Starting with the room completely blacked out, as it was when we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare.

Starting third baseman Ken Keltner and outfielder Ray Mack were both drafted in 1945 taking two more starters out of the lineup.

Starting with the Aesopian pattern, La Fontaine set out to satirize the court, the church, the rising bourgeoisie, indeed the entire human scene of his time.

Starting out as a cluster of large, open tents pitched next to the still-standing white wooden day beacon, the Millersville settlement on the island's western shore was named after a bureaucrat with the United States Department of Air Commerce.

Starting out with 16 million members in 1955 and dropping down to 13 million by 1984 is a significant loss.

Starting out as a hobby, SHADES became accessible in the UK as a commercial MUD via British Telecom's Prestel and Micronet networks.

Starting out with 15-year-old aluminum boats, Powerboat P1 boats evolved dramatically through the decade to the point where the mono-hull twin-engine boats were kicking out around 1800 hp.

*" The Engine, with the carriages attached to it, shall be run by hand up to the Starting Post, and as soon as the steam is got up to fifty pounds per square inch (), the engine shall set out upon its journey.

*" As soon as the Engine has performed this task, ( which will be equal to the travelling from Liverpool to Manchester ,) there shall be a fresh supply of fuel and water delivered to her ; and, as soon as she can be got ready to set out again, she shall go up to the Starting Post, and make ten trips more, which will be equal to the journey from Manchester back again to Liverpool.

Starting with 10. 6 ( Snow Leopard ), the user can choose out of a wide range list of multiple voices.

Starting in April, however, a Committee of Public Safety was formed, and men such as Jacques Hébert were beginning to call for Antoinette's trial ; by the end of May, the Girondins had been chased out of power and arrested.

Starting in the Communist Party of Slovakia, the only road to prominence in Communist Czechoslovakia, he became committee chairman in the town of Žiar nad Hronom, only to be dismissed in the year after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, when he delivered a pro-reform speech to the national congress in 1969 and was thrown out.

* 1987 Starting out: 1920-1947

Starting in 1920, Miró developed a very precise style, picking out every element in isolation and detail and arranging them in deliberate composition.

Starting with magazines, Gollancz then brought out a series of art books, after which he started signing novelists.

This diagram shows the operating sequence of a Medusa propulsion spacecraft ( 1 ) Starting at moment of bomb / pulse unit firing, ( 2 ) As the bomb's explosion pulse reaches the parachute canopy, ( 3 ) Pushes the canopy, accelerating it away from the bomb explosion as the spacecraft plays out the main tether with the winch, braking as it extends, starting to accelerate the spacecraft, ( 4 ) And finally winches the tether back in.

Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the Antichrist.

Starting out as mostly men arriving first and then later on bringing their families over.

Starting in 1922 and lasting until 1932, Kane spent about eleven months out of every year traveling around the United States as a freelance, self-syndicated journalist.

Starting from the north of the city, the ten neighborhoods are easy to trace out.

Starting in 1874, Henry Graham and J. Stanley Morton began operating a steam line out of St. Joseph.

Starting out his athletic career as a boxer, Columbu progressed into the sport of Olympic Weightlifting, powerlifting and later bodybuilding, winning the title of Mr. Olympia in 1976 and 1981.

Starting out with borrowed acoustic guitars, they developed a style, which incorporated three-part vocal harmony with the style of contemporary folk-rock acts, much like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

Starting out as a comedy writer, then a film director ( he wrote and produced the 1967 film Divorce American Style and directed the 1971 film Cold Turkey, both starring Dick Van Dyke ), Lear tried to sell a concept for a sitcom about a blue-collar American family to ABC.

Starting with the arrival of humans around 2000 years ago, nearly all of the island's megafauna became extinct, including:

Starting during the 1940s, the non-electrified railways in most countries had their steam locomotives replaced by diesel-electric locomotives, with the process being almost complete by 2000.

Starting with the world situation in 2000 following the Twilight War, players controlled one or more countries and guided them through 300 years of development, including the discovery of faster-than-light space travel, colonization of other Earthlike planets, and contact with a variety of sentient aliens.

Starting in mid-1999, Plant performed until the end of 2000 at several small venues with his folk-rock band, named Priory of Brion.

Starting with 800 in 1956, the Census Bureau reported populations of 3, 381 in 1960, 8, 281 in 1970, 14, 519 in 1980, and 21, 961 in 2000.

Starting with Windows 2000, shortcuts for common tasks like new, open and save were added, as well as a status-bar with a line counter ( available only when word-wrap is disabled ).

Starting after year 2000, XJRs were equipped with Jaguar's CATS ( Computer Active Technology Suspension ), which helped firm up the ride in sporty driving without compromising comfort during day-to-day use.

Starting around 2000, demand for ever-greater quantities of flash have driven manufacturers to use only the latest fabrication systems in order to increase density as much as possible.

Starting in the year 2000 the Teenage Cancer Trust has held annual charity concerts ( with the exception of 2001 ).

Starting on January 1, 2000, in honor of the millennium, MTV2 attempted to play every music video in the MTV library in alphabetical order.

Starting with Windows 2000, Windows NT-based operating systems also use the Windows Driver Model, while Windows NT 4 and earlier versions must use drivers written specifically for them.

Starting with the 2000 Gold Cup, the tournament field was increased to twelve teams.

Starting in 2000, MSP switched to lettered concourses, which has become standard practice at airports around the world.

Starting in the late 1980s, the Port of Seattle and a council representing local county governments considered the future of air traffic in the region and predicted that airport could reach capacity by 2000.

Starting in 2000, the platforms have been combined, with PC ( Windows or Linux ), Amiga, Mac and even high-end consoles competing in the same demo and intro competitions.

Starting in 2000, Lobo served as national spokesperson and backer for Body1. com, a consumer-targeted network of sites providing interactive content-rich information on medical technologies that treat ailments and diseases specific to body parts.

Starting with the Sega NetLink in 1996, Game. com in 1997 and Dreamcast in 2000, game consoles have also begun to support network gaming, over both the internet and LANs.

* Jacob Aagaard, Starting Out: The Grunfeld ( Everyman Chess, 2000 )

This evolved into Operation Starting Line in 2000 as other ministries joined Prison Fellowship in ministering to prisoners.

Starting in 2000, Dark Horse Comics began to release the full series in 28 smaller-sized trade paperback volumes, completing the series with the 28th volume in 2002.

Starting from 2000, members of the group took some of foreign citizens hostage in Cabinda.

Starting in 2000, Majerus conducted a detailed seven year study of moths, experimenting to assess the various criticisms.

Starting around the year 2000, Beretta began replacing some parts with polymer and polymer coated metal.

Starting in 2000, there have been five collections of previously unreleased studio and live material, four of which were two-CD sets.