Earlier pens leaked or clogged because of incorrect viscosity of the ink, and depended on gravity to deliver the ink to the ball.

Earlier in 1961, a Television Audience Measurement ( TAM ) showed that 75 % of available viewers ( 15 million ) tuned into Corrie and by 1964 the programme had over 20 million regular viewers, with ratings peaking on 2 December 1964, at 21. 36 million viewers.

Earlier in the year, 13-year-old Sarah-Louise Platt ( Tina O ' Brien ) had become pregnant and given birth to a baby girl, Bethany, on 4 June.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

Earlier increases in sclerophyll vegetation during shifts to cooler, drier conditions about 120 and 75 thousand years ago did not have any obvious impact on megafaunal abundance.

Earlier in the century, Norris had played on one of hockey's early powers, the Montreal HC, nicknamed the " Winged Wheelers.

Earlier, the Scottish philosopher David Hume had put forward a similar view on the difference between facts and values.

Earlier, in November 2004, Congress replaced the majority of judges on the country's Electoral Court and Constitutional Court by a similar process.

Earlier in December 2005, the European Commission initiated the second stage of infringement proceedings against the British Government relating to Gibraltar ’ s failure to transpose five European Union directives on electronic communications, but these were closed after the relevant legislation was passed into law by the House of Assembly in June 2006.

Earlier, the Empire's strength ( and finances ) greatly relied on the Empire's own lands, the so-called Reichsgut, which always belonged to the king of the day and included many Imperial Cities.

Earlier versions also ran on the i860, Alpha, MIPS, Fairchild Clipper, and PowerPC architectures.

Earlier, on January 23, 1949, William T. Knott, W2QGH, Larchmont, NY, had been able to make rough copy of W6PSW's test transmissions.

Earlier in the inning, a failed sacrifice bunt by Felipe Alou had ultimately resulted in his brother Matty not scoring on Mays ' double.

Earlier in the year, in January 1882, he had switched on the first steam-generating power station at Holborn Viaduct in London.

Earlier dukes had been illegitimate, and William's association with his father on ducal charters appears to indicate that William was considered Robert's most likely heir.

Earlier versions of HP-UX supported the HP Integral PC and HP 9000 Series 200, 300, and 400 computer systems based on the Motorola 68000 series of processors, as well as the HP 9000 Series 500 computers based on HP's proprietary FOCUS processor architecture.

Earlier ccNUMA systems such as those from Silicon Graphics were based on MIPS processors and the DEC Alpha 21364 ( EV7 ) processor.

Earlier, the waste disposal system had merely consisted of collecting waste and dumping it on the ground or into a river.

Earlier in that same dynasty, a similar attack on Hatshepsut was carried out.

Earlier treatments may be found in history of religion and belief in magic power of spells, also later in monotheistic religions, such as in the works of some church fathers, following much cited New Testament ideas like ζάω γάρ ὁ λόγος ὁ θεός καί ἐνεργής ( Hebrews 4: 12 ) in turn based on much cited Old Testament ideas like כן יהיה דברי אשר יצא מפי לא ־ ישוב אלי ריקם כי אם ־ עשה את ־ אשר חפצתי והצליח אשר שלחתיו ׃ ( Isaiah 55: 11 ).

Earlier in 1974-when the Brandts and the Guillaumes took a vacation in Norway together-it was Matthias, then twelve years old, who was the first to discover that Guillaume and his wife " were typing mysterious things on typewriters the whole night through.

Earlier it plays as Luke mentions her name on Dagobah.

Earlier that season, Rose had been ranked at number 25 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

Earlier, Gongshan had approached Confucius to join him, which Confucius considered at first.

Earlier in the year the band had performed at one of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics victory concerts at Whistler Medals Plaza and donated a collection of objects to the Ohio Historical Society including an energy dome, jumpsuit, stickers, and t-shirts.

Earlier in the novel, in an intended rape at Shantytown ( Chapter 44 ), Scarlett is attacked by a black man and saved by another black man, Big Sam.

Earlier Khoisan populations were absorbed by Bantu peoples, such as the Sotho and Nguni, but the Bantu expansion stopped at the region with winter rainfall.

Earlier this year, Wana sold a 31 % stake for € 228m to the partnership of two Kuwaiti companies, mobile operator Zain and Al Ajial Investment Fund Holding, to help finance the roll out of its 15-year 2G GSM network at the end of 2009.

Earlier in the year left-wing councils had protested at Government restriction of their budgets by refusing to set budgets, resulting in a budget crisis in Militant-dominated Liverpool City Council.

Earlier Egyptian myths imply that the sun is within the lioness, Sekhmet, at night and can be seen reflected in her eyes or that it is within the cow, Hathor during the night, being reborn each morning as her son ( bull ).

Earlier attempts at reconciliation of Christianity with Newtonian mechanics appear quite different from later attempts at reconciliation with the newer scientific ideas of evolution or relativity.

Earlier international soccer matches had already taken place in 1870, in 1871 and again in 1872 at the Oval, London.

Earlier Cray designs at CDC had included separate computers dedicated to this task, but this was no longer needed.

Earlier invitational tournaments, such as the " Syraquiz " at Syracuse University, had occurred in the 1950s and 1960s.

* Earlier portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Earlier in the same Olympics, Wolde had already won the silver medal in the 10, 000 m. In 1972, Wolde won a third Olympic medal at the age of 40, winning bronze in the marathon.

Earlier in 1893, Professor McKendrick, of Glasgow, had examined subject and reported unfavourably on the scant knowledge of the special senses displayed by the candidates ; it was in reaction to this that Sir Michael Foster, who had seen the potential in this shy, retiring Bart's man, appointed Rivers as a lecturer and he became Fellow Commoner at St John's College forthwith.

Earlier incarnations of the league operated, more centrally around Tennessee, from 1911 to 1914 and 1921 to 1925 at the Class D level.

Earlier, in 1969, Frank DeRemer had suggested two simplified version of the LR Parser called LALR and SLR which greatly reduced memory requirements at the cost of less language recognition power.

Earlier research tended to overlook the erotic aspect of the love of the partheneions ; thus, instead of the verb translated as " guards ",, at the end of the first quotation, the papyrus has in fact the more explicit, " wears me out ( with love )".

Earlier in the same year, at the battle of George Square on 31 January, in Glasgow, the city's sheriff was in the process of reading the Riot Act to a crowd of 90, 000 – when the sheet of paper he was reading from was ripped out of his hands by one of the rioters.