`` It's been going since 1908 when I was a junior in college.

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.

Huxley's mother died in 1908 when he was 14.

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

In what was a dramatic five game series, their NLDS victory over the Atlanta Braves was the franchise's first postseason series win since they went to the World Series in 1908, when they beat the Detroit Tigers in five games.

Experiments with color films were made as early as the late 19th century, but practical color film was not commercially viable until 1908, and for amateur use when Kodak introduced Kodachrome for 16 mm in 1935 and 8 mm in 1936.

* 1908 – Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.

In 1908, when he presented the concept in Bell's annual report, there were over 4000 local and regional telephone exchanges, most of which were eventually merged into the Bell System.

Veteran science fiction writer Jack Williamson ( 1908 – 2006 ) when asked in 1991: " Did the Wave's emphasis on experimentalizm and its conscious efforts to make SF more ' literary ' have any kind of permanent effects on the field?

During this period he studied under, among others, Alexander Winkler, Anatoly Lyadov, Nikolai Tcherepnin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ( though when Rimsky-Korsakov died in 1908, Prokofiev noted that he had only studied orchestration with him ' after a fashion ' – that is, he was just one of many students in a heavily attended class — and regretted that he otherwise ' never had the opportunity to study with him ').

Roosevelt certified William Howard Taft to be a genuine " progressive " in 1908, when Roosevelt pushed through the nomination of his Secretary of War for the Presidency.

In 1908 Bang and Ellerman showed that a filterable virus could transmit chicken leukemia, data largely ignored till the 1930s when leukemia became regarded as cancerous.

" She was frustrated by the new rule but was the guest of honor nonetheless when the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged celebrated its opening on June 23, 1908.

According to Cooper there was " Early Cubism ", ( from 1906 to 1908 ) when the movement was initially developed in the studios of Picasso and Braque ; the second phase being called " High Cubism ", ( from 1909 to 1914 ) during which time Juan Gris emerged as an important exponent ; and finally Cooper referred to " Late Cubism " ( from 1914 to 1921 ) as the last phase of Cubism as a radical avant-garde movement.

Special postage stamps were issued from October 1898 until 1908, when a new communications cable was laid to the mainland, which made the pigeon post redundant.

They also encouraged other collectors of fairy tales, as when Yei Theodora Ozaki created a collection, Japanese Fairy Tales ( 1908 ), after encouragement from Lang.

John died in 1908 at 85, when Arthur was 57.

He was elected to the RSDLP's Central Committee in 1907 and sided with Lenin in 1908 when the Bolshevik faction split into Lenin's supporters and Alexander Bogdanov's followers.

The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in America.

In June 1908, Edward became the first reigning British monarch to visit the Russian Empire, despite refusing to visit in 1906, when Anglo-Russian relations were strained in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, the Dogger Bank incident, and the Tsar's dissolution of the Duma.

N. Graydon ( first name unknown ) was the first such traveller in 1907, and again in 1908 when he represented OUP exclusively in India, the Straits and the Far East.

Zhou's birth mother Wan died in 1907 when Zhou was 9, and his adoptive mother Chen in 1908 when Zhou was 10.

The litigation over patents between all the major American film-making companies had continued, and at the end of 1908 they decided to pool their patents and form a trust to use them to control the American film business.

From there, the firm evolved through various partnerships and, in 1908, Holden & Frost moved into the business of minor repairs to car upholstery.

Anecdotically, top French business school HEC was also created in 1881, while Harvard Business School, founded in 1908, was born just one year after France's prestigious ESSEC Business School.

In 1908 Bruce, Wellington Suburbs, Wellington South, Masterton, Ohinemuri and Eden voted ‘ no-license ' and many wine makers were denied the right to sell their wines locally and were forced out of business.

Brick Company, established in 1908, produced brick for many of the existing buildings in Exeter today, the Exeter Mercantile started in 1912 and the Exeter Sun has been in business for 100 years.

Maize State Bank, the town's first financial institution, opened in 1901, and, by 1908, a business community had emerged.

Kennedy, leaf tobacco broker in Paducah, April 1908 reported in a private letter to a business relation in Rotterdam ( Netherlands )"... Out of all the mischief that has been done the law has not been able to convict and punish the night-riders.

On July 5, 1908, a fire began in the middle of the business block and burned most of the stores.

The entire business section of Springdale was destroyed by fire, 9 July 1908.

The business was so successful that in 1908, the photographic operations were spun off into their own corporation, Fotografiska AB.

Comedian Jack_Benny # The_Maxwell | Jack Benny ( shown here shaking hands with Harry S. Truman from the seat of a c. 1908 Maxwell Roadster ) kept the Maxwell familiar in U. S. popular culture for half a century after the brand went out of business. The brand name of motor cars was started as the Maxwell-Briscoe Company of Tarrytown, New York.

The American Record Company was a United States record label, in business from about 1904 to 1908.

When Knox died in 1908, his wife Rose Knox assumed management of the business.

This German firm, initially operating at Cannstatt near Stuttgart, was the origin of the business variously known as Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft from 1890 to 1926, Daimler-Benz from 1926 to 1998, DaimlerChrysler from 1998 to 2007 and now Daimler AG or Daimler Germany, which has also manufactured vehicles since the 1890s but no cars with the name Daimler since 1908.

In 1908, two years after David Taylor had left the business, the name " Waitrose " ( a portmanteau of the remaining founders ' names ) was adopted.

From 1892 until the end of 1908, he was also the business manager for the 20th Century Press, a radical publisher.

In 1908, Edmonds-Metzel adopted the American Flyer brand name for the trains, and by 1910, Edmonds-Metzel was out of the hardware business and changed its name to American Flyer Manufacturing Company.

The five ferry routes operated from these landings withered and went out of business by 1908.

Founded in 1908 in downtown Chicago as a part-time evening program, the school was chartered to educate business leaders with " good moral character.

The school, originally founded in 1908 as Northwestern University's School of Commerce, a part-time evening program, was one of 16 founding members of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the organization that sets accreditation standards for business schools.

A key event occurred in 1908, in a dispute between the German colonial administration and the Malo o Samoa, or Samoan Council of Chiefs, over the establishment of a copra business owned and controlled by native Samoans.

The allocation of churches and manses was a slow business, but by 1908 over 100 churches had been assigned to the Free Church.

The business survived until 1908, when it was wound up at auction.

King Gillette sought protection of his fledgling business for safety razors when he applied for the trademarks for razors and razor blades, soap, and shaving brushes on Wednesday, May 27, 1908.