Meanwhile, in what are now the northwestern Chinese provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, and Ningxia, there emerged a Western Xia Dynasty from 1032 to 1227, established by Tangut tribes.

Meanwhile, the synchronization gear ( called the Stangensteuerung in German, for " pushrod control system ") devised by the engineers of Anthony Fokker's firm was the first system to see production contracts, and would make the Fokker Eindecker monoplane a feared name over the Western Front, despite its being an adaptation of an obsolete pre-war French Morane-Saulnier racing airplane, with a mediocre performance and poor flight characteristics.

Meanwhile air combat on the Western Front had a much different character.

Meanwhile, the growing confederations of Franks and Alemanni broke through the frontier fortifications and settled along the Rhine frontier, invading Gaul, Hispania and Italy as far as North Africa, while Saxon pirates ravaged the Western Europen coasts.

Meanwhile, in Western Punjab a form of the Urdu script, known as Shahmukhi is still in use.

Meanwhile, friction between the Western Allies and Soviets was steadily rising.

Meanwhile, the rebellion was gaining sympathy across the country, and as far afield as Western Somalia.

Meanwhile, the Dolphins defeated the AFC Central Champion Cincinnati Bengals 34-16 in the divisional round, and the AFC Western Champion Oakland Raiders, 27-10 for the AFC Championship.

Meanwhile outside of the initiate societies others such as the Martinist Order founded by Papus in 1891 followed a prior theosophical current which was closely linked to the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition and Western esotericism.

Meanwhile, the gradual liberalization of political life in Morocco during the 1990s belatedly reached Western Sahara around 2000.

Meanwhile, the surviving Eastern Roman Empire began to expand under the emperor Justinian, who eventually recaptured North Africa from the Vandals, and attempted to fully recover Italy as well in the hope of re-establishing Roman control over the lands once ruled by the Western Roman Empire.

Meanwhile, films such as The Big Lebowski, which plucked actor Sam Elliott out of the Old West and into a Los Angeles bowling alley, and Midnight Cowboy, about a Southern-boy-turned-gigolo in New York, transplanted Western themes into modern settings for both purposes of parody and homage.

Meanwhile, the other source of Western culture, arose from humanistic philosophy of Ancient Greece, based on independent thought from first principles.

Meanwhile, he spent his summer vacations at the Western Desert Monastery of St. Mary, known as “ Deir El-Suryan ” ( Syrian Monastery ).

Meanwhile, Ezra Cornell had bought back one of his bankrupt companies and renamed it the New York & Western Union Telegraph Company.

Meanwhile Japan endeavoured to learn about foreign sciences through the process of Rangaku (" Western studies ").

Meanwhile, the final years of provincial mandatory retirement legislation ended his Western Ontario teaching years in 2005

Meanwhile the United States under President Eisenhower saw Japan as the economic anchor for Western Cold War policy in Asia.

Meanwhile in Germany large parts of the population were starving at a time when according to a study done by former U. S. President Herbert Hoover the nutritional condition in countries that in Western Europe was nearly pre-war normal ".

Meanwhile, Western fears of Soviet troops arriving at the German frontiers increased the interest of Western powers in the war.

Meanwhile, the islands, as well as Taiwan, used Western Standard Time ( UTC + 8 ) until 1937, 1 hour behind the Central Standard Time of Japan ( UTC + 9 ).

Meanwhile, the new head of G-2, Major General Clayton L. Bissell, at Groves ' and Furman's urging, decided to create a new, even larger Alsos Mission for Western Europe in March 1944.

Meanwhile, by the first century AD and possibly as early as the fourth century BC in Western Tanzania, certain related Bantu-speaking metallurgists were perfecting iron smelting to produce medium grade carbon steel in pre-heated forced-draught furnaces.

Meanwhile the Allies had once again attacked the Bavarian stronghold at Lutzingen.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

Meanwhile, existing victorious Allies such as France, Belgium, Italy, Greece and Romania gained territories, while new states were created out of the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the Russian and Ottoman Empires.

Meanwhile in Italy, Joachim Murat, whom the Allies had allowed to remain King of Naples after Napoleon's initial defeat, once again allied with his brother-in-law, triggering the Neapolitan War ( March to May, 1815 ).

Meanwhile the Allies tried in vain to form a line of battle.

Meanwhile the Allies strengthened their positions around Montélimar, posing a threat for the whole German retreat.

Meanwhile the Allies were well fed, average adult calorie intake was ; U. S. 3200 – 3300 ; UK 2900 ; U. S. Army 4000.

Meanwhile, the Allies were involved in a similar convoy action.

Meanwhile the Allies were having problems as well.

Meanwhile, the Japanese forces attacking Laha were reinforced and a concentrated assault on the Allies began, including naval artillery, dive bombers, fighter planes and probing attacks by infantry.

Meanwhile, as part of their general strategy in the Pacific, the Japanese sought to capture Port Moresby and prevent the Allies from using Australia as a base of operations.

Meanwhile, over 1, 000 French wounded were abandoned and captured by the Allies.

Meanwhile spring had passed well into summer.

Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene -- having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 -- left that august body ( voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November ), as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate.

Meanwhile, he had this miserable cold, and as he leaned against the refrigerator, watching the rain make sandy puddles at his feet, the doctor's prescription for lots of sun seemed like a hollow mockery.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

Meanwhile Zadok, of the house of Eleazar, had been made High Priest.

Meanwhile, in the garden, Fredrik and Carl-Magnus reflect on how difficult it is to be annoyed with Desiree, agreeing " It Would Have Been Wonderful " had she not been quite so wonderful.

Meanwhile, the courtesans from the house of Marcus Lycus – who had been recruited as mourners at " Philia "' s ersatz funeral – have escaped, and Lycus sends his eunuchs out to bring them all back, adding to the general pandemonium.

Meanwhile, on the Upper Rhine, Villars had been forced onto the defensive as battalion after battalion had been sent north to bolster collapsing French forces in Flanders ; there was now no possibility of his undertaking the re-capture of Landau.

:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.

Meanwhile, the French feudatories on the left wing had thoroughly defeated the Imperial forces opposed to them.

Meanwhile, also in 1859, he had been made professor ordinarius of theology and of Biblical paleography, this latter professorship being specially created for him ; and another book of travel, Aus dem heiligen Lande, appeared in 1862.

Meanwhile, the Browns unexpectedly had Cleveland to themselves ; the NFL's Cleveland Rams, who had continually lost money despite winning the 1945 NFL championship, moved to Los Angeles after that season.

Meanwhile, Murbella collapses under the pressure of Bene Gesserit training, giving in to " word weapons " that the Bene Gesserit had planted to undermine her earlier Honored Matre identity.

Meanwhile von Salza had to abandon his hope to establish an Order's State in the Burzenland region of Transylvania, which had led to an éclat with King Andrew II of Hungary.

Meanwhile, Dr. Boylston had inoculated 242 people, with only six resulting in death.

Meanwhile he had his first divorce.

Meanwhile Hewlett Packard ( HP ) had been developing a pocket calculator.

Meanwhile, Francisco Pizarro's brother, Juan Pizarro, had arrested Inca Manco Inca Yupanqui, further complicating Almagro's plans as it heavily increased the dissatisfaction of the Indians submitted to Spanish rule.

Meanwhile in Hungary a small-scale revolt had broken out in May and was fast gaining momentum.

Meanwhile, IBM began to worry that it was losing control of the industry it had created.