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

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

Throughout the early twentieth century, boxers struggled to achieve legitimacy, aided by the influence of promoters like Tex Rickard and the popularity of great champions from John L. Sullivan to Jack Dempsey.

Throughout the 19th century and early 20th century, the area adjoining today's Battery Park City was known as the Greek quarter ; a long-standing reminder of the ethnic past was the former St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Throughout the late Roman and early Byzantine periods, Christianity was resolving fundamental questions of identity, and the dispute between the orthodox and the monophysites became the cause of serious disorder, expressed through allegiance to the horse-racing parties of the Blues and the Greens.

Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, each party held the presidency for roughly equal periods of time.

Throughout the early history of jazz, double bass players either learned the instrument informally, or from getting classical training early on, as in the case of Ron Carter and Charles Mingus.

Throughout the 1960s and early to mid-1970s, American scholar Bertrand Harris Bronson published an exhaustive, four-volume collection of the then-known variations of both the texts and tunes associated with what came to be known as the Child Canon.

Throughout the rest of his life in Geneva, he maintained several friendships from his early years including Montmor, Cordier, Cop, Farel, Melanchthon and Bullinger.

Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, American politicians and business leaders accused MIT and other universities of contributing to a declining economy by transferring taxpayer-funded research and technology to international – especially Japanese — firms that were competing with struggling American businesses.

Throughout the early Paleozoic, the Earth's landmass was broken up into a substantial number of continents.

Throughout the early history of the Navarrese kingdom, there were frequent skirmishes with the Carolingian Empire, from which it maintained its independence, a key feature of its history until 1513.

Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U. S. Patent Office.

Throughout the early morning hours, groups of armed whites and blacks squared off in gunfights.

Throughout the early stages of the Cold War, NATO relied on the Royal Air Force to threaten key cities in European Russia.

Throughout the early modern period, the English term " witch " was not exclusively negative in meaning, and could also indicate cunning folk.

Throughout the early history of film distribution, theater owners hired orchestras to attend film showings and provide soundtracks.

Throughout the rise of his career he was estranged from Christianity and it was not until he reached his early forties that he experienced a spiritual crisis.

Throughout time, the Zanni grew to be a popular figure who were first seen in commedia as early as the fourteenth century.

Throughout the early years of French rule, French military contingents were sent inland to establish new posts.

Throughout the early drafts, and through to the first edition of The Hobbit Bladorthin / Gandalf is described as being a " little old man ", distinct from a dwarf, but not of the full human stature that would later be described in The Lord of the Rings.

Throughout the year, growers must be mindful of the hazards of fungal disease and early spring frost.

Throughout the early and mid-20th century they continued to be successful.

Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s, the Labour Party's official policy, supported by Attlee, was to oppose rearmament and support internationalism and collective security under the League of Nations.

Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Pickford was believed to be the most famous woman in the world, or, as a silent-film journalist described her, " the best known woman who has ever lived, the woman who was known to more people and loved by more people than any other woman that has been in all history.

Throughout the 1920s, Hull and other researchers around the world worked to develop the magnetron.

Throughout the 1920s, Čapek worked in many writing genres, producing both fiction and non-fiction, but worked primarily as a journalist.

Throughout the 1920s Lloyd George remained a dominant figure in British politics, being frequently predicted to return to office but never succeeding ; this period of his life is covered in John Campbell's book The Goat in the Wilderness.

Throughout the period from the 1900s to the 1920s, Glen Rose was home to approximately 1, 000 people.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s scholars published studies arguing that commercial bank affiliate underwriting during the 1920s was no worse, or was better, than underwriting by securities firms not affiliated with banks and that commercial banks were strengthened, not harmed, by securities affiliates.

Throughout the early and mid 1920s, Henderson provided solo piano accompanyment for many blues singers.

Throughout the 1920s, Fleischer was one of the top producers of animation, with clever humor and numerous innovations including the Rotograph, an early photographic process for compositing animation with live action backgrounds.

Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s the CPGB decided to maintain the doctrine that a communist party should consist of revolutionary cadres and not be open to all applicants.

Throughout the 1920s, the Fleischer studio proved to be one of the top producers of animation with clever humor and numerous innovations.

Throughout the summers of the late 1920s, Johnson opened up concession stands on beachfront property along the coast of Massachusetts.

Throughout the 1920s, unemployment stayed at a steady one million.

Throughout the 1920s, only between 2. 3 % and 3. 4 % of the total population could vote.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States.

Throughout the 1920s, the squad was standardised and expanded, and the establishment was expanded to forty officers, under the command of a Detective Superintendent.

Throughout the 1920s the Royal Air Force continued to develop air routes through the Middle East.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s Taft was a powerful figure in local and state political and legal circles, and was known as a loyal Republican who never threatened to bolt the party.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Poland refused several German proposals for popular referendums, population transfers, highway projects and customs union reform.

Throughout the 1920s, Kahn continued to contribute to Broadway scores such as Holka Polka ( 1925 ), Kitty's Kisses ( 1926 ), Artists and Models ( 1927 ), Whoopee!

Throughout the 1920s and 30s, the division's establishment fluctuated due to the effects of the Great Depression and a general apathy towards military matters.

Throughout the 1920s, Alexander remained active with the Idaho Democratic Party as a speaker and delegate to Democratic National Conventions.

Throughout the 1920s, however, the mills faced an intractable problem of overproduction, as the wartime boom for cotton goods ended, while foreign competition cut into their markets.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s there were tighter restrictions on road steam haulage, including speed, smoke and vapour limits and a ' wetted tax ', where the tax due was proportional to the size of the wetted area of the boiler ; this made steam engines less competitive against domestically produced internal combustion engined units ( although imports were subject to taxes of up to 33 %).