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 early 1900s, the game was banned in Russia because the rulers at the time believed that playing the game had an adverse effect on players ' eyesight.

During the early 1900s, the city of Van had eleven Armenian schools and ten Turkish.

During the early 1900s Holmfirth was well known for film making ; the West Yorkshire film industry, for a time, surpassed that of Hollywood in terms of productivity and originality.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, Granville County played a pivotal role as tobacco supplier for the southeast United States.

During the early 1900s, Theodore Roosevelt used the Catahoula when hunting.

During the 1900s ( decade ) the city's 38 % growth in population was attributed largely to the interurban.

During the early 1900s The Georgia Southern Rail Road ( R. R.

During the early 1900s, the property was owned and operated by several different ice companies.

During the decade of the 1900s Eugene V. Debs lived in Girard and worked on the Appeal to Reason.

During the twentieth century the city's economy experienced a downturn, first due to the replacement of steamboat traffic on the Mississippi River by railroads in the early 1900s, and later due to the exodus of many local industries that had provided a large number of jobs in the area.

During the early 1900s, Jefferson was a popular summer resort, boasting one of the largest " grand hotels " in the White Mountains — the Waumbek, with accommodations for nearly 300 guests, which was destroyed by fire on May 9, 1928.

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was home to the Peconic School, an artist colony initially led by painters Benjamin Rutherfurd Fitz and Edward August Bell.

During the early 1900s, there was a Driving Park Association that held races in the village.

During the early 1900s many immigrants settled in Braddock, primarily from Croatia, Slovenia, and Hungary.

During the 1870s through early 1900s Smethport was in an economic explosion that created some of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in the country.

During the turn of the century 1900s wood chemical plants dotted McKean County and pumped money into the local economy.

During a great immigration to the eastern Pennsylvania counties of the late 1900s from New Jersey and New York, the population expanded significantly.

During the early 1900s, the community was widely dispersed and consisted mostly of farms.

During the early 1900s, land speculators began to buy up the land that was to become the Delta Area of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

During the early 1900s, ranching superseded lumber, cotton cultivation, and corn production in importance to the local economy.

During the early 1900s, miners settled near the mine shaft and leased the land from the mining company.

During the 1900s, celluloid handles gradually replaced bone handles in toothbrushes.

During the early 1900s, Alderson became a hub of higher education in the state.

During early 1900s Pala became famous for its spice market.