School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was the first time any of us had laughed since the morning began.

The writer began this special class by explaining his background thinking for creating such a section in the first place.

Preparation began slightly more than a year after independence with the first steps to organize rural communes.

On this giddy and oscillating platform over fifty feet from the floor, after a first dusting, we began to wash.

It was there, in the course of trying to prepare new men for the `` culture shock '' they might encounter in remote overseas posts, that he first began to develop a system of charting the `` norms of human communication ''.

To win her favors, her husband first took an additional job, then desperately began to embezzle from his employer.

Some date it from woman suffrage, others from when women first began to challenge men in the marketplace, still others from the era of the emancipated flapper and bathtub gin.

As she had done with Means, she gained rapidly at first, but then Baldy began to draw away.

In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.

Player began with a birdie on the first hole, added five straight pars and then another birdie at the 9th.

-- those were His very first creative words -- He began the world with light -- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged into darkness.

That March he began his political career with his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.

After leading in the first six rounds of voting in the Illinois assembly, his support began to dwindle, and Lincoln instructed his backers to vote for Lyman Trumbull, who defeated opponent Joel Aldrich Matteson.

Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's ( ASA ) X3. 2 subcommittee.

During the Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 600 BC the Persians first began to use the abacus.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

The first Hercule Poirot began with tram passengers and Belgian refugees.

Racing began soon after the construction of the first successful gasoline-fueled automobiles.

A broad public discussion of environmental problems began in the mid-1980s, when the first " green " groups formed in opposition to Yerevan's intense industrial air pollution and to nuclear power generation in the wake of the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl '.

The AMD / USD exchange rate depreciated by 6. 1 percent in the first three quarters of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009, before it began to show the expected end-of-the-year appreciation.

The first known smelting of iron began in Anatolia, around 1800 BC.

In 1740, Benjamin Huntsman began melting blister steel in a crucible to even out the carbon content, creating the first process for the mass production of tool steel.

Cuarón began working in television in Mexico, first as a technician and then as a director.

They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song.

Strategy & Tactics began life in 1966 as a wargaming fanzine published by Chris Wagner ( then a staff sergeant with the US Air Force in Japan ), at first in Japan, then moving to the United States with Wagner.

The full title of sergeant major fell out of use until the latter part of the 18th century, when it began to be applied to the senior non-commissioned officer of an infantry battalion or cavalry regiment.

Discharged as a sergeant, he began acting on stage.

He began his baseball career at the age of 16, playing for a barnstorming team in Mineola, Texas, and went on to join the United States Army, where he became the youngest African American to serve as a first sergeant in the Army during World War II.

These supporters began organizing in associations, among others under the direction of Ovadia Hazzi, a Yemeni Jew and former sergeant in the Israeli army who was married to a wife from the Beta Israel community since the Second World War.

In the 1960s, Paul Kopsch ( an Ohio coroner ), Daniel Turcos ( a police sergeant ), and Donald Ward ( Kopsch's special investigator ), began experimenting with special purpose handgun ammunition.

Under heavy fire Warrant Officer Jack Kirby, the Company Sergeant Major, and Sergeant Neill Rankin, the platoon sergeant from 12 Platoon, began to distribute the ammunition.

He began his service in the ranks, and as a sergeant was awarded the Military Medal on 23 February 1918.

In the Virgin Missing Adventures novels The Eye of the Giant by Christopher Bulis and The Scales of Injustice by Gary Russell, Yates began as a sergeant in UNIT together with Benton and was promoted to Captain at the end of Scales, which took place between the television stories Inferno and Terror of the Autons.

The tradition of the pioneer sergeant began in the eighteenth century, when each British infantry company had a pioneer who marched at the head of the regiment.

Hammerstein was promoted to sergeant and began to lead the new war robots ; as a result he was one of the few whose movements weren't remotely controlled by human generals.

Early in the 17th century, individual regiments began appointing their own sergeants major to perform a similar role on a smaller scale ( these evolved into modern-day majors ): the older, senior position became known as sergeant major general to distinguish it.

His first assignment as a first sergeant began with the 4576th Transportation Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. Six months later he was assigned to the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand.

Born in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey ; educated in the public schools, by private tutor, and at the New York University School of Commerce at New York City ; began his career as a recording violinist for Thomas Edison in 1915 and later held executive positions with the Edison Enterprises ; during the First World War served as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps 1917-1919 ; lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve 1929-1932 ; colonel in the New Jersey National Guard 1941-1943 ; member of the New Jersey Workmen's Compensation Investigating Commission 1932-1933 ; New Jersey director of the Federal Housing Administration 1934-1935, and as deputy and later as assistant administrator at Washington, D. C. from 1935 to 1938 ; presidential elector in 1940 on the Democratic ticket ; member of the New Jersey State Board of Regents in 1941 and 1942 ; member of the board of directors of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce in 1943 ; commissioner of the Port of New York Authority in 1943 ; appointed on November 26, 1943, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Warren Barbour and served from November 26, 1943, to December 7, 1944, when a duly elected successor qualified ; was not a candidate for election to the vacancy in 1944 ; chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs ( Seventy-eighth United States Congress ); resumed his former business pursuits ; died in New York City, New York ;.

After the war began, he joined the RAF as a sergeant in 1940 then was commissioned and transferred to the British Army on the General List in 1941, reaching the rank of Captain.

In 1944, the Waffen SS began using a universal camouflage uniform intended to replace the wool field uniform.

Following in 2000 the Padres began wearing a camouflage, to honor the military ; the jersey has since gone through three different versions.

Beginning in 1966, the natural aluminum finish of TAC aircraft began to be replaced by the Southeast Asian camouflage motif.

Posted initially at Cairo and Palestine, he found himself stuck at Headquarters twenty miles behind El Alamein as a camouflage officer as the Second Battle of El Alamein began.

By early 1941 several other ship captains began using the same camouflage, though no formal testing was done to determine how well it worked.

The combat helmets worn by the Guardia and Nacional Police were the US steel M-1 issued with a ‘ Mitchell pattern ’ camouflage cover and the Israeli-made Orlite OR-201 ballistic helmet, which began to replace the earlier M-1 in 1977.

Current systems began with a United States Air Force program which placed low-intensity blue lights on aircraft as counterillumination camouflage.

Somehow or the other, no turbulent uprising resulted, and, if the natives harbored ill-feelings, they managed to camouflage it even as they began construction of the municipal hall in 1883, obediently continuing its construction up to 1885, and even as they changed the roof of the church into galvanized iron.