In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi ( silent film narrator ) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself.

Karpov improved so quickly under Botvinnik's tutelage that he became the youngest Soviet National Master in history at fifteen in 1966 ; this tied the record established by Boris Spassky in 1952.

These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive Annales approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the Année Sociologique ( many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg ) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes.

The forks of the Kalamazoo River provided power for mills, and Albion quickly became a mill town as well as an agricultural market.

He quickly became the most successful publisher in Germany, eventually owning twenty-four printing-presses and having many offices in Germany and abroad.

They quickly became the Achilles ' heel of the system because of their combination of an overly complex mechanical design with a very low-cost internal flex circuit system.

Panned by many entertainment critics of its time, it quickly became a huge ratings success for most of its nine-year run on CBS.

After World War II, Brazil developed a steel mill at Volta Redonda, in Rio de Janeiro State, and quickly became the largest steel producer in Latin America.

The instability in the Balkan region in the early 1900s quickly became a precondition for a new war.

Concerto for Orchestra quickly became Bartók's most popular work, although he did not live to see its full impact.

But it very quickly became clear that ' outsider ' savers were needed whose motive was profit through interest on deposits.

Thus permanent building societies quickly became mortgage banks and in such institutions there always existed a conflict of interest between borrowers and savers.

Although at first the disagreement appeared to be minor and inspired by personal conflicts, for example, Lenin's insistence on dropping less active editorial board members from Iskra or Martov's support for the Organizing Committee of the Congress which Lenin opposed, the differences quickly grew and the split became irreparable.

Factories processed, preserved, canned, and packaged a wide variety of foods, and processed cereals quickly became a defining feature of the American breakfast.

When Spain opened the Cuban trade ports, it quickly became a popular place.

Acting quickly before all parliamentarians became aware of the change of government, Fraser and his allies were able to secure passage of the appropriation bills, and the Governor-General dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election.

In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a protest movement about the domestic situation in China.

The term casuistry quickly became pejorative with Blaise Pascal's attack on the misuse of casuistry.

Many of Claudius ' less solid supporters quickly became Nero's men.

Until about 2000, users of Unix desktops regarded CDE as the de facto standard, but at that time, other desktop environments such as GNOME and K Desktop Environment 2 were quickly becoming mature, and became almost universal on the Linux platform, which already had a larger user base than most commercial Unixes in total.

It was released in the summer of 1987 and quickly became popular with bulletin board system ( BBS ) operators and other users.

The mounted men-at-arms quickly became an important force in Western European tactics.

Without being backed by gold or foreign currency, the money issued by Li and Yan quickly declined in value until it became virtually worthless.

In Spain, it quickly became a court favorite.

For example, Gorbachev quickly became the party's de facto Second Secretary, even though Chernenko did not support him.

During the great bull market in gold of the 1970s, the gold Krugerrand quickly became the No. 1 choice for investors worldwide wanting to buy gold.

The city began to expand quickly after the discovery of gold in the Kaczawa River between Legnica and Złotoryja ( Goldberg ).

In the early colonial history of the Americas, " native gold and silver was quickly expropriated and sent back to Spain in fleets of gold-and silver-laden galleons " mostly from mines in Central and South America.

In 1577 the Company of Cathay was formed to support Martin Frobisher ’ s hunt for the Northwest Passage, although Frobisher and his investors quickly became distracted by reports of gold at Hall ’ s Island.

A pawnshop might have too little inventory if, for example, it mostly buys jewels and gold that it resells or smelts — or perhaps the pawnshop owner quickly sells most items through specialty shops ( e. g., musical instruments to music stores, stereos to used hi-fi audio stores, etc .).

In 1870 diamonds were discovered in Kimberley, while in 1886 some of the world's largest gold deposits were discovered in the Witwatersrand region of Transvaal, quickly transforming the economy into a resource-dominated one.

Australia and New Zealand had already been forced off the gold standard by the same pressures connected with the Great Depression, and Canada quickly followed suit with the United Kingdom.

The gold standard was abandoned in September, and the pound quickly and sharply depreciated on the foreign-exchange market, as overvaluation of the pound would imply.

He was sent to study music at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Maiella in Naples, where he quickly demonstrated his diligence and precocious talent, earning a gold medal from the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione ( Department of Education ).

The corporation bought property along the English coast to implement the gold-from-seawater process, but the company quickly faded from public view, and never produced any gold.

Slaves were considered cargo by the ship owners, to be transported to the Americas as quickly and cheaply as possible, there to be sold to labor in coffee, tobacco, cocoa, cotton and sugar plantations, gold and silver mines, rice fields, construction industry, cutting timber for ships, and as house servants.

Once in the desert, Howard, the old-timer of the group, quickly proves to be by far the toughest and most knowledgeable ; he is the one to discover the gold they are seeking.

The album quickly went gold.

The Spaniards ' greed quickly surfaced and overshadowed previous intentions when rumors of gold at the Marga Marga mines, in the vicinity of Valparaiso arose, and the settlers began forcing the natives to work there.

With the discovery of gold, the area quickly became a mecca for those trying to make their fortune.

This started a small scale insurrection across Transylvania that was quickly quieted by the Hungarian army, except for the Apuseni Mountains, on the north of Hunedoara, where the tribune Avram Iancu struggled to keep the Hungarian forces away from controlling the gold mines.

The discovery of gold made the Transvaal overnight the richest and potentially the most powerful nation in southern Africa, but it attracted so many Uitlanders ( in 1896 approximately 60, 000 ) that they quickly outnumbered the Boers ( approximately 30, 000 white male Boers ).

Gold was discovered at Rand Mine near the site in 1895 and a mining camp quickly formed, and was named Rand Camp, both mine and camp were named after the gold mining region in South Africa.

During the 1890s, gold was discovered and Miners quickly traveled to the area and populated it in order to strike it rich ; however, the industry waned for many years, yet later had some success with a small boom during the 1930s.

In 1897, gold was discovered in the mountains nearby and Sumas quickly grew to more than 2, 000 residents as gold miners and mining suppliers moved in.

The free gold supply in stream beds would become depleted somewhat quickly, and the initial phase would be followed by prospecting for veins of lode gold that were the original source of the placer gold.