According to Atanasoff's account, several key principles of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer were conceived in a sudden insight after a long nighttime drive during the winter of 1937 – 38.

He had been severely affected by several tragedies occurring in a short period of time: Robert E. Howard's death by suicide ( 1936 ), Lovecraft's death from cancer ( 1937 ) and the deaths of his parents, which left him exhausted.

In May 1937, HMS Arethusa had to tow HMS Hunter into port after Hunter hit a mine off Almeria that killed and wounded several British sailors.

Although several reviews were critical of the film – Pauline Kael said it " staggers along " and Stanley Kauffmann thought Cukor's direction was like " a rich gravy poured over everything, not remotely as delicately rich as in the Asquith-Howard 1937 Pygmalion " — the film was a box office hit which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the Directors Guild of America Award after having been nominated for each several times.

Most notably, early in 1937, Pacelli asked several German cardinals, including Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber to help him write a protest of Nazi violations of the Reichskonkordat ; this was to become Pius XI's 1937 encyclical, Mit brennender Sorge.

Thomas R. Bruce ( postmaster 1898 – 1928 ) was the first islander to design a postage stamp, the 1922 – 1937 George V ship-design — this significantly contributed to island revenues for several years.

Between 1936 and 1937, there were several medical cases and papers released on the possible link between PCBs and its detrimental health effects.

He had supporting roles in several major films: Rose-Marie ( 1936 ), Dodsworth ( 1936 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ); and leading roles in The Dawn Patrol ( 1938 ), Three Blind Mice ( 1938 ), and Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), playing opposite such stars as Errol Flynn, Loretta Young and Laurence Olivier.

After George Washington Slept Here ( 1940 ), Kaufman and Hart called it quits, although throughout the 1930s, Hart worked both with and without Kaufman on several musicals and revues, including: Face the Music ( 1932 ); As Thousands Cheer ( 1933 ), with songs by Irving Berlin ; Jubilee ( musical ) ( 1935 ), with songs by Cole Porter ; and I'd Rather Be Right ( 1937 ), with songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

" Moore and Henry Kuttner also have Northwest Smith hum the song in their 1937 short story " Quest of the Starstone ," which quotes several lines of lyrics.

The dictionary went through several editions, with the last released in 1937.

However, this is merely a rumor, as Harlow died in June 1937, several months before MGM had even purchased the rights to Oz.

Stage Door ( 1937 ) is an RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City.

Between 1932 and 1937, he was caught for several incidents of petty theft, breaking and entering, and disturbing the peace.

After the disappointing Conquest ( 1937 ), Garbo was one of several major stars — including Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, and Katharine Hepburn — called " box office poison " in an open letter published by the National Theater Distributors of America.

While this plan was not confirmed by the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee, in 1935 – 1937 several rural localities of Kolsky and Polyarny Districts were merged into Murmansk anyway.

Glenn Miller compiled several musical arrangements and formed his first band in 1937.

The urban working classes lead several unsuccessful uprisings prior to the 1937 presidential elections.

Belgium has resorted several times to international dispute settlement, notably in cases at both the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration with the Netherlands concerning the diversion of water from the Meuse ( 1937 ) the frontier at the enclave of Baarle-Hertog ( 1959 ) and the revitalisation of the so called Iron Rhine railroad ( 2005 ).

The film was initially scheduled to begin filming on September 1, 1937 and wrap on October 31st, but several factors delayed the film.

Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage refers to the footage filmed by several newsreel companies of the Hindenburg disaster where the zeppelin Hindenburg crashed and burned on May 6, 1937.

Other experiments that he undertook had a clearer purpose, for instance in 1937 he performed experiments to understand the vitrification process that had occurred at several Iron Age forts in northern Britain.

His plays are more varied in tone than the novels, several being influenced by J. W. Dunne's theory of time, which plays a part in the plots of Dangerous Corner ( 1932 ) and Time and the Conways ( 1937 ).

* Austin beats Leo to win 1937 Prep Bowl ; another contender for the highest attendance ever ( estimated at over 120, 000 spectators ).

