Within a short while, he grasps what is at stake and warns the authorities that unless steps are taken immediately, the epidemic could kill off half the town's population of two hundred thousand within a couple of months .</ br > During the epidemic, Rieux heads an auxiliary hospital and works long hours treating the victims.

During the time of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 1945 ), the Nazi Party enjoyed particular popularity and support among the town's population.

During the Roman period, the town's importance declined with the foundation of nearby Portus Luguidonis.

During the First World War many of the town's trawlermen, together with those from Grimsby, were taken prisoner after their ships were sunk by German raiders in the North Sea.

During this century the name St Albans Abbey was given to one of the town's railway stations.

During the Hundred Years ' War, French forces committed a notorious massacre of English archers stationed at the town's garrison, in which many of the French townsfolk were themselves raped and killed.

During the battle, many of the town's inhabitants sought refuge in the Abbaye aux Hommes (" Men's Abbey "), built by William the Conqueror some 800 years before.

During the Civil War a 12-strong band of watchmen was created to prevent the town's enemies, presumed to be Royalists, burning it down.

During the late nineteenth century, the construction of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad through Greenville contributed further to the town's success.

During the next two years, school was held in local church buildings, the town's former bank building, and the U. S. Post Office building located near the railroad.

During the first weekend in June, Downtown Patterson hosts the town's largest celebration of the year, the Apricot Fiesta.

During this time, the majority of the town's growth was due to white flight from Gary.

During the Colonial Revival movement of the late nineteenth century, Deerfield citizens rediscovered the town's past.

During the 1800s, farming continued to be the major occupation, but woolen mills were being built along some of the town's brooks by the turn of the twentieth century.

During the winter, the town's basketball team draws much of the locals ' attention.

During the town's bicentennial in 1988, Yorktowners honored their historic heritage, including that of the 19th and 20th centuries, and commemorated their community's participation in events that led up to the birth and growth of the United States.

During a VOA reporter's visit, the town's main street included a boarded-up hotel, café, hardware store, bowling alley, and a grocery store.

During that same general period, the town's population more than tripled from 920 to just over 3, 000 between 1890 and 1940.

During the Great Depression, the Englewood mills were forced to close, and many of the town's residents joined various federal work programs.

During the Great Depression, the population of Westminster was reduced by over half ( to 268 ), and the town never had the renewed growth of its larger neighbors ( such as Van Alstyne, Anna or Melissa ); most of the town's businesses had closed by World War II.

During the Civil War, a home on the town's Main Street served as a Confederate Hospital.

During the operation of the original Consolidated Coal Company mine, some of the town's amenities consisted of a hotel and a station for a cable car line that linked several nearby towns.

During the 1970s and 1980s, as the Mineral County school system consolidated schools in the area, all the town's schools were closed, challenging Ridgeley's cohesiveness as a community .< sup > 7 </ sup >

During the latter half of the 18th century and the early 19th century, Admiral Sir William Luard was the town's most prominent citizen, a resident of Chipping Hill and a founder and patron of St. Nicolas ' Church.

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.