As the world began to take on the guise of an immense air raid or gas oven, I believe his art became meaningless to him.

The emperor's role became more autocratic, although Zhu Yuanzhang necessarily continued to use what he called the " Grand Secretaries " ( 内阁 ) to assist with the immense paperwork of the bureaucracy, including memorials ( petitions and recommendations to the throne ), imperial edicts in reply, reports of various kinds, and tax records.

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.

Similarly an immense immigration of Italians into South Africa ensured that spaghetti and meatballs became an essential part of South African cuisine.

Defeating the Taira clan, Yoritomo became de facto ruler of much of Japan and founder of the Kamakura shogunate, an institution destined to last 141 years and to have immense repercussions over the country's history.

In 1932, her immense popularity allowed her to dictate the terms of her contract and she became increasingly choosy about her roles.

Felix became heir to the immense fortune after his older brother Nikolai Felixovich, Count Sumarokov-Elston ( born 1883 ), was killed in a duel on June 22, 1908.

National Pipe and Tube became the major industry in 1973, constructing an immense facility in south Liberty.

The buzz surrounding the tall, skilful teenager's goalscoring for the club's reserves – 30 goals in 20 games going into that month – was already immense and it was only a matter of time before he became a regular first-teamer.

In the course of time, however, owing to its immense popularity among the masses ( and even royal patronage ) it became ' orthodox ' and continues to be one of the most important modes of religious expression in modern India.

The word peso ( meaning weight in Spanish ) was the name of a coin that originated in Spain and became of immense importance internationally.

It is here that he sat in the Estates of Brittany and became disgusted with the immense power the privileged classes held.

The idea only avoided being scrapped thanks to the French promise to send forces in early September, and the arguing became an immense strain on the government.

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.

He became a recluse, eating all of his meals from cans and becoming obsessed with developing an immense tropical garden on his winter estate in Coconut Grove, Florida.

Filmed in only twenty-three days with a relatively small budget, it became an immense box office success.

He became a hero in a society dominated by violence ; notwithstanding his liberal views, his unswerving faith and obvious bravery led to immense respect.

Eventually both schools died out, but the influence of Shenhui was so immense that all later Chan schools traced their origin to Huineng, and " sudden enlightenment " became a standard doctrine of Chan.

She was born in the small village Chandrahar, and was known under the name Zoon ( the Moon ) because of her immense beauty until her marriage with Yusuf Shah Chak, who later became ruler of Kashmir, after which she was called Habba Khatun.

In imperial times we find an immense number of persons named Julius ; but it must not be supposed that they were connected by descent in any way with the Julia gens ; for, in consequence of the imperial family belonging to this gens, it became the name of their numerous freedmen, and it may have been assumed by many other persons out of vanity and ostentation.

Few in Europe would have known of this immense new wealth in a kingdom so isolated that its bishops had virtually no contact with Rome, except that Ferdinand and his heirs ( the kings of León and Castile ) became the greatest benefactors of the Abbey of Cluny, where Abbot Hugh ( died 1109 ) undertook construction of the huge third abbey church, the cynosure of every eye.

After The Roll Call was shown in 1874 at the Academy, she became a nineteenth century celebrity, due to the paintings ' immense popularity.

It became the first worldwide dance craze in the early 1960s, enjoying immense popularity among young people and drawing fire from critics who felt it was too provocative.

Thus he gradually accumulated an immense erudition, became familiar with almost all branches of secular and religious knowledge, and in many cases thoroughly mastered the bibliography of the various subjects which he undertook to treat.

Cyril became well known for his charitable works in the City of Jerusalem.

Fraser became president of the foreign aid group Care International in 1991, and worked with a number of other charitable organisations.

German immigrant schools, churches, hospitals, farmers ' cooperatives, youth groups, and charitable societies became active Axis backers.

The museum was opened in 1952 as the Montagu Motor Museum and became a charitable trust in 1972.

Although she was active in charitable efforts, Astor also became noted for a streak of cruelty and callousness.

In the early 1970s, the est Foundation became the Werner Erhard Foundation with the aim of " providing financial and organizational support to individuals and groups engaged in charitable and educational pursuits – research, communication, education, and scholarly endeavors in the fields of individual and social transformation and human well-being ".

She also became patron of a number of organisations, including the SAFC Foundation ( the charitable arm of Sunderland AFC ), and Girlguiding UK.

The Makaton Vocabulary Development Project was founded in 1976 to provide resource materials and training courses, and it became a charitable trust in 1983.

Today in North America, the Amish and Mennonites ( the Reist side became known as Mennonites after the schism ; in a paradox, it was the Amish side that was pushing for the introduction of Dutch Mennonite ideas, but those opposing the ideas eventually became known as Mennonites ) live side by side in many communities and work together peacefully in publishing, businesses, and charitable aid projects.

With the monks expelled, Charterhouse became a private house, before the foundation by Thomas Sutton in 1611 of a charitable foundation forming the school named Charterhouse and almshouses known as Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse on the site.

Following her conversion, Procter became extremely active in several charitable and feminist causes.

He began his affiliation with the organization in 2009, when he became the honorary league commissioner for their charitable dodgeball tournaments held on college campuses nationwide.

He used part of his fortune to set up a $ 75M charitable fund and became an philanthropist.

By the Alexandra Park and Palace ( Public Purposes ) Act 1900, a charitable trust was set up ; representatives of the purchasing local authorities became the trustees with the duty to keep both palace and park " available for the free use and recreation of the public forever ".

As mentioned above, a charitable institution organized by a pious foundation was located on the island, receiving sick people, poor and elderly as well as foreigners, and accepting donations from burghers in city, through which the institution became an important landowner.

In 1873, she founded an orphanage in Cooperstown, and under her superintendence it became in a few years a prosperous charitable institution.

In 1893, George H. Hermann donated a site for the purpose of a charitable hospital, which later became Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center.

In 1972 it became a charitable trust ( The East Midland Zoological Society ).

They became a highly respected charitable nursing / religious order.

Following the UK Government's Education Reform Act in 1989, the polytechnic ceased to be under Birmingham Local Education Authority control and became an independent corporation with charitable status.

These charities became incorporated into a scheme led by James Oglethorpe to establish a charitable colony for the poor, ' honest industrious debtors ' and persecuted ( Protestant ) foreigners.

In her later life, before she died at age 89, Warner became a volunteer for the American Red Cross and assisted other charitable organizations.

As of 1 November 2011, MOLA became an independent limited charitable company, with company registration number 07751831 and charity registration number 1143574.