Example sentences of "in 1912 he " in BNC.
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| 1 | And during the years when Pound was most under Yeats 's influence , Pound too embraced this ideal — as when in 1912 he went with Yeats and some others to pay an act of homage to one of the last English representatives of the type , the Sussex squire Wilfred Scawen Blunt : |
| 2 | In 1912 he believed that the ‘ principles of self-government ’ had already ‘ been applied in their most extreme form ’ in Canada and South Africa — a date at which neither of these countries had acquired any formal control over their external relations . |
| 3 | In 1912 he first used stencilled figures and letters in ‘ Guitare ’ , an oval painting owned by the Musée de Grenoble , and in 1913 adopted collage techniques , as in ‘ Tivoli-Cinéma ’ , a work which once belonged to Pablo Picasso . |
| 4 | So when a new agent was appointed in Ecclesall in 1912 he was recommended as having come from " the great school of Liverpool , where he worked for Mr James Thompson " . |
| 5 | In 1912 he also established himself in London and Cardiff . |
| 6 | In 1912 he published an impressively researched study of Morocco in Diplomacy and became Liberal candidate for Birkenhead . |
| 7 | After leaving Clifton at sixteen and a premium apprenticeship with the Great Northern Railway , in 1912 he acquired , with his brother Horace Milner , the London agency of the French car DFP . |
| 8 | In 1912 he married the actress Gladys Rosalind Gardner , daughter of Julius Carl Bardili , a German brewer , and his English wife Emma Gardner . |
| 9 | In 1912 he was appointed London director of the new Johannesburg Art Gallery and also became valuer of pictures and drawings for the Board of the Inland Revenue ( 1912–14 ) . |
| 10 | In 1912 he married his secretary , Jennie Wark , daughter of Robert Robin . |
| 11 | In 1912 he was appointed honorary chaplain to George V , having organized bonfire celebrations for Queen Victoria 's jubilees and the king 's coronation . |
| 12 | In 1912 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Murray of Elibank . |
| 13 | In 1912 he was runner-up at Muirfield , and in 1914 at Prestwick was champion again for the sixth and last time . |
| 14 | In 1912 he lost his right eye in a car accident . |
| 15 | In 1912 he was a founder of the Independent Labour Party of Ireland , forerunner of the Irish Labour Party , and proposed in the Irish Worker a political programme which included proportional representation and women 's suffrage . |
| 16 | He was one of the first to produce high-intensity electric light from arc lamps taking current from dynamos ( 1865 ) , which he developed into searchlights for the Royal Navy ( 1874 ) ; after the Titanic disaster in 1912 he strongly urged that mercantile vessels should be fitted with searchlights . |
| 17 | In 1912 he insisted , against opposition from the foreign ministry , that Prince Lichnowsky be appointed to the London embassy , saying " I send only my ambassador to London , who has my confidence , obeys my will , fulfills my orders with my instructions " . |
| 18 | He was bitten by the flying bug at the age of four when in 1912 he saw a flimsy Bleriot aircraft flying near his Liverpool home . |
| 19 | In 1912 he had signed on with Sultan Abdul Hamid to fly his own plane ‘ freelance ’ against the Bulgarians . |