( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

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.

Today, in the era of the integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does not perform the function required of it.

The historic roots of Algerian literature goes back to the Numidian era, when Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.

Spalding's. 796 career winning percentage ( from an era when teams played about once or twice a week ) is the highest ever achieved by a baseball pitcher.

Nimzowitsch's chess theories, when first propounded flew in the face of widely held orthodoxies enunciated by the dominant theorist of the era, Siegbert Tarrasch, and his disciples.

* General assessment: an extensive but antiquated telecommunications network inherited from the Soviet era ; quality has improved ; the Bulgaria Telecommunications Company's fixed-line monopoly terminated in 2005 when alternative fixed-line operators were given access to its network ; a drop in fixed-line connections in recent years has been more than offset by a sharp increase in mobile-cellular telephone use fostered by multiple service providers ; the number of cellular telephone subscriptions now exceeds the population

It was once fatal before the CT era, now, if the abscess is treated before the person goes into a coma, then the death rate has been estimated from 5 % to 20 % although it is greater in cases of multiple abscesses, when raised intracranial pressure is observed and depending on the level of neurological dysfunction on presentation.

This was the golden era of Negro League baseball, a time when it produced some of its greatest stars.

However, in an era when Wayne Gretzky was scoring 200 points a season, Federko never got the attention many felt he deserved.

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.

" According to West and Sanders, when talking about conspiracies in the Vietnam era, Pipes includes within the fringe element anyone who entertains the thought that conspiracies played a role in the major political scandals and assassinations that rocked American politics in the Vietnam era.

An interesting phenomenon occurred during the World War II era, when sterling silver was often incorporated into costume jewelry designs.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

During this brief era, when China was in all respects a multi-state system, five regimes rapidly succeeded one another in control of the old Imperial heartland in northern China.

Geologically, the Cenozoic is the era when the continents moved into their current positions.

He also attacked when least expected, at midday, when armies of that era traditionally were resting.

The Leyland era lasted just one year, as a frustrated Leyland retired following the season, not to manage in the majors again until 2006, when he won an AL Pennant with the Detroit Tigers.

Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.

An example of this secular politicization is seen when Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor supported Pope Benedict IX, the most corrupt of any of the popes of the era.

To call the dance " collegiate shag " was not as common during the swing era as it is today, but when it was used ( as it was with other vernacular dances of the time ) it was meant to indicate the style of the dance that was popular amongst the college crowd.

This is in deep contrast to the Lenin era ( 1917 – 1924 ), when six Congresses were held, five conferences and 69 meetings of the Central Committee.

Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.

One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.

The dawning of a newly successful era in Roma's footballing history was brought in with another Coppa Italia victory, they beat Torino on penalties to win the 1979 – 80 cup.

He was not successful in part due to the lack of government centralization in Iran during the era.

Her sympathetic renderings of American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.

Lang's magnum opus, M — released in 1931, two years before his departure from Germany — is among the first major crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, one in which the protagonist is a criminal ( as are his most successful pursuers ).

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist from the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943.

Another feature of NDC rule carried over from the PNDC era is faithfulness to what a leading scholar of Africa has called " one of the most successful neoclassical economic reform efforts supported by the IMF and the World Bank.

Despite these handicaps, at war's end the club recruited many players who represented the club during its most successful era in the early 1950s.

One of the most successful Soviet designer / inventor in this area was Rostislav Alexeyev who some consider the ' father ' of the modern hydrofoil due to his 1950's era high speed hydrofoil designs.

The era saw great industrialization, urbanization ( including the massive rebuilding of Paris by Baron Haussmann ) and economic growth, but Napoleon III's foreign policies were not so successful.

Musical stars such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were among the most popular and highly respected personalities in Hollywood during the classical era ; the Fred and Ginger pairing was particularly successful, resulting in a number of classic films, such as Top Hat ( 1935 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ) and Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

This began the team's most successful era: with Porsche and Honda engines, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna took between them seven drivers ' championships and McLaren six constructors ' championships.

If successful, these effort could usher in a new era of neural computing that is a step beyond digital computing, because it depends on learning rather than programming and because it is fundamentally analog rather than digital even though the first instantiations may in fact be with CMOS digital devices.

Two of the most successful and influential acts of the era, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, were among the first to experiment with such references.

The Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful survivors of the psychedelic era, performing on Dutch television in 1968

Exceptions included The Platters, with songs including " The Great Pretender " ( 1955 ) and The Coasters with humorous songs like " Yakety Yak " ( 1958 ), both of which ranked among the most successful rock and roll acts of the era.

Cliff Richard and his backing band, The Shadows, were the most successful home grown rock and roll based acts of the era.

Alma-Tadema was among the most financially successful painters of the Victorian era, though never matching Edwin Henry Landseer.

Supporters of the Sandinistas see their era as characterized by the creation and implementation of successful social programs which were free and made widely available to the entire nation.

During the dot-com boom, the international language industry started a new era, and SYSTRAN entered into agreements with a number of translation integrators, the most successful of these being WorldLingo.

Punk rock continued to make strides in the musical community ; it gave birth to many sub-genres like hardcore, which has continued to be moderately successful, giving birth in turn to a few counterculture movements, most notably the Straight Edge movement which began in the early era of this decade.

* Liverpool FC were the most successful club side of the era, becoming English champions on six occasions ( 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, and 1988 ) and winning two European Cups ( 1981, 1984 ).

** The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes ( although Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of mass production ).

It proved very successful, and flourished as the dominant philosophy from the Hellenistic period through to the Roman era.