This gave birth to the most modern league of the time, which may be why Germany was so good at football, says Thomas Kupfer, who has written a book on football management.
The failure to go ahead with the London championships is the first time in the modern sporting era that a major economic power has failed to meet a promise to hold a major sports event.
The essential point is that, for the first time in modern history, the defending powers are virtually as strong, and as ready, as the potential aggressors.
For most of them, the show was meant to be an exhibition displaying the wide range of American modern art of the time, from the realism of the Ashcan School to the experiments of the Stieglitz-circle painters.
For the first time in modern memory, a whole generation might not prove wealthier than the one that preceded it.
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The six years it took from his death until Pope Benedict XVI beatified him in 2011 was the shortest time in modern history.
Another measure shows that more Americans now identify themselves as Republicans (40%) than as Democrats (35%), again for the first time in modern history.
This meant that the overall level of pension scheme membership has dropped below the 50% mark for the first time since modern records started in 1997.
This will be the fist time the series, in its modern incarnation, will have to deal with a console transition, and it will be interesting to see how it manages.
This in turn could pave the way for Mr Erdogan to launch his long-promised new democratic constitution, which would properly embrace the Kurds for the first time in modern Turkish history.
And then I came across a shot of singer Karen O (whose hairdo and bold clothes have often been compared with those of '60s model Peggy Moffitt), wearing a simple striped T-shirt with her angular bob, somehow looking both retro and modern at the same time.
For fall 2007, he turned the smoking jacket into a short coat dress that was modern and timeless at the same time.
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The country's ambitious efforts over many years to attract modern industry and at the same time more respect as an economic force in Asia haven't always gotten the notice that promoters would wish.
Rumour had it he was most likely to stay in the one I lived in at the time, since it was modern and comfortable.
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In a comedy of manners set amid the chaos of modern Beijing, the characters have a hard time just keeping their heads.
The studies ranged from understanding the impact of modern technology on culture, the importance of time, diversity, the role of creators and governments in culture.
What will happen is that the three days of the convention will give our modern day Brinkleys (the pundits) air time to make us think something is happening.
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His time at the GLC also saw him campaign against its abolition and in favour of its "Fares Fair" policy, which pioneered the use of modern advertising techniques in political communication some time before the wider Labour Party discovered their effective use.
At the same time, the modern overbite began to appear prominently in upper-class Western European jaws.
It happens all the time in the modern workplace: Someone gets left out of the loop.
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This is the very first time in modern history that we've seen a prolonged worldwide interval of equity arbitrage.
More than at any time since the modern republic was founded in 1923, Turkish society is questioning received truths (see article and article).
When the Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions came into force in 2007, for this first time in modern history, the right of states to adopt policies to protect and promote their cultural expressions was affirmed in an international legal instrument.
At the same time it is the autobiography of a master of modern propaganda and public relations.
They're audaciously, passionately artificial and at the same time unabashedly romantic -- post-modern pop medleys aimed at the heart, not the brain.
The SPD with 23% of the vote scored its worst result in modern history and moves into opposition for the first time in 11 years.
The various laws and regulations have all changed over time to incorporate modern financial theory, including the idea that investing for income is the inappropriate investment policy.
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But in 2005, on the eve of the 134th version of the oldest championship in golf, the limelight has shifted away from nine-time modern major winner Tiger Woods to a much more ancient creature - the great and unique Golden Bear.
In 1913, a groundbreaking show at the Armory, which brought hundreds of works by modern European artists to New York for the first time, changed Stieglitz's world forever.
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The modern-day Santa spends his time spreading cheer and promoting world peace by delivering gifts all over the globe.
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