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became and first
It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.
When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.
In many cases the revolutionary production has offered no more than sensational effects: the first hearing was fascinating and the second disillusioning as the gap between sound and substance became clearer.
After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.
( Sanity, solvency and relations with our wine merchant took a beating that first summer as we inadvertently became the neighborhood free-drink stop.
In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.
Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.
Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.
The word amphibian became restricted in the taxonomical sense to what we now use around 1600, with the taxon " Amphibia " first published in scientific classification circa 1819.
* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.
* In 1896 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo from Norway became the first people to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean.
* In 1919, the American NC-4 became the first seaplane to cross the Atlantic ( though it made a couple of landings on islands and the sea along the way, and taxied several hundred miles ).
* In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first female to make a solo flight across the Atlantic
* In 1999, after rowing for 81 days and 4, 767 kilometres ( 2, 962 mi ), Tori Murden became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
The Greek alphabet thus became the world's first " true " alphabet.
Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.
Argon became the first member of the noble gases to be discovered.
A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.
With Robert Morison ’ s 1672 Plantarum umbelilliferarum distribution nova it became the first group of plants for which a systematic study was published.
Aramaic gradually became the lingua franca throughout the Middle East, with the script at first complementing and then displacing Assyrian cuneiform as the predominant writing system.
During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.
Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).
* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

became and million-selling
It earned a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year and remains the only father-daughter duet to hit No. 1 in the US It became Sinatra's third million-selling disc.
Its million-selling song " For What It's Worth " became a political anthem for the turbulent late 1960s.
The album became Gaye's first million-selling album and featured two more top-ten hits, " Mercy Mercy Me ( The Ecology )" and " Inner City Blues ".
In late 1960, the group recorded their first hit single, " Shop Around ", which became Motown's first million-selling single.
However, many Japanese music critics complained about rockabilly, and Hideo Murata's 1961 " pure Japanese style "- like song " Ōsho ," composed by Toru Funamura, became a million-selling single in Japan.
It quickly became a gold record, selling over one million copies before the RIAA started awarding platinum records for million-selling albums.
" Hooked on a Feeling " became Thomas's second million-selling record.
" My Toot Toot " became a national and international million-selling phenomenon.
After several successive R & B songs such as " I Idolize You ", " You Should've Treated Me Right ", " Poor Fool " and " Tra La La ", the duo reached the top 20 on the pop charts with " It's Gonna Work Out Fine ", which became the duo's second million-selling single and also garnered them their first Grammy Award nomination.
It reached Billboard's Top 10 and became a million-selling Platinum-certified album, earning Midler the 1973 Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
In the spring and summer of 1992, his Comedy Video Classics became a million-selling home video through direct marketing and television advertisements.
Page's version became the most-popular and would become Page's seventh million-selling single.
" " I Went to Your Wedding " became more successful, and the single became Page's eighth million-selling single in the United States ( ironically, it displaced Jo Stafford's version of " You Belong to Me " at No. 1 on Billboard's Best Seller chart ).
The song became Wells ' second million-selling single.
Delight Slight Light KISS ( 1988 ) became the first million-selling record for her.
Because of those strong tunes, it became her second double million-selling album.
Taylor's best-known songs are " Wild Thing ," which, though originally recorded in 1965 by Jordan Christopher & The Wild Ones, became famous as both a 1966 hit single for The Troggs and a 1967 live performance by Jimi Hendrix, and " Angel of the Morning ," a hit for Merrilee Rush in 1968, and then a million-selling single in 1981 for country-pop singer Juice Newton.
It eventually became their first " million-selling single ," topping the charts in 1966.
Elvis Presley's ' 68 Comeback Special was an enormous success, the highest-rated television special of the year and his closing song titled " If I Can Dream " became his first million-selling record in several years.
Their album By Request, containing both chart-toppers along with the million-selling " No Matter What " from 1998, topped the albums chart for nine weeks and became the most successful album in their career.
In 1962, it became EMI's first million-selling classical record, earning it " gold disc " status.
The result was " It's All Right ", a 1963 million-selling gold single that topped the R & B charts and made it to # 4 on the pop charts, and became one of the group's signature songs.
T-Neck Records was a record label founded by members of the family group The Isley Brothers in 1964, which became notable for distributing the first national debut appearances of Jimi Hendrix on backing guitar, and which later became a million-selling label after the Isleys began releasing their own works on several other labels scoring hits such as " It's Your Thing " and " That Lady ".

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