The all-time attendance record at the Hawthorns was set on 6 March 1937, when 64, 815 spectators crammed in to see Albion beat hot-favourites Arsenal 3 – 1 in the FA Cup quarter-final.

The race was marred as Hermann Lang had crashed into spectators on lap five, resulting in twelve injuries and two deaths. Manfred Von Brauchitsch driving the W125 at the 1937 Donington Grand Prix The final competitive race Mercedes entered the W125 into was the 1937 Donington Grand Prix.

Wolfgang Lotz, writing about the stadium in 1937, commented that it would contain twice the number of spectators originally accommodated by the Circus Maximus.

It was built with an original capacity of 48, 000 spectators in 1937, at the time was called " white elephant " because it was thought could never be filled.

In 1937, Maes left the 1937 Tour de France together with his Belgian team while he was leading the general classification, in response to actions from French spectators and decisions from the jury.

The Kirkintilloch Burning Disaster in 1937 fulfilled the second part of the prophecy, when the bodies of ten victims were carried by rail to Achill.

The first two acts were successfully premièred in Zürich in 1937, but for personal reasons Helene Berg subsequently imposed a ban on any attempt to " complete " the final act, which Berg had in fact completed in particell ( short score ) format.

Feral cats, first introduced in 1937, were eradicated in 1965.

In its 1937 invasion of China, Japan employed some 50, 000 bicycle troops, and similar forces were instrumental in Japan's march or " roll " through Malaysia in World War II.

The study was completed in 1936 and the ban lifted, at which point large-scale releases were undertaken ; by March, 1937, 62, 000 toadlets had been released into the wild.

However, during the era of segregation many Southern Democrats were conservatives, and they played a key role in the Conservative Coalition that controlled Congress from 1937 to 1963.

Historically, Charlton's most successful period was the 1930s, when the club's highest league finishes were recorded, including runners-up of the First Division in 1937.

All-Union Population Censuses were carried out in the USSR ( which included RSFSR and the other republics ) in 1920 ( urban only ), 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

Though he originally just contributed gag ideas to some duck cartoons by 1937 Barks was ( principally with partner Jack Hannah ) originating story ideas that were storyboarded and ( if approved by Walt ) put into production.

During the period the Board existed, Brooklyn College ( 1930 ), Queens College ( 1937 ) and a number of other four-year colleges and two-year community colleges were created.

In all, over 200 works were exhibited, surrounded by incendiary slogans, some of which also ended up written on the walls of the Nazi's Entartete Kunst exhibition in 1937.

Of the 640 British production companies registered between 1925 and 1936, 20 were still going in 1937.

Numerous efforts were made in 1936 and 1937, but all were successful only in further weakening the PNH's opponents.

Some multi-track recordings were made on optical sound film, which led to new advances used primarily by MGM ( as early as 1937 ) and Twentieth Century Fox ( as early as 1941 ).

By 1937, all Harley-Davidson's flathead engines were equipped with dry-sump oil recirculation systems similar to the one introduced in the " Knucklehead " OHV engine.

From 1937 the Lord Mayor and the state commissioners of Hanover were members of the NSDAP ( Nazi party ).

Huey, Dewey, and Louie were created by Ted Osborne and Al Taliaferro, and first appeared in a newspaper comic strip on October 17, 1937.

The first steps towards the finalization of Interlingua were taken in 1937, when a committee of 24 eminent linguists from 19 universities published Some Criteria for an International Language and Commentary.

Imperial Conferences ( Colonial Conferences before 1911 ) were periodic gatherings of government leaders from the self-governing colonies and dominions of the British Empire between 1887 and 1937, before the establishment of regular Meetings of Commonwealth Prime Ministers in 1944.

They were held in 1887, 1894, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1911, 1921, 1923, 1926, 1930 and 1937.

Three of Gershwin's songs (" They Can't Take That Away From Me " ( 1937 ), " Long Ago and Far Away " ( 1944 ) and " The Man That Got Away " ( 1954 )) were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, though none won.

In 1937 – 38, a campaign against alleged enemies of the Stalinist regime culminated in the Great Purge, a period of mass repression against the population in which hundreds of thousands of people were executed.