Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilkins. The week's news of the earliest, most handicapped but most dogged polar