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 than 900 CE progressing past the 13th century, the population complexes were a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.

Earlier automobile engine development produced a much larger range of engines than is in common use today.

Earlier than any other German prince or any other member of the Hohenzollern line including even his younger brother Albert, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, he turned his eyes and heart to the new faith proceeding from Wittenberg.

Earlier writings only mention either bishops or presbyters, and give the impression that there was usually more than one bishop per congregation.

Earlier Christians fighting the Moors, such as Pelayo, could plausibly be described as natives opposing foreign invasion and conquest ; however, by the time most parts of Muslim Iberia were ( re ) conquered by Christian forces, the Muslim population there was centuries old, and much of it undoubtedly composed of converted Iberians rather than migrants from other Muslim lands.

" Earlier than that, A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue by Francis Grose ( The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, London 1788 ) contains the following entry: " CHESHIRE CAT.

Earlier 10th through 12th century sources refer to " long swords " that while a common medieval term or orthography for naginata, could also simply be referring to conventional swords ; one source describes a naginata being drawn with the verb nuku, commonly associated with swords, rather than hazusu, the verb otherwise used in medieval texts for unsheathing naginata.

Earlier and less advanced car bombs were often wired to the car's ignition system, but this practice is now considered more laborious and less effective than other more recent methods, as it required a greater amount of work for a system that could often be quite easily defused.

Earlier versions of ISO 13250 ( than the current revision ) also exist.

** Earlier generation displays were more susceptible to screen burn-in and image retention, recent models have a pixel orbiter that moves the entire picture slower than is noticeable to the human eye, which reduces the effect of burn-in but does not prevent it.

** Earlier generation displays ( circa 2006 and prior ) had phosphors that lost luminosity over time, resulting in gradual decline of absolute image brightness ( newer models may be less susceptible to this, having advertised lifespans exceeding, far longer than older CRT technology )

Earlier during the Civil War ( in September 1643 ) he had written to Sir William Spring saying that he would " rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than what you call a Gentleman and is nothing else ".

Earlier links as described above were focused on sacrifice rather than romantic love.

Earlier than this, Yochanan ben Zakai was living, and Eliezer, being his pupil, would have been held of no authority in Johanan's lifetime.

Earlier in the Second World War, the British Royal Navy had devised its own similar system of Forces, which were assigned a letter rather than a number.

Earlier than 100 BC, many of the Teutones, as well as the Cimbri, migrated south and west to the Danube valley, where they encountered the expanding Roman Republic.

Earlier, more than one brand of color TV ( RCA, Arvin ) used I / Q decoding in the 1954 or 1955 model year on models utilizing screens about 13 inches ( measured diagonally ).

Earlier, Thomas Attwood and his followers had left the movement because they were keenly opposed to attainment of the Charter by any means other than legislative.

Earlier editions of the Biographical Directory and their nineteenth century predecessors offered little information on congressional careers other than terms of service.

Earlier, many authors assumed that the fruitworm moths ( Copromorphoidea ) were also very closely related to the Alucitidae ( and the fringe-tufted moths, Epermeniidae ) – according to some, closer in fact than the Pterophoroidea and even the Tineodidae.

Earlier works had attempted to summarize the semantic differences under the vague ( though preliminarily useful ) rubric of the “ Iconicity Principle ” ( see Huang and Su ( 2005 ) for a succinct discussion ), which basically posits a correlation between the degree of formal compactness of the linguistic material encoding the causative macroevent and the perceived directness of the relationship between causing event () and caused event (): i. e., shorter forms, on the whole, were posited to encode more direct causation than longer forms, as in the classic English I killed him.

Earlier kings appear to have shared rulership, and Cenberht, father of the future King Caedwalla, may have ruled together with Cenwealh rather than being merely a sub-king.

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

Earlier that year, parent Gannett Co. named The Enquirer the most improved of the more than 100 newspapers in the chain.

Earlier, quite large land areas had been either unclaimed or uninhabited, or inhabited by nomadic peoples who were not organised as states.

Earlier trumpets did not have valves, but modern instruments generally have either three piston valves or, more rarely, three rotary valves.

Earlier, Johann Strauss I and Josef Lanner wrote polkas which are either designated as a galop ( quick tempo ) or as a regular polka which may not fall into any of the categories described above.

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, the government had taken over the other Downing Street houses: the Colonial Office occupied Number 14 in 1798: the Foreign Office was at Number 16 and the houses on either side ; the West India Department was in Number 18 and the Tithe Commissioners, Number 20.

Earlier Soviet self-propelled guns were meant to serve as either assault guns, such as the SU-122, or as mobile anti-tank weapons ; the SU-85 fell into the latter category.

Earlier seasons of the Race enforced a 24 hour penalty for not completing either Detour option, but this was subsequently reduced to six hours at some point for later seasons, first used in The Amazing Race 17.

Earlier types had only an " S "- shaped serpentine pinned to the stock either behind or in front of the flash pan ( the so-called " serpentine lock "), one end of which was manipulated to bring the match into the pan.

Earlier forming cells from this region can become non-pain sensing receptors ; either proprioceptors or low-threshold mechanoreceptors.

Earlier, the venom of a particular snake was considered to be one kind only i. e. either hemotoxic or neurotoxic, and this erroneous belief may still persist wherever the updated literature is hard to access.

Earlier, either two or four of the corroded, 50-ft ( 15 m ) concrete segments of the old roadway were removed by crane.

Earlier texts ( c. 2200 BC ) seem to indicate that Meluhha is to the east, suggesting either the Indus valley or India.

Earlier in the 20th century, it was common to identify him with " Eriaku "-an alternative reading of either Rim-Sin or his brother Warad-Sin, who were Elamite rulers over Larsa contemporary with Hammurabi, although this identification has come under attack from scholars in more recent years, and is now largely abandoned, in part due to Nuzu inscriptions referring to a Hurrian king named Ariukki.

Earlier versions of the list required either of prominence or a quarter-mile of separation.

Earlier examples in France were placed unobtrusively either at the base of a column or more frequently on a capitol.

Earlier tea caddies were made of either porcelain or faience.

Earlier Unix-like systems, with the notable exception of Ultrix, either accessed only the configuration files or had hard-coded rules for files or databases to access ; Ultrix offered nearly identical functionality to the Name Service Switch, using the configuration file < tt >/ etc / svc. conf </ tt >.

Earlier rivals such as the Illustrated Times and the Pictorial Times had either failed to compete or been merged with the ILN.