The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

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 World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.

During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a " rebel tour " of South Africa the following winter ; three of them ( Tim Robinson, Neil Foster and John Emburey ) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.

During the winter, the I Corps was reorganized and Doubleday assumed command of the 3rd Division.

During each winter there is usually one fall of snow in the south and two in the north ; but the snow quickly disappears, and sometimes, during an entire winter, the ground is not covered with snow.

During the winter of 2010 / 11, which was quite severe compared to those of the last decades, the maximum ice cover was 315 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, which was reached on 25 February 2011.

During winter, fast ice, which is attached to the shoreline, develops first, rendering the ports unusable without the services of icebreakers.

During the winter of 1939 – 40, Hitler decreased the size of the fighting manpower in order to return as many skilled workers to the factories as was possible.

During winter training, the pilots fly two practice sessions per day, six days a week, in order to fly the 120 training missions needed to perform the demonstration safely.

During the winter, storms blowing from the Sahara sometimes form dense dust clouds that obscure the sun ; however, sunny days are the norm year round.

During the winter months Lake Cadillac and Lake Mitchell freeze over and the city becomes covered with snow.

During the winter, sea temperatures tend to be higher than land temperatures, and vice versa during the summer months.

During the 1980s, anime gained in popularity, with new animated movies released every summer and winter, often based upon popular anime television series.

During the winter months, temperatures average a high of and a low of around, whereas during the summer a mean high of and a low of can be expected.

During the winter of 1945 to 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan ( who was later to become Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law ), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and Sonia Brownell, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office.

During winter, the auk lost these patches, instead developing a white band stretching between the eyes.

During winter the auk molted and lost this eye patch, which was replaced with a wide white band and a gray line of feathers which stretched from the eye to the ear.

During the winter, the throat became white.

During the winter, the Great Auk migrated south either in pairs or in small groups, and never with the entire nesting colony.

During the winter monsoon, however, currents in the north are reversed.

During the period 1790-1815 Sweden experienced two parallel economic movements: an agricultural revolution with larger agricultural estates, new crops and farming tools and a commercialisation of farming, and a protoindustrialisation, with small industries being established in the countryside and with workers switching between agricultural work in the summer season and industrial production in the winter season.

During the winter of 1779, Simcoe attempted to capture George Washington, but decided that his men would not shoot the future president.

During a pause in operations necessitated by the Spring Offensive in 1918 on the Western Front joint infantry and mounted infantry attacks towards Amman and Es Salt resulted in retreats back to the Jordan Valley which continued to be occupied by mounted divisions during the summer of 1918.

During the war of 1918 there were two kinds of Red and White political violence: ( i ) a calculated part of the general warfare, and ( ii ) more local, personal murders and corresponding acts of revenge.

During the Great War, the Italian Royal Army increased in size from 15, 000 men in 1914 to 160, 000 men in 1918, with 5 million recruits in total entering service during the war.

During the Finnish Civil War in 1918, Nurmi remained politically passive and concentrated on his work and his Olympic ambitions.

During the war trade unions were encouraged and their membership grew from 4. 1 million in 1914 to 6. 5 million in 1918.

During World War I, Vilnius and the rest of Lithuania was occupied by the German Army from 1915 until 1918.

During World War I, to avoid ground fights between brothers, many Alsatians served as sailors in the Kaiserliche Marine and took part in the Naval mutinies that led to the abdication of the Kaiser in November 1918, which left Alsace-Lorraine without a nominal head of state.

During the Russian Revolution of 1917 Rosenberg supported the counter-revolutionaries ; following their failure he emigrated to Germany in 1918 along with Max Scheubner-Richter who served as something of a mentor to Rosenberg and to his ideology.

During the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919, Canaris helped organise the formation of vigilante forces in order to suppress the revolutionary movements.

During World War I from 1917 to 1918, the United States Army executed 35 soldiers, but all were convicted of rape and / or murder of civilians and not for military offenses.

During the Second Battle of Marne, there was heavy fighting throughout the last days of July 1918.

During the 1918 influenza epidemic, an African-American nurse ( Viola Pettus ) living in the border area of Brewster County became legendary for her courageous and selfless treatment of anyone with the disease – including raiders and refugees from Mexico, and local members of the Ku Klux Klan.

During World War I, two Kershaw County men were awarded the Medal of Honor in two separate actions while fighting in France in October, 1918.

During 1916 and 1917, García Lorca traveled throughout Castile, Léon, and Galicia, in northern Spain, with a professor of his university, who also encouraged him to write his first book, ( Impressions and Landscapes – published 1918 ).

* 1916, 1917, 1918: During World War I the racecourse hosted the Grand National.

During the last two years of World War I ( 1917 – 1918 ), Pau was the home to the School of Acrobacy and Combat for French, British and American aviators.

* 1918: During World War I, the community changed the name of the village to North Canton.

During the First World War Heyrovský worked in a military hospital as a dispensing chemist and radiologist, which enabled him to continue his studies and to take his Ph. D. degree in Prague in 1918 and D. Sc.

During the early twentieth century they were popular in Russia with re-enactments of the Siege of Sevastopol ( 1854 – 1855 ) ( 1906 ), the Battle of Borodino ( 1812 ) in St Petersburg and the Taking of Azov ( 1696 ) in Voronezh in 1918.

During World War I, the fort was home to 50, 000 soldiers, and it is sometimes identified as ground zero for the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which its soldiers were said to have spread all over the world.

During the American build up, he served as assistant chief of staff for I Corps and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his work during the American offensives of 1918.

During the Civil War in Finland ( 1918 ), Airo served in the artillery on the White side, taking part in battles near Viipuri.

During the debates over the form of the new state in 1918, Kallio resigned from the Senate because he supported a republic instead of constitutional monarchy.