The business of baseball began to prosper along with other entertainments, and performers -- thanks partly to George Herman Ruth's spectacular efforts each season to run his salary higher and higher -- prospered too.

Student leaders began sporadic efforts to negotiate theater integration several months ago.

As Grant continued to wear down Lee's forces, efforts to discuss peace began.

Botany began with early human efforts to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science.

Peace efforts began in Paris in 1989 under the State of Cambodia, culminating two years later in October 1991 in a comprehensive peace settlement.

It appears that copper was not widely exploited at first and that efforts in alloying it with tin and other metals began quite soon, making it difficult to distinguish the distinct Chalcolithic cultures from later periods.

However, it would not be until the early 1970s that courses began to crop up in various places in the Midwest and the East Coast ( some perhaps through Sappenfield's promotion efforts, others probably independently envisioned ).

After that first serious job in films, Capra then began focusing his efforts to finding similar openings in the film industry.

Isaac Singer, who made improvements to an existing model of a sewing machine in the 1850s, began one of the first franchising efforts in the United States, followed later by Coca-Cola, Western Union, etc.

Serious efforts to understand how proteins are encoded began after the structure of DNA was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick, who used the experimental evidence of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin ( among others ).

The Taft Administration saw the huge Honduran debt, over $ 120 miilion, as a contributing factor to this instability and began efforts to refinance the largely British debt with provisions for a United States customs receivership or some similar arrangement.

20th century efforts to revive the harpsichord began with instruments that used piano technology, with heavy strings and metal frames.

Ismail Khan claims that these efforts began with a botched assassination attempt.

These cats were removed through efforts which began in the mid-1960s and lasted until 1990 when they were completely eradicated.

Despite Ribbentrop's best efforts, Matsuoka was sacked as Foreign Minister later in July 1941, and the Japanese-American talks began.

As a result, Christian armies began to devote their efforts to sacred purposes.

Modern Shinto began as the various ancient animistic traditional spirituality of Japan, which only became an institutionalized spirituality much later as a result of efforts to separate out influences of other religions brought into Japan from abroad.

Despite this, unions were formed and began to acquire political power, eventually resulting in a body of labour law that not only legalized organizing efforts, but codified the relationship between employers and those employees organized into unions.

Weber began his studies of the subject in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he argued that the redefinition of the connection between work and piety in Protestantism and especially in ascetic Protestant denominations, particularly Calvinism, shifted human effort towards rational efforts aimed at achieving economic gain.

His efforts began to accrue debt as the Titans ' first two seasons were mediocre with attendance dropping in the team's second year.

Until recently electrical energy has not been converted and stored on a major scale, however new efforts to that effect began in the 21st century.

The taxonomy of the red wolf has been debated since before efforts began in 1973 to save it from extinction.

Formal efforts backed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service began to save the red wolf from extinction in 1973 when a captive breeding program was established at the Point Defiance Zoological Gardens, Tacoma, Washington.

Since the 1980s, South Korea, now in possession of more modern military technology than in previous generations, has actively began shifting its defense industry's areas of interest more from its previously homeland defense-oriented militarization efforts, to the promotion of military equipments and technology as mainstream products of exportation to boost its international trade.

Most of his political measures, indeed, stood the test of experience, but in ecclesiastico-political matters he witnessed with sorrow the gradual decline of Catholicism and the spread of Lutheranism within his dominions, in spite of his earnest efforts and forcible prohibition of the new doctrine.

Practical development began in earnest in 1942 when these efforts were transferred to the authority of the U. S. Army and became the Manhattan Project.

After all these wonderful years working together, we realized that now is the time to pursue our personal goals and solo efforts in earnest ... No matter what happens, we will always love each other as friends and sisters and will always support each other as artists.

Harrison would later talk of spending “ three months ” on the phone, trying to organise what became the Concert for Bangladesh ( implying that efforts were under way from late April onwards ), but it is widely acknowledged that the project began in earnest during the last week of June, five or six weeks before 1 August.

After World War II, the university reopened and underwent structural developments as post-war reconstruction efforts began in earnest, requiring more investment in law and social sciences.

Zahir makes earnest efforts to reach a good understanding with parliament ; and when he presents his list of ministers to the king in July, he is able to put forward the general desire that the administration concentrate attention on the difficulties of low-income groups.

Patel's sincere and earnest efforts inspired Kurien to dedicate himself to the challenging task before them, so much so, that when Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was to visit Anand later, to inaugurate Amul's plant, he embraced Kurien for his groundbreaking work.

Over the next four months their efforts to clothe Indian women and children continued in earnest.

It is the story of a famous filmmaker Sandy Bates ( Allen ), who is plagued by fans who prefer his " earlier, funnier movies " to his more recent artistic efforts, while he tries to reconcile his conflicting attraction to two very different women: the earnest, intellectual Daisy ( Jessica Harper ), and the more maternal Isobel ( Marie-Christine Barrault ).

“ These Articles of Faith were not produced by the labored efforts and harmonized contentions of scholastics, but were struck off by one inspired mind at a single effort to make a declaration of that which is most assuredly believed by the church, for one making earnest inquiry about the truth.

Some books, movies, and other literary works end up being unintentionally funny because they are comically clichéd or overwrought, despite appearing to be earnest and serious efforts by their creators.

He belonged to a family of rank, and his parents entrusted his education to Pere de la Rue, a Jesuit, who made earnest efforts to induce him to join the order.

It was not until the early 1990s, following the lifting of martial law, that legislative efforts striving to create a public television station emerged in earnest.

Whereas it appears from official reports that Dr. Mary E. Walker, a graduate of medicine, " has rendered valuable service to the Government, and her efforts have been earnest and untiring in a variety of ways ," and that she was assigned to duty and served as an assistant surgeon in charge of female prisoners at Louisville, Ky., upon the recommendation of Major-Generals Sherman and Thomas, and faithfully served as contract surgeon in the service of the United States, and has devoted herself with much patriotic zeal to the sick and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own health, and has also endured hardships as a prisoner of war four months in a Southern prison while acting as contract surgeon ; and Whereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary rank cannot, under existing laws, be conferred upon her ; and Whereas in the opinion of the President an honorable recognition of her services and sufferings should be made.

Work on repairing the break in the water main enabled the firemen to find a manhole cover on Howard Street through which they could gain access to both the broken water main and the tunnel itself, and firefighting efforts began in earnest.

World War I marked the first earnest conflict involving significant use of submarines and consequently marked the beginning of major efforts to counter that threat.

Even though it was seen by critics as one of the bands less successful efforts, it was noted as “ earnest.

Under Elizabeth's succession he returned to England, and made earnest efforts to secure what would now be called a low-church settlement of religion ; he was strongly committed to the Elizabethan reforms.

# Every pilot of Alpha Eta Rho shall bend his earnest efforts to the advancement of the profession.

In 1951 the first major efforts to produce controlled fusion for power production started in earnest.

On February 1, 1861, before the war really began in earnest, Hendry led efforts to create Polk County, Florida, and was elected to its first Board of County Commissioners.

His earlier efforts, indeed, express the superficial doubt and pert frivolousness characteristic of his time ; but in the works of his riper years he is no mere " poet of pleasure ," as Thorild contemptuously styled him, but a worthy exponent of earnest moral feeling and wise human sympathies in felicitous and melodious verse.