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 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 twentieth century, human exploitation, shifting agriculture, forest fires, and uncontrolled grazing denuded large areas of Iraq ’ s natural forests, which in 2005 were almost exclusively confined to the northeastern highlands.

Throughout the twentieth century, Stonehenge began to be revived as a place of religious significance, this time by adherents of Neopagan and New Age beliefs, particularly the Neo-druids: the historian Ronald Hutton would later remark that " it was a great, and potentially uncomfortable, irony that modern Druids had arrived at Stonehenge just as archaeologists were evicting the ancient Druids from it.

Throughout the rest of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Clay County has remained largely agricultural.

Throughout the middle part of the twentieth century a major industry consisted of the packers of Bango and Jolly Time popcorn.

Throughout much of the twentieth century, BNSF was the most prominent employer in the city, but the company scaled back its workforce in Havre in the 1990s.

Throughout the twentieth century, Weimar enjoyed a slow yet steady growth in population, increasing on an average by 250 persons every ten years.

Throughout the remainder of the twentieth century, La Ward's population declined to 247 in 1970, to 218 in 1980, and to 162 in 1990.

Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, Junction's population continued to hover around 2, 600.

Throughout the early twentieth century, the population hovered around 50.

Throughout much of the twentieth century, the term " third sex " was a popular descriptor for homosexuals and gender nonconformists, but after Gay Liberation of the 1970s and a growing separation of the concepts of sexual orientation and gender identity, the term fell out of favor among LGBT communities and the wider public.

Throughout the twentieth century, further volumes were published for those who had died, generally on a decade-by-decade basis, beginning in 1912 with a supplement edited by Lee covering those who died between 1901 and 1911.

Throughout the first quarter of the twentieth century, Dominion Tar opened offices in Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver, and Calgary.

Throughout most of the rest of the twentieth century, Labour alternated in office with the Conservatives, most notably in the Wilson-Heath years ( 1964 – 1976 ).

Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the public perception of the game changed.

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, bronze coins were issued denominated in laari.

Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century, fishing, forestry, and farming ( including the planting of extensive orchards in the Okanagan region ) became the " three F's " on which the new province built its economy — a situation that persisted well into the late twentieth century.

Throughout the twentieth century countless adventurers and explorers, including Jordan H. Stabler, Colonel Edwards Cranston Brooks, Captain Eric Erskine Loch, Commander George Miller Dyott and Eugene Konrad Brunner utilized Spruce's paper in their quest for the Treasure of the Llanganatis.

Throughout the first two decades of the twentieth century Hubert continued to publish on both Asia and the Celts as well as more general topics.

Throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century Harehills ' industrial areas generally declined and have been converted into car garages, light warehouses, self storage centres and such.

Throughout the first half of the twentieth century Kress stores were a familiar sight on " Main Street " in hundreds of cities and towns.

Throughout Baden-Württemberg, in the second half of the twentieth century, many old farmsteads were developed into neighborhoods.

Throughout the twentieth century the firm underwent a number of mergers, including William Younger's Brewery and later with Newcastle Breweries to form Scottish & Newcastle.

Throughout the twentieth century, the school also was on the front lines of students rights issues ranging from fraternity / sorority membership in the early twentieth century, to the rights of homosexuals and African-Americans at the century's end.