At the advent of World War II, Maskelyne rapped on the door of the British Army and volunteered his services.
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At the advent of Industrial Revolution, technological innovations aimed at diversifying product design and cheapening the production cost for meeting the needs of rapidly expanding consumer market.
The big switch to the foundation of the American financial structure at the advent of this period was the U.S. decision in 1971 to go off the gold standard.
Perhaps the decline of Reader's Digest's fortunes was inevitable with the longer-term social and political influences of 60s counterculture, the failure of general interest magazines, the rise of global media targeted at specific niches and the advent of the internet.
People have been buying books at bookstores ever since the advent of the printing press, and we have to believe that will continue in spite the rise of the eReader.
At the same time, the advent of digital technology offers new ways to distribute both films and television programmes.
"We've seen the balance of power shift from the financing sources to the entrepreneur, " says Wendy Phillips, a venture capitalist at the Menlo Park office of Advent International.
This week we talked about the growing reach and influence of Chinese soft power around the world, and the advent of the e-bike on Beijing streets (Kuo and Osnos both worship at the temple of the e-bike, and never resist an opportunity to proselytize).
The group, which included Burke Magnus, senior vice president of college sports programming at ESPN, discussed the fan appetite for such programming and advent of technology that lowered production costs enough to make broadcast of such youth events possible and even desirable.
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Students have been at the forefront of the major social movements of the past century, but the advent of social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter allows them to organize at a faster and more efficient rate.
The advent of health reform means, at least in theory, that more Americans will have access to affordable healthcare, with premiums based on their income.
With the advent of street lighting, however, socialising at night began to filter down through the classes.
With the advent of computer games, the way people look at role-playing games is different than it was in 1980.
He also scoffs at the idea that the industry is shrouded in secrecy, particularly since the advent of the Freedom of Information Act.
Jock Young, a criminologist at Middlesex University, says that like the invention of the telephone, the advent of mobiles has enabled people to report some crimes when previously they wouldn't have considered it worthwhile.
But Cerf admitted that much of the Internet's exploitability could have been avoided at its advent.
Mr Osborne looked pleased as punch with having kept the appointment under wraps till parliament was informed at 3.30pm and - perhaps especially - with the enthusiastic support for the advent of Mr Carney given by Ed Balls, a shadow chancellor who rarely praises his oppo.
From his early days at Apple when personal computers were essentially a thing of fiction, to his later years with the company and the advent of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, Steve Jobs helped spearhead some of the most elegant and innovative technology in the world.
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