Example sentences of "in 1919 he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reviewing Henry Adams 's Autobiography in 1919 he attacked the Bostonian world and , covertly , himself , as he savaged Boston Unitarianism along with Adams who ‘ abandoned lecturing at Harvard ’ , and whose researches into primitive mythology ‘ turned to ashes in his mouth ’ . |
| 2 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |
| 3 | By the time he was conscripted into the Red Army of Workers and Peasants ( Rabochiy Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya , RKKA ) in 1919 he had already shown his intelligence by graduating from a theological seminary . |
| 4 | Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted . |
| 5 | In disgust Steel-Maitland resigned as Party Chairman and in 1919 he despaired of ever getting a senior post and resigned from the government too . |
| 6 | As Under-Secretary of the Navy in Wilson 's administration from 1913 , he had warmly supported American entry into the First World War , and in 1919 he had wanted the USA to join the League of Nations . |
| 7 | In 1919 he was also given responsibility for founding the new signals intelligence ( sigint ) agency , the Government Code and Cipher School ( GC and CS ) . |
| 8 | In 1919 he saw active service in north Russia . |
| 9 | In 1919 he returned to the London theatre , designing the Ring cycle for Sir Thomas Beecham [ q.v. ] |
| 10 | Firbank had no close emotional attachments , save with his mother ; but in 1919 he seems to have become infatuated with the Hon. Evan Morgan , who rebuffed him by refusing the dedication of his only play , The Princess Zoubaroff , days before its publication in 1920 . |
| 11 | In 1919 he joined the English Electric Company Ltd . |
| 12 | After a period of unemployment in 1919 he found work at the government-run Slough Transport Depot where he became chairman of the shop stewards ' committee , organizing strikes and demonstrations against its eventual closure in April 1920 . |
| 13 | In 1919 he was appointed MBE . |
| 14 | In 1919 he was a member of the reparations commission in the British delegation to the Paris peace conference . |
| 15 | In 1919 he married Marion , daughter of John Stilt , railway clerk . |
| 16 | After 1917 he undertook diplomatic duties , including a goodwill mission to America and two visits to London in 1918 ; in 1919 he attended the Paris peace conference . |
| 17 | Demobilized in 1919 he was appointed a chaplain to the king . |
| 18 | In 1919 he married Elsie Rosaline , daughter of Sir David Orme Masson [ q.v. ] , professor of chemistry in the University of Melbourne ; they had three daughters . |
| 19 | In 1919 he married the actress Thelma Raye . |
| 20 | In 1919 he was offered a job by R. D. Blumenfeld [ q.v. ] , editor of the Daily Express . |