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 the 1930s the PCF grew rapidly in size and influence, its growth fuelled by the popularity of the Comintern's Popular Front strategy, which allowed an alliance with the SFIO and the Radical Party to fight against fascism.

During the 1978 legislative electoral campaign, in his Verdun-sur-le-Doubs speech, President Giscard d ' Estaing noted that the political leanings of the French people were divided among four groups: the Communists ( PCF ), the Socialists ( PS ), the Neo-Gaullists ( RPR ) and his own followers.

During the 1920s, when the PCF was politically isolated, it was kept in existence only by donations from Party members.

During the late 1990s the relations between PCF and PCR became somewhat strained, regarding differences in party lines.

During the several years following American Beautys release, Spacey appeared in films that he believes hadn't done as well critically or in terms of box office.

During the second half of the 1990s she starred in several films such as the ensemble romantic film ' Til There Was You ( 1997 ) with Dylan McDermott and Sarah Jessica Parker, The Thin Pink Line ( 1998 ), the animated feature The Iron Giant ( 1999 ), and the critically acclaimed comedy Office Space ( 1999 ).

During the 1980s, Altman did a series of films, some well-received ( Secret Honor, Streamers ), and some critically panned ( O. C.

During the 2000s she maintained a successful, critically acclaimed career, alternating between French and English language roles in both mainstream and art-house productions.

During the immediate postwar period, Wyler directed a handful of critically acclaimed and influential films.

During the 1990s, Roy's department produced a number of commercially successful, critically acclaimed films and the era has been called a renaissance for the company and animation, though there was a decline in profits starting at the end of the decade.

During the pre-code Hollywood era in the early 1930s, she appeared in such other films as The Smiling Lieutenant, The Story of Temple Drake and Design for Living, all of which were box office successes and critically acclaimed.

During the Chinese Civil War, Fu's forces ( 500, 000 men ) controlled the critically important Suiyuan-Peiping Corridor that separated Manchuria from China proper.

During this stage of the war, Malta was critically short on munitions, food, and fuel for both military operations and civil use.

During their battle Godzilla critically wounds Rodan while the research team escapes with the egg.

During the 1960s, Sanford worked in the theatre industry, and in 1967 she made her film debut in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, playing the critically acclaimed role of the maid Tillie Binks.

During the trip he developed an inflamed throat and became critically ill.

During a career that spanned from the 1940s to the 60s, Nargis appeared in numerous commercially successful as well as critically appreciated films, many of which featured her alongside actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor.

During his studies he made several critically acclaimed documentary films.

During his career, he received only a few critically appreciated roles perhaps partly due to his commercial hero image and partly due to the lack of films that garnered critical appreciation at the time.

During the 2000s, Matondkar revealed strong, dramatic and psychological features in her roles, and delivered a number of critically acclaimed performances.

During the second half of the 2004 – 05 season the Catamounts were the subject of five parts of ESPN's critically acclaimed nationally televised series, ' The Season '.

During the year she released two more albums: the critically acclaimed The Lady and The Piper with Gordon Walker ; and My Generation a collection of children ’ s songs.

During his tenure, Harras oversaw critically acclaimed runs on titles such as Captain America, Daredevil, Ka-Zar and Deadpool.

During the hiatus of the Clark Sisters, Sheard rose to fame after she recorded her critically acclaimed and much anticipated solo album Finally Karen, which spawned her hit, " Balm in Gilead " ( a re-recording of a song she originally recorded as part of The Clark Sisters back in the 1980s for their Heart & Soul album ) the R & B-flavored " Just For Me " and " Nothing Without You "-a contemporary duet with R & B diva Faith Evans.

During the Fang La campaign, Cai Fu is critically wounded in the battle of Qingxi County and dies from his wounds after the battle.

During her time there, she introduced characters, such as Alfie Moon, Dennis Rickman, Chrissie Watts, Stacey Slater and the critically panned Indian Ferreira family.

During this same era, US courts tackled cases involving critically ill people who requested physician assistance in dying as well as “ mercy killings ”, such as by parents of their severely disabled children.

During her career as an adult actress, she appeared in nearly 400 movies including Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle ( 2000 ) and the critically acclaimed The Fashionistas ( 2002 ).