During these early years the repair of watches and clocks and the building of special clocks for church steeples formed an important part of the young man's occupation.

During the early part of this century, the Brown & Sharpe works in Providence were unchallenged as the largest single manufacturing facility devoted exclusively to precision machinery and tool manufacture anywhere in the world.

During early childhood, children are more interested in the approval of their parents and teachers than they are in the approval of other children ; ;

During early childhood boys tease and bully, on the average, more than girls ; ;

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, physicists discovered subatomic components and structure inside the atom, thereby demonstrating that the ' atom ' was divisible.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

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

During the early 20th century, Alicante was a minor capital that enjoyed the benefit of Spain's neutrality during World War I, and that provided new opportunities for the local industry and agriculture.

During the Neolithic Revolution, which occurred during the early Holocene, there were at least two aurochs domestication events: one related to the Indian subspecies, leading to Zebu cattle ; the other one related to the Eurasian subspecies, leading to taurine cattle.

During the early 1960s, while also active in ASCII standardization, IBM simultaneously introduced in its product line of System / 360 the 8-bit Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC ), an expansion of their 6-bit binary-coded decimal ( BCDIC ) representation used in earlier card punches.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, most BBSes used ANSI to make elaborate welcome screens, and colorized menus, and thus, ANSI support was a sought-after feature in terminal client programs.

During the same period, Ahl was involved in the creation of a small computer for education use, an early personal computer.

During the early 1990s Borland's implementation of C and C ++ outsold Microsoft's.

During the early 1920s, he and his father-in-law developed the Stockade Building System for producing light-weight, weatherproof, and fireproof housing — although the company would ultimately fail.

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

During the early centuries of Christianity the title " pope " was applied generally to all bishops ; it now has more specific meanings that vary between churches.

During the early 1970s, Manchester United were no longer competing among the top teams in England, and at several stages were battling against relegation.

During the early eighties, nearly all BASE jumps were made using standard skydiving equipment, including two parachutes ( main and reserve ), and deployment components.

During 1971 and 1972 B evolved into " New B " and then C, with the preprocessor being added in 1972 and early 1973 at the urging of Alan Snyder.

During the early settlement of Australia by Europeans, the notion that the bunyip was an actual unknown animal that awaited discovery became common.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the site hosted Creative Time's landmark Art on the Beach sculpture exhibitions.

During a rise of " retro " games in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Steve Jackson Games entered negotiations with Dennis Sustare and Scott Robinson, the current owners of the Bunnies & Burrows copyright, to publish an official GURPS supplement.

During the early 20th century in America, gambling became outlawed and banned by state legislation and social reformers of the time.

During the early twentieth century, electro-mechanical machines were invented to do encryption and decryption using transposition, polyalphabetic substitution, and a kind of " additive " substitution.

During the 7th millennium BC, the northern half of Chad was part of a broad expanse of land, stretching from the Indus River in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, in which ecological conditions favored early human settlement.

During the 1880s, Peirce's indifference to bureaucratic detail waxed while his Survey work's quality and timeliness waned.

During the 1870s and 1880s, Chicago attained national stature as the leader in the movement to improve public health.

During the 1880s, five foreign editions contained two revelations to John Taylor that were received in 1882 and 1883 ; these revelations " set in order " the priesthood, gave more clarification about the roles of priesthood offices — especially the Seventy — and required Priesthood leaders to live plural marriage in order to qualify to hold their church positions.

During the late 1880s, the strong influence of Spanish style is evident in Albéniz's music.

During the " eclipse of Darwinism " from the 1880s to the 1930s, various other mechanisms of evolution were given more credit.

During the same period London's water supply network was expanded and improved, and a gas network for lighting and heating was introduced in the 1880s.

During the 1880s, when both the old cast-iron and modern forged-steel shrapnel shell designs were in British service, British ordnance manuals referred to the older cast-iron design as " Boxer shrapnel ", apparently to differentiate it from the modern steel design.

During this conflict and others during the 1880s, Carte and Helen Lenoir frequently worked to smooth over the partners ' differences using a mixture of friendship and business acumen.

During this period, Asian women were still wearing traditional hairstyles held up with combs, pins and sticks crafted from tortoise, metal, wood and other materials, but in the middle 1880s, upper-class Japanese women began pushing back their hair in the Western style ( known as sokuhatsu ), or adopting Westernized versions of traditional Japanese hairstyles ( these were called yakaimaki, or literally, soirée chignon ).

During the 1880s, Flagstaff began to grow, opening its first post office and attracting the railroad industry.

During the 1880s, living at the Goulden cottage with her parents in Seedley, Emmeline Pankhurst tended to her husband and children, but still devoted time to political activities.

During the 1880s, investment began to show some diversification as capital began to flow from other countries such as France, Germany and Belgium, though British investment still accounted for two thirds of total foreign capital.

During the 1870s and much of the 1880s, he lived with his model-mistress Maud Franklin.

During the period known as Blackbirding, in the 1870s and 1880s, hundreds of thousands of Pacific islanders ( many of them from the New Hebrides ( now Vanuatu ) archipelago ) were enslaved and forced to work on plantations, mainly in Queensland, Australia and Fiji.

During the 1880s, a vigilante mob, organized like a fraternal lodge, killed a number of San Saba County settlers.

During the latter 1880s, the Texas surveyor and civil engineer W. D. Twichell lived in Tascosa, now a ghost town in Oldham County, prior to his relocating in 1890 to Amarillo

During the 1880s and 1890s, there were a series of unsuccessful efforts to move the county seat to nearby Independence.

During the 1880s it was the largest town between Bismarck, North Dakota and Pierre, South Dakota.

During the late 1880s, the VFA expanded rapidly.

During the 1880s Dr. Geo W. Westbrook joined them and the area grew into a small community.

During the 1870s and 1880s German, Swedish, and Polish immigrants came to work in the factories.

During the 1880s the town of Batesville started its first form of government appointed by the community.

During the mid to late 1880s, Manchester was the home of Michigan Lutheran Seminary.

During the 1880s Benson sold portions of his original tract to incoming settlers, many of whom were farmers.