After composing music for the Diaghilev-produced ballets Petrushka ( 1911 ) and The Rite of Spring ( 1913 ), Stravinsky turned to neoclassicism, a development culminating in his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex ( 1927 ).

In 1927, the yellow fever virus was isolated in West Africa, which led to the development of two vaccines in the 1930s.

It was launched in 1927 by Colonel Jim Porter after three years of development.

The development of the leucotomy procedure was the work of the Portuguese physician and neurologist António Egas Moniz, who was highly acclaimed for his work on cerebral angiography ( radiographical visual of the blood vessels in the brain ) in 1927.

Mao ’ s " Intellectual " Marxist development can be divided into five major periods: ( 1 ) The Initial Marxist Period from 1920 – 1926 ; ( 2 ) the formative Maoist period from 1927 – 1935 ; ( 3 ) the mature Maoism period from 1935 – 1940 ; ( 4 ) the civil war period from 1940 – 1949 ; and ( 5 ) the post-1949 period, following the revolutionary victory.

McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics.

In 1927 the International Paper Company built a processing mill at Camden, following development of south Arkansas ' lumber industry.

Many believe that the interest and development by Mr. Stovall contributed to the on-going growth of the town more than any other individual at this time ( Tri-County Advertiser, June 16, 1927.

Natural gas was discovered southwest of the city in 1927, leading to the development of the Hugoton Natural Gas Area and the transformation of Hugoton into a major center of natural gas extraction.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which was established on April 30, 1921, oversaw the development of the Holland Tunnel ( completed in 1927 ) and the Lincoln Tunnel ( in 1937 ), allowing for easier vehicular travel between New Jersey and New York City, bypassing the waterfront.

' Her views on child development, which she expounded in 1927 in her first book, An Introduction to the Technique of Child Analysis, clashed with those of Melanie Klein ... was departing from the developmental schedule that Freud, and his analyst daughter, found most plausible '.

In 1927, DuPont decided to fund fundamental, pure research: research not deliberately aimed at the development of a money-making product.

Since the early 1920s Trenchard had supported the development of a flying bomb and by 1927 a prototype, code-named " Larynx ", was successfully tested.

The first of two Bittern prototypes was flown in 1927, although performance was poor and the development stopped.

Further development occurred after World War I, with the Winter Gardens and Pavilion in 1927, the open air pool, with its arched concrete diving board, and an airfield dating from the inter-war period.

Crawford was the USC baseball coach from 1924 to 1929 and was instrumental in the development of the California Intercollegiate Baseball Association in 1927.

While there, she began part-time graduate studies in aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan, enrolling in the fall of 1927 in the full-time Master of Science in Engineering program to begin aircraft design work and conduct research and development in the University's new aeronautics facilities.

However, it was not until development of the commercial 35mm Leica camera in 1925, and the first flash bulbs between 1927 and 1930 that all the elements were in place for a " golden age " of photojournalism.

From 1927 to 1947 it was the research and development center for the Air Corps, and during World War II a flight test center.

* From the Greeks to Darwin: an outline of the development of the evolution idea ( 1927 )

The area remained very rural until the coming of the Odakyu Electric Railway in 1927 and the Sagami Railway in 1935, which spurred development, but the area was mostly farmland when the Imperial Japanese Army Academy relocated to the Zama area in 1937.

The most significant of these Acts is the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, which was passed in the United Kingdom in recognition of the creation of the Irish Free State, a development that necessitated a change in King George V's title.

He became a special adviser to the Secretary of the Interior on Colorado River development projects in 1927.

However, disagreements among the three planning bodies proved so fundamental that a new Board of Architectural Consultants was created on May 19, 1927, to advise the groups on the development of Federal Triangle.

During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.

In the Nitrophosphate process or Odda Process ( invented in 1927 ), phosphate rock with up to a 20 % phosphorus ( P ) content is dissolved with nitric acid ( HNO < sub > 3 </ sub >) to produce a mixture of phosphoric acid ( H < sub > 3 </ sub > PO < sub > 4 </ sub >) and calcium nitrate ( Ca ( NO < sub > 3 </ sub >)< sub > 2 </ sub >).

During that process of gradual independence, the governor general took on an ever expanding role: in 1904, the Militia Act granted permission for the governor general to use the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian militia, in the name of the sovereign and actual Commander-in-Chief, and in 1927 the first official international visit by a governor general was made.

The Commission also had little power over networks ; in fact, the Radio Act of 1927 made almost no mention of the radio networks ( notably NBC and, a bit later CBS ) that were in the process of dominating radio.

" De Forest's process continued to be used through 1927 in the United States for dozens of short Phonofilms ; in the UK it was employed a few years longer for both shorts and features by British Sound Film Productions, a subsidiary of British Talking Pictures, which purchased the primary Phonofilm assets.

Parrinder however, equally skeptical of the concept of the Wake as a dream, argues that Joyce came up with the idea of representing his linguistic experiments as a language of the night around 1927 as a means of battling his many critics, further arguing that " since it cannot be said that neologism is a major feature of the dreaming process, such a justification for the language of Finnegans Wake smacks dangerously of expediency.

In 1927, Erling Johnson, working at Odda Smelteverk, invented a process to produce fertilizers.

Brunswick itself switched to a more conventional microphone recording process in 1927, with better results all round.

The company discontinued recording by this process in August 1926, and did not return to electric recording until February 1927, after signing a new agreement to license the RCA Photophone recording process.

In 1927 they developed a more efficient thermal cracking process for turning crude oil into gasoline.

By the 1920s, Norsk Hydro's electric arc-based technology for manufacturing artificial fertilizer was no longer able to compete with the newly developed Haber-Bosch process, and in 1927 the company formed a partnership with the German company IG Farben in order to gain access to this process.

Ford was in the process of building a new plant, buying back stock, and began an 18-month process of tooling-up to replace the Model T with the Model A in 1927.

In 1927, Captain William Greig Anderson was fishing for tuna and in the process, discovered pearl beds within the lagoon.

The nitrophosphate process ( also known as the Odda process ) was a method for the industrial production of nitrogen fertilizers invented by Erling Johnson in the city of Odda, Norway around 1927.

The process was refined and popularized by the German cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan while he was working on the movie Metropolis ( 1927 ), although there is evidence that other film-makers were using similar techniques earlier than this.

Variations of this process soon evolved, and the first sulfuric acid anodizing process was patented by Gower and O ' Brien in 1927.

In 1927, Thorndike appeared in a short film of the cathedral scene from Saint Joan made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.

She also appeared in a 1927 short film, made in the DeForest Phonofilm process, of her performing as Saint Joan in an excerpt of the play by George Bernard Shaw.

In 1927 he began to extend the process beyond fish to quick-freezing of meat, poultry, fruit, and vegetables.