The framing scenes, on the other hand, both take place in the late Spring of 1940, just at the moment of the defeat of France in the second great world conflict.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

But the continuing charm of the other children -- Sally in 1940 and Jack in 1944 -- and all John's success at his work only made Edythe's dizziness and general uselessness more glaring.

The element was first produced by Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940.

* 1940 Peril at End House ( dramatised by Arnold Ridley )

* 1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.

* 1940 – The Rhythm Night Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

In 1940, shortly after the German occupation of Denmark, Bohr began his physics degree at the University of Copenhagen.

He arrived in London in 1940 at the start of World War II.

Thermoplastic glue may have been invented around 1940 by Procter & Gamble as a solution to water-based adhesives commonly used in packaging at that time failing in humid climates, causing packages to open.

Another was unveiled at St Mildred's Church, Bread St, London, in 1932 ; that church was destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940, but the principal elements of the monument were re-erected in St Mary-le-Bow at the west end of Watling Street, near Saint Paul's Cathedral, in 1968.

From 1940 to 1943, the Italian Royal Navy ( Regia Marina Italiana ) established BETASOM, a submarine base at Bordeaux.

A portrait of Broadway in the early part of the 20th century and " The Great White Way " late at night appeared in " Artist In Manhattan "( 1940 ) written by the painter-writer Jerome Myers:

During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

Alston became staff artist at the Office of War Information and Public Relations in 1940, creating drawings of notable African Americans.

Barnard matriculated from the Beaufort West High School in 1940, and went to study medicine at the University of Cape Town Medical School, where he obtained his MB ChB in 1945.

A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

From 1935 to 1940 he lectured at the University of Rochester and wrote The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child ( 1939 ), based on his experience in working with troubled children.

In 1940 Rogers became professor of clinical psychology at Ohio State University, where he wrote his second book, Counseling and Psychotherapy ( 1942 ).

Some efficient designs for estimating several main effects simultaneously were found by Raj Chandra Bose and K. Kishen in 1940 at the Indian Statistical Institute, but remained little known until the Plackett-Burman designs were published in Biometrika in 1946.

Ernest Lawrence Thayer ( August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940 ) was an American writer and poet who wrote " Casey at the Bat ".

He died in 1940, at age 77.

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

Early in 1940, he was trained for a commission after, whilst working in a kitchen, answering the question of an inspecting brigadier with a Greek proverb ; on several occasions, he told colleagues that he expected to be at least a major-general by the end of the war.

In 1920, Otto Hunziker authored The Butter Industry, Prepared for Factory, School and Laboratory, a well-known text in the industry that enjoyed at least three editions ( 1920, 1927, 1940 ).

Milk bars were known in the United States at least as early as 1940 as evidenced by contemporary radio recordings.

Since in early July 1940 it was believed by both Hitler and Raeder that Britain would soon surrender, the decision to resume the Z Plan, which meant spending hundreds of millions of Reichsmarks building warships that would take at least five years to finish, reflected plans for an ultimate war with the United States.

The love affair with Dietrich began in September 1937 when they met on the Lido while in Venice for the Film Festival and continued through at least 1940, maintained mostly by way of letters, cables, and telephone calls.

Entries begin in 1940 for radio and 1948 for television, and at least 1, 000 new entries are received every year — programs created by local, national, and international producers.

By 1940 there were at least fifty labor unions representing local workers.

The story, at least insofar as related to newspaper columnist Hedda Hopper, is that the couple met in Havana when Lucy and the Mertzes vacationed there in 1940.

Despite these efforts, the Vickers factory was successfully bombed by the Luftwaffe and extensively damaged on 4 September 1940 with nearly 90 aircraft workers killed and at least 419 injured.

Until at least 1940, contestants were required to complete a biological questionnaire tracing their ancestry.

Losses were also suffered in the air duels in 1940, at least six Fiats were destroyed and about a dozen damaged.

Consumer products such as baby alarms have been available at least since 1940.

In at least two towns, the army created secret weapons caches on 10 April 1940.

Outside Andalusia, seseo also existed in parts of Extremadura and Murcia up to at least 1940.

The Laurel and Hardy comedies, once the Roach studio's biggest drawing cards, were now the studio's least important product and were phased out altogether in 1940.

According to Manhattan borough historian Michael Miscione, there have been at least three instances where the dead-man's switch was used successfully – in 1927, 1940, and 2010.

There was a major eruption from 1903 through 1904, and minor activity persisted until at least 1940 and possibly 1942.

According to a secret report filed by the Hungarian political secretary in Bucharest in late 1940, three main factions existed: the group gathered around Horia Sima, a dynamic local leader from the Banat, which was the most pragmatic and least Orthodox in its orientation ; the group composed of Codreanu's father, Ion Zelea Codreanu, and his brothers ( who despised Sima ); and the Moţa-Marin group, which wanted to strengthen the movement's religious character.

Following Broadway Melody of 1940 Powell was sidelined for many months following a gall stone operation and things changed somewhat for the worse, at least as far as Powell's movie career was concerned.

Experimental systems were already being set up in June 1940, and by July it was clear, to everyone's delight, that the system was usable to at least 300 miles at altitudes of 10, 000 feet.

In, Ted Williams ' rookie season with the Sox, Doerr began a string of 12 consecutive seasons with 10 or more home runs and 73 or more runs batted in ; in 1940 the Red Sox became the 12th team in major league history to have four players with 100 RBI, with Foxx, Williams, Cronin and Doerr each collecting at least 105.

After information was made available to at least one owner of a franchise, Washington was not drafted by any team for the 1940 NFL Draft.

Matford ceased car production in 1940 ( in Poissy ) with the build up of truck orders for the French army, though an unknown number were made during the German occupation, at least till 1942.