Earlier optical table tops were sometimes made of a large slab of highly polished granite.

Earlier measurements had used mechanical means of modulation achieving frequencies of around 10 kHz, but the Kerr cell allow frequencies of 10 MHz and greater precision of measurement.

Earlier attempts at such measurements, but based on much simpler technology, had been made in 1860 by the English physicist James Clerk Maxwell ( 1831 – 1879 ).

Earlier measurements showed that the peak of equivalent chlorine ( chlorine + 45 times bromine ) had already occurred at the surface between mid-1992 and mid-1994.

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 this month Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States Information Agency, came to Hollywood and had dinner with more than 100 leaders of the motion picture industry.

( Earlier the APG had used the name Alliaceae for this group .).

Earlier amnesties, requiring signed oaths and excluding certain classes of people, had been issued by Lincoln and by Johnson.

Earlier Andronikos III had effected the recovery of the islands of Lesbos and Chios from Martino Zaccaria in 1329 ( although the island remained under Benedetto III Zaccaria until 1330 ) and of Phocaea in 1334 from the last Genoese governor Domenico Cattaneo.

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

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, Dai had been involved with the Blue Shirts Society, a fascist-inspired paramilitary group within the Kuomintang, which wanted to expel Western and Japanese imperialists, crush the Communists, and eliminate feudalism.

Earlier British clipper ships had become known as extreme clippers, and were considered to be " as sharp as the American " built ships.

" 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 dragoon responsibilities for scouting and picket duty had passed to hussars and similar light cavalry corps in the French, Austrian, Prussian, and other armies.

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

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

Earlier, the emperors had married women from families of the government-holding Soga lords, and women of the imperial clan itself, i. e. various-degree cousins and often even their own sisters ( half-sisters ).

Earlier Imperial sponsorship of Buddhism, beginning with Prince Shōtoku ( 574 – 622 ), had led to a general politicization of the clergy, along with an increase in intrigue and corruption.

Earlier constituent assemblies had written thirteen constitutions ( only ten of which had entered into force ), and the latest had been adopted in 1924.

Earlier pedal harps had a single-action mechanism that allowed strings to play sharpened notes.

Earlier in the 1970s, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath ( elected in 1970 ) had attempted to reduce trade union powers due to the rising level of strikes across the country.

Earlier that year, Francis Baring and Company of London had become the U. S. government's official banking agent in London.

Earlier submersible work had yielded dismal results.

Earlier, the two of them had also been caught in an attempt to assassinate Nasir when he was president and had been tried and imprisoned before being released in 1975.

Earlier in the history of chemistry substances were given name by their discoverer, which often led to some confusion and difficulty.

Earlier only the given name of the child, birth date, and baptismal date and sex was written down, together with the parents names.

Earlier statements of this type had either been, except for Gentzen, extremely complicated, ad-hoc constructions ( such as the statements generated by the construction given in Gödel's incompleteness theorem ) or concerned metamathematics or combinatorial results.

Earlier interpretations of this event focused on Rupert's concern for his honour in the face of his initial dismissal by the King ; later works have highlighted the practical importance of the courts martial to Rupert's future employability as a mercenary in Europe, given that Rupert knew that the war by this point was effectively lost.

Earlier films, such as Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ), were revived and given a series of increasingly gory sequels in attempts to compete with other franchises.

Earlier theories had given little attention to development.

Earlier forms of email addresses included the somewhat verbose notation required by X. 400, and the UUCP " bang path " notation, in which the address was given in the form of a sequence of computers through which the message should be relayed.

Max Perutz gives an account of a similar incident in his book, I Wish I Made You Angry Earlier: a demonstration of Pykrete was given at Combined Operations Headquarters ( COHQ ) by a naval officer, Lieutenant Commander Douglas Grant, who was provided by Perutz with rods of ice and Pykrete packed with dry ice in thermos flasks and large blocks of ice and Pykrete.

Earlier models were given extra armour by the expedient of welding extra plates on.

Earlier accounts of possession ( such as that given by Josephus ) were of demonic possession rather than that by ghosts.

Earlier in 1621, Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby had given Oxford University 250 pounds for the purchase of land for a " Physic Garden ".

Earlier, the Poles did not regard the Germans as their main threat, priority was given to threat from the Soviets ( see: Plan East ).

Earlier that same year he had discovered another lake which he had given the same moniker, and the name even appeared briefly on the official map.

( Earlier it was thought that this name was given by Gadicherla Harisarvottama Rao.

Earlier in 1987, he had given a benefit solo recital for the McLean Choral Society.

Earlier, the government defeated a similar bill introduced by Liberal Mike Colle that would have licenced dog breeders and given SPCA officials the right to inspect breeding operations.

# Earlier donative assignees for whom the assignment was made irrevocable can bring an action for the tort of conversion, because the assignment was technically their property when it was given to a later assignee.

Newly-issued CRSids are at least five characters long, with between two and six initials followed by a number ( increasing with each person sharing the given initials ) of at least one digit, the first of which is not 1 in order to avoid confusion with the letter L. Earlier schemes used different rules to determine the number, and some early CRSids had no number.

Earlier, he had given him back his lucky t-shirt.

Earlier in the year, the United States Secretary of War, John Armstrong, had given permission to destroy the nearby village of Newark if it became necessary to prevent British troops finding cover close to Fort George.

Earlier versions of the play were given staged readings in Mill Mountain Theater's Centerpiece and Theater B reading series.