School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was the first time any of us had laughed since the morning began.

The writer began this special class by explaining his background thinking for creating such a section in the first place.

Preparation began slightly more than a year after independence with the first steps to organize rural communes.

On this giddy and oscillating platform over fifty feet from the floor, after a first dusting, we began to wash.

It was there, in the course of trying to prepare new men for the `` culture shock '' they might encounter in remote overseas posts, that he first began to develop a system of charting the `` norms of human communication ''.

To win her favors, her husband first took an additional job, then desperately began to embezzle from his employer.

Some date it from woman suffrage, others from when women first began to challenge men in the marketplace, still others from the era of the emancipated flapper and bathtub gin.

As she had done with Means, she gained rapidly at first, but then Baldy began to draw away.

In the field of entertainment there is no spur to financial daring so effective as audience boredom, and the first decade of the new device was not over before audiences began staying away in large numbers from the simple-minded, one-minute shows.

Player began with a birdie on the first hole, added five straight pars and then another birdie at the 9th.

-- those were His very first creative words -- He began the world with light -- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged into darkness.

That March he began his political career with his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.

After leading in the first six rounds of voting in the Illinois assembly, his support began to dwindle, and Lincoln instructed his backers to vote for Lyman Trumbull, who defeated opponent Joel Aldrich Matteson.

Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's ( ASA ) X3. 2 subcommittee.

During the Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 600 BC the Persians first began to use the abacus.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

The first Hercule Poirot began with tram passengers and Belgian refugees.

Racing began soon after the construction of the first successful gasoline-fueled automobiles.

A broad public discussion of environmental problems began in the mid-1980s, when the first " green " groups formed in opposition to Yerevan's intense industrial air pollution and to nuclear power generation in the wake of the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl '.

The AMD / USD exchange rate depreciated by 6. 1 percent in the first three quarters of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009, before it began to show the expected end-of-the-year appreciation.

The first known smelting of iron began in Anatolia, around 1800 BC.

In 1740, Benjamin Huntsman began melting blister steel in a crucible to even out the carbon content, creating the first process for the mass production of tool steel.

Cuarón began working in television in Mexico, first as a technician and then as a director.

They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song.

He had come to realize that the Italian stage needed reforming ; adopting Molière as his model, he went to work in earnest and in 1738 produced his first real comedy, L ' uomo di mondo (" The Man of the World ").

Then, somewhat later that same month, there was a meeting in Washington where the possible importance of the newly discovered phenomenon of fission was first discussed in semi-jocular earnest as a possible source of nuclear power.

Although air transport in Guyana had its beginnings in the 1920s when the first " bush " services were introduced, Government's earnest participation can be dated from 1947 when a Director of Civil Aviation was appointed to regulate the industry.

At the age of twenty, Feydeau wrote his first comic monologue in earnest.

With Cadena on board, Black Flag began national touring in earnest, and arguably saw two peaks: first as a commercial draw ( they sold out the 3, 500-seat Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, a feat they were never able to manage again ); and second, perhaps seeing the peak of attention from police in the Los Angeles area, due to the violence associated with Black Flag and punk rock in general.

Titus's rage to be free, apparent throughout the first two novels, begins in earnest at the end of Titus Groan.

After provoking his employers into firing him, he set about writing his first novel in earnest.

At first he continued his studies with Dehn, then with Adolf Bernhard Marx, while composing in earnest.

In his Galaxy Five-Star Shelf column of December, 1954, he states, "... I actually did not become an earnest devotee of the form until 1944, about a year before the Atomic Age actually opened .... The first item I remember reading that could be classified as science fiction was H. G. Wells ' Men Like Gods, back in 1924 when I was a college sophomore.

The first of three slow variations, this appears to be the beginning of the end: " The composer transports us into a new, more earnest, even melancholy realm of feeling.

While Edison oversaw cursory sound-cinema experiments after the success of The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) and other Edison Manufacturing Company productions, it was not until 1908 that he returned in earnest to the combined audiovisual concept that had first led him to enter the motion picture field.

O ' Sullivan their first historian noting that the association was founded by men who wished to " foster a spirit of earnest nationality " and as a means of " saving thousands of young Irishmen from becoming mere West Britons ".

The rebuilding of the Wings began in earnest in the offseason, as the Wings would have three first round draft picks before the 2006 season, adding Sean Greenhalgh, Luke Wiles, and Chad Thompson.

Chemistry as an earnest and respectable science is often said to date from 1661, when Robert Boyle of Oxford published The Sceptical Chymist — the first work to distinguish between chemists and alchemists — but it was a slow and often erratic transition.

* Charles Revson – Inspired by cosmetics competitor Hazel Bishop ( whose sponsoring of This Is Your Life provided big sales to Bishop ) to think about television sponsorship in the first place, Revson was never investigated in his own right for his role in the quiz show scandals despite testifying ( as did his brother, Martin ) before Congress when the scandals broke in earnest.

However, the first Chinese crewed flight program only began in earnest several decades later, when an accelerated program of technological development culminated in Yang Liwei's successful 2003 flight aboard Shenzhou 5.

Work on the design began in earnest ; the first prototype, to be ready in 1943 was initially to receive the name Mammut ( Mammoth ).

In the series ' first episode, Gillespie tells the earnest Kildare, " Our job is to keep people alive, not to tell them how to live.

The size and population of the town remained fairly steady until the 1970s, at which point housebuilding began in earnest around the periphery of the town, first to the south ( 1950s – 70s ), then a series of major expansions to the west ( 1980s-present ) along the line of the railway.

It is known that they were in earnest for the establishment of a government on broad lines ; and it is certain that the ministers and captains, the magistrates and men of affairs, forceful in the settlements from the beginning, were the men who took the lead, guided the discussions, and found the root of the whole matter in the first written declaration of independence in these historical orders.

From 1880 to 1892, the " Land War " in pursuance of the " Three Fs " ( Fair Rent, Fixity of Tenure and Free Sale ) first demanded by the Tenant Right League in 1850, was fought in earnest.

The first school had been opened in 1683 but education in the town began in earnest in 1859 with the opening of a seminary for the Dutch Reformed Church.

She resists him at first, but is eventually won over by his earnest appeals and falls into his arms.

They are represented by an image in his " mind's eye, a big photograph in a wooden frame: the delegates to the first congress of the Party ," in which they sat " at a long wooden table, some with their elbows propped on it, others with their hands on their knees, bearded and earnest.