Example sentences of "in 1911 he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a timed swim across Honolulu Harbour in 1911 he covered 100 yards in 55.4 seconds , shattering the existing record by 4.6 seconds . |
| 2 | In 1911 he wrote : ‘ In the past man has been first , in the future the system must be first . ’ |
| 3 | Born at Balcarce , near Buenos Aires , in 1911 he was first introduced to the sport as a 17-year-old when he travelled as an accompanying mechanic in the long-distance races in his home country . |
| 4 | In 1911 he was initiated into the schooling process at the Ecole Primaire in Tours . |
| 5 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 6 | In 1911 he was chosen to become general manager of the London and South Western Railway and remained there till 1923 . |
| 7 | In 1911 he bought the Observer , in order to get the services of its editor , J. L. Garvin [ q.v. ] , as editor of the Pall Mall Gazette . |
| 8 | In 1911 he was knighted . |
| 9 | In 1911 he concentrated on radium refining on an industrial scale , initially in Runcorn in Cheshire , and from 1915 until his death , in Balloch on Loch Lomond . |
| 10 | In 1911 he had acquired , with Lloyd George and the attorney-general , Sir Rufus Isaacs ( later first Marquess of Reading , q.v. ) , a personal shareholding in the American Marconi Company , soon after the British Marconi Company had entered into a large contract with the British government . |
| 11 | In 1911 he was a founder member of the Photomicrographic Society , whose Barnard medal he endowed . |
| 12 | In 1911 he won both the British Open at Sandwich and the German Open . |
| 13 | In 1911 he was appointed dean of the faculty of theology at London University . |
| 14 | In 1911 he founded the Glasgow Music Festival and in 1921 he was one of the founders of the British Federation of Music Festivals . |
| 15 | Briefly national organizer of the Socialist Party of Ireland in 1910 , in 1911 he became Ulster district organizer of the Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union , fighting unsuccessfully to combat sectarianism . |
| 16 | In 1911 he returned to the Arboretum , helping in the preparation of Plantae Wilsonianae , which was edited in three volumes by Sargent ( 1911–17 ) but partly written by A. Rehder and other specialists . |
| 17 | From the day he seized power in 1911 he thought of nothing but his own amusement and he was frequently absent from Addis Ababa , which he detested , for months on end . |