Korzybzki was well received in numerous disciplinary realms, as evidenced by the positive reactions from leading persons in the sciences and humanities in the 1940s and 1950s.

Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.

A poignant sense of nostalgia accompanied the recordings of several gospel and blues singers in the 1940s and 1950s who used the song to remember their grandparents, traditions, and family roots.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

Charlton became one of the famed Busby Babes, the collection of precociously talented footballers who emerged through the system at Old Trafford in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as Matt Busby set about a long-term plan of rebuilding the club after the Second World War.

Walter Winchell and other writers continued to use the name in the 1940s and 1950s.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the lake remained small, but it grew again to 26, 000 square kilometers in 1963.

The 1940s and the 1950s in Yugoslavia were marked by internal migrations in Yugoslavia, as well as by urbanisation.

Another precursor was the early development of the theory of computation and the digital computer in the 1940s and 1950s.

The leading female stars of the 1940s and 1950s often wore and then endorsed the pieces produced by a range of designers.

The genre's vision of a troubled future is often called the antithesis of the generally utopian visions of the future popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

Thousand Days War ( 1899 – 1902 ) cost an estimated 100, 000 lives, and up to 300, 000 people died during " La Violencia " ( The Violence ) of the late 1940s and 1950s, a bipartisan confrontation which erupted after the assassination of Liberal popular candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.

Chromatography technique developed substantially as a result of the work of Archer John Porter Martin and Richard Laurence Millington Synge during the 1940s and 1950s.

Cleveland Stadium had been a symbol of the Indians ' glory years in the 1940s and 1950s.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the crest of the former metropolitan borough of Greenwich was used as a symbol for the club but this was not used on the team's shirts.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting.

The series ' art direction centers on American music and counterculture, especially the beat and jazz movements of the 1940s – 1960s and the early rock and roll era of the 1950s – 1970s, which the original soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts defines.

* Hudson Commodore, an automobile produced in the 1940s and 1950s by Hudson Motor Car Company

The first mainframe computers, using firstly vacuum tubes and later transistors in the logic circuits, appeared in the 1940s and 1950s.

Jones hit his stride in the late 1940s, and continued to make his best-regarded works through the 1950s.

These fields of study were essentially created by Claude Shannon, who published fundamental papers on the topic in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

DDT is the best-known of several chlorine-containing pesticides used in the 1940s and 1950s.

As early as the 1940s, scientists in the U. S. had begun expressing concern over possible hazards associated with DDT, and in the 1950s the government began tightening some of the regulations governing its use.

" And the song " New York, New York " ( by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the 1940s musical comedy and film, " On the Town ") explains that " The Bronx is up and the Battery's down.

Wills favored jazz-like arrangements and the band found national popularity into the 1940s with such hits as " Steel Guitar Rag ", " New San Antonio Rose ", " Smoke on the Water ", " Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima ", and " New Spanish Two Step ".

In the 1930s and 1940s, contra dances appear to have been done only in small towns in widely scattered parts of northeastern North America, such as Ohio, the Maritime provinces of Canada, and particularly northern New England.

Clay Perry, an American caver of the 1940s, wrote about a group of men and boys who explored and studied caves throughout New England.

New types of chromatography developed during the 1930s and 1940s made the technique useful for many separation processes.

During the 1930s and early 1940s, Alston created illustrations for magazines such as Fortune, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Melody Maker and others.

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s ; New York: Harper & Row, 1986 ; ISBN 0-06-015626-0 ( See e. g. pp. 45 – 46 for anecdotes revealing Lang's arrogance.

This defense was first used by U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

In the 1940s Lawrence was given his first major solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and became the most celebrated African American painter in the country.

By the early 1940s the dance was known as " New Yorker " on the West Coast.

The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, a modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, surrealism, Joan Miró, cubism, Fauvism, and early modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann and John D. Graham.

Murray's ideas nevertheless exerted great influence on certain pagan currents ; in the 1940s, Englishman Gerald Gardner claimed to have been initiated into a New Forest coven.

Its goal was to document the histories of black working-and middle-class residents of the South Bronx neighborhood of Morrisania in New York City since the 1940s.

In the late 1940s, New Orleans musicians were especially receptive to Cuban influences precisely at the time when R & B was first forming.

Isaac Asimov, a science fiction writer who began his career with John W, Campbell in Astounding magazine in the 1940s, said of the New Wave: " I hope that when the New Wave has deposited its froth and receded, the vast and solid shore of science fiction will appear once more.

While the term " sociobiology " can be traced to the 1940s, the concept didn't gain major recognition until 1975 with the publication of Edward O. Wilson's book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

In The Saint in New York, Teal's American counterpart, NYPD Inspector John Henry Fernack, was introduced, and he would become, like Teal, an Inspector Lestrade-like foil and pseudo-nemesis in a number of books, notably the American-based World War II novels of the 1940s.

" During the New Deal years as well as the 1940s, there was much less focus on Wall Street and finance.

Astor Piazzolla and Gerry Mulligan at the " Summit " recording, Milan, Italy 1974 .</ br > Photograph by Pino Presti Piazzolla, after leaving Troilo's orchestra in the 1940s, led numerous ensembles beginning with the 1946 Orchestra, the 1955 Octeto Buenos Aires, the 1960 " First Quintet ", the 1971 Conjunto 9 (" Noneto "), the 1978 " Second Quintet " and the 1989 New Tango Sextet.

* Bert Cook, New Zealander former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and ' 50s