, composer, and producer of all of his works.

During the 1950s, American Decca released a number of soundtrack recordings of popular motion pictures, notably Mike Todd's production of Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1956 ) with the music of veteran film composer Victor Young.

During his long career Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema.

During the 1930s, his career as a conductor took off with his appointment with the Vic-Wells ballet ( later The Royal Ballet ), but his career as a composer stagnated.

During that time, and as a tribute to Theodorakis ’ s body of work, Alexia recorded a double album showcasing some of the composer ’ s most consummate musical creations, and in 1998, Sony BMG released the album entitled: Alexia-Mikis Theodorakis.

During the 1750s and 1760s, Arne worked as an organist and harpsichordist and composer to the theatres and pleasure gardens of London.

During this time he began a musical association and close friendship with composer Ernie Stires, who taught him composition, theory, and arranging.

During the 16th century the school educated writers including Ben Jonson and Richard Hakluyt ; in the seventeenth, the poet John Dryden, philosopher John Locke, scientist Robert Hooke, composer Henry Purcell and architect Christopher Wren were pupils ; and in the 18th century, philosopher Jeremy Bentham and several Whig Prime Ministers and other statesmen ; recent Old Westminsters include prominent politicians of all parties, and many members of the arts and media.

During the same year, Shorter also recorded the seminal and well received Latin-jazz Native Dancer under his own name ( with the Brazilian composer and vocalist Milton Nascimento ).

During this process the composer will take precise timing notes so that he or she knows how long each cue needs to last, where it begins, where it ends, and of particular moments during a scene with which the music may need to coincide in a specific way.

During the reign of composer John Eccles as Master of the King's Musick, George Frideric Handel supplied the Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne ( 1713 ).

During the Revolution Grétry lost much of his property, but the successive governments of France vied in favouring the composer, regardless of political differences.