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 World War II, Japanese forces gained control of Borneo ( 1941 – 45 ).

During the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, censuses were conducted in 1931 and 1921 ; the census in 1941 was never conducted due to the outbreak of WWII.

During the classic era, his work, either as author or screenwriter, was the basis for seven films now widely regarded as film noirs, including three of the most famous: High Sierra ( 1941 ), This Gun for Hire ( 1942 ), and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).

During the early morning of 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler broke the pact by implementing Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Soviet held territories and the Soviet Union that began the war on the Eastern Front.

During this period, Tito held talks with Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović on 19 September and 27 October 1941.

During the Continuation War ( 1941 – 1944 ) not only Finnish and Soviet, but also German and Italian vessels operated there ( see also Naval Detachment K and Regia Marina ).

During World War II, the Vardar Banovina was occupied between 1941 and 1944 by Italian-ruled Albania, which annexed the Albanian-populated western regions, and pro-German Bulgaria, which occupied the remainder.

During World War II, the silhouetted image of Bellerophon the warrior, mounted on the winged Pegasus, was adopted by the United Kingdom's newly-raised parachute troops in 1941 as their upper sleeve insignia.

During the early period of American involvement in World War II ( December 7, 1941 – September 22, 1943 ), the Purple Heart was awarded both for wounds received in action against the enemy and for meritorious performance of duty.

During World War II, a large part of the city as well as the historical Kivisild ( Stone Bridge ) ( built by Catherine II of Russia in 1776 – 1778 ) over the Emajõgi River were destroyed by the German Army, partly in 1941 and almost completely in 1944.

During the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 – 1942, the mountains became a key element in Nazi planning for the territories which they expected to conquer in the USSR.

During World War II, on the order of Hans Frank – the Governor-General of that region of occupied Poland – the dismantled Altar was shipped to the Third Reich around 1941.

During World War II Thessaloniki was heavily bombarded by Fascist Italy ( with 232 people dead, 871 wounded and over 800 buildings damaged or destroyed in November 1940 alone ), and, the Italians having failed to succeed in their invasion of Greece, it fell to the forces of Nazi Germany on 8 April 1941 and remained under German occupation until 30 October 1944 when it was liberated by the Greek People's Liberation Army.

During his time in Hawaii, Patton was part of the military units responsible for the defense of the islands, and specifically wrote a defense plan, called " Surprise ", anticipating an air raid against Pearl Harbor – 10 years before the attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7, 1941.

During the buildup of the United States Army prior to its entry into World War II, Patton commanded the United States Third Army, which performed with mixed results in 1941 in both the Louisiana Maneuvers and Carolina Maneuvers.

During the war Estonia was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941, then reoccupied by the Soviet Union in 1944.

During the first year of Soviet occupation ( 1940 – 1941 ) over 8, 000 people, including most of the country's leading politicians and military officers, were arrested.

During the Greco-Italian War, Corfu was occupied by the Italians in April 1941.

During World War II typhus struck the German army as it invaded Russia in 1941.

During 1938 – 1940, society was still relatively free, but during 1941, most of the free newspapers, magazines, and publishers were shut down, and authors were silenced.

During the Great Patriotic War of 1941 to 1945, Kerch was the site of heavy fighting between Soviet Army and Axis forces.

During the same meeting on 18 March 1941, Raeder said he wanted Japan to enter the war as soon as possible, stating that a Japanese attack on the British base at Singapore would force the Royal Navy to deploy most of its strength to the Far East, and thereby allow the Kriegsmarine to win the Battle of the Atlantic.

During this period, several Jugendstil houses and office buildings were built, followed by Rietveld who built the Rietveld Schröder House ( 1924 ), and Dudok's construction of the city theater ( 1941 ).

During World War II, Sevastopol withstood intensive bombardment by the Germans in 1941 – 1942, during the Axis siege which lasted for 250 days before it fell in July 1942.

During World War II, Thailand took the opportunity of French weaknesses to reclaim previously lost territories, resulting in the French-Thai War between October 1940 and 9 May 1941.