Steinberg claims that these early years of orchestra participation were of invaluable help to his career.

The international economy of 1960 is markedly different from that of the early postwar years.

In recent years, however, a wind of change seems to be blowing through early English historical circles.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

My husband's hours away from home for the past years have been from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the early part of the week, and as late as 8 or 9 on week-ends.

Or it might have been the absent nephews she addressed, consciously playing with the notion that this was one of the summers of their early years.

During these early years the repair of watches and clocks and the building of special clocks for church steeples formed an important part of the young man's occupation.

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.

That his moods, even in his early years, are those of his people, does him honor, as his music honors those who inspired it.

He worked in oil for years before beginning his work in watercolor, and his first public recognition and early honors, including his election to the Academy, were for his essays in the heavier medium.

The early years of the twentieth century seem very far away.

When it comes to rate of early growth, the Indian python leads with a figure of about 3 feet 6 inches per year for the first two years, more or less.

In the primary grades, reading permeates almost every aspect of school progress, and the children's early experiences of success or failure in learning to read often set a pattern of total achievement that is relatively enduring throughout the following years.

Throughout the early years of World War 2,, reports persisted that the Axis powers had used gas -- Germany in Russia, Japan in China again.

They arrived in Washington about the same time during the early postwar years: Kennedy as the young Congressman from Massachusetts ; ;

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

The discovery that movies are a form of fiction was made in the early years of this century and it was made chiefly by two men, a French magician, Georges Melies, and an American employee of Edison, Edwin S. Porter.

The effort produced a valuable record of stage techniques in the early years of the century and some interesting records of great theater figures who would otherwise be only names.

Obviously Sloan's early years were influenced by his close friend Robert Henri.

Theresa had seen him through the right college, into the right fraternity, and though pursued by various girls and various mammas of girls, safely married to the right sort, however much in the early years of that match his wife, Anne, had not seemed to understand poor George.

In its early years, there were many variants of the Greek alphabet, a situation which caused many different alphabets to evolve from it.

Portugal has been present in Angola for 400 years, occupied the territory in the 19th and early 20th century, and ruled over it for about 50 years.

The order is thought to have first diverged from other related monocots some 120-130 million years ago ( early in the Cretaceous period ), although given the difficulty in classifying the families involved, estimates are likely to be uncertain.

Here again it seems that useful approximations of the size and geographical distribution of the population were obtained in this way in the late pre-war and early post-war periods.

Fishing vessels were major post-war users, but it was also used on aircraft, including a very early ( 1949 ) application of moving-map displays.

The post-war decades were relatively stable ( with the notable exception of an armed independence movement in the Basque Country ), and the country experienced rapid economic growth in the 1960s and early 1970s.

In the early post-war period, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica remained under British administration, while the French controlled Fezzan.

The relationship probably hit a post-war nadir around the early 1990s, when Japan's " economic rise " was seen as a threat to American power.

In the post-war era, the early years of the Cold War, the Soviet Red Army and NATO further developed the equipment and doctrine for mechanized infantry.

The post-war motels, especially in the early 1950s to late 1960s, sought more visual distinction, often featuring eye-catching colorful neon signs which employed themes from popular culture, ranging from Western imagery of cowboys and Indians to contemporary images of spaceships and atomic era iconography.

Some of these ideas were put into practice in the early post-war political movement " Maasina Ruru "-often corrupted to " Marching Rule ".

The decade also witnessed the early beginnings of new technologies ( including computers, nuclear power and jet propulsion ), often first developed in tandem with the war effort, and later adapted and improved upon in the post-war era.

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail ( 1945 ), and the post-war Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), and Stray Dog ( 1949 ), directed by Akira Kurosawa are considered important early works leading to his first masterpieces of the 1950s.

This included the conversion of Handley Page Halifax bombers into freighters, six of which were sold to Bond Air Services, an early post-war independent British airline.

In the early 1950s a modern new station was erected, a typical post-war building with concrete as its main material.

During the early post-war era ( 1947 – 1955 ), eight foreign language films received Special or Honorary Awards.

Pre-fabricated buildings, marine craft, and plastic and composite materials were also early post-war activities, but these were eventually sold off.

Many of the country's largest firms were nationalized in the early post-war period to protect them from Soviet takeover as war reparations.

Engineering and research also saw great growth and expansion from the post-war period until the early 1970s.

German historian Hans-Erich Volkmann noted problems with German historiography, outlining some of the unreliability inherent in early post-war studies, which were still significantly affected by the Nazi era, and that the Bydgoszcz events were and still are used for political purposes.

The line presented the Metropolitan with a problem – so successful was the suburban traffic that by the early 1930s, the lines into Baker Street were becoming overloaded, a problem which was exacerbated by the post-war flight from the City of London to the West End of London.

In post-war years attention turned to attempts by the Soviet Union and the Comintern to surreptitiously support revolutionary activities within Britain, and MI5's expertise combined with the early incompetence of the Soviets meant the bureau was successful once more in correctly identifying and closely monitoring these activities.

During the early post-war years, the McIntosh Company had complete control over the sale of lots as well as the resale of homes.

With its revitalized and oil-based economy, Premont continued to grow and prosper during the early post-war years.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s Scotland saw a creation of several " post-war new towns ".

Ferris thrived during the early post-war years.

On the outside, it is decorated with sculptures of soldiers, workers and aviators, while inside walls and ceilings feature wreaths, bay leaves and stars, and until early 1990s, the Soviet hammer and sickle, typical decor for Soviet public buildings of early post-war years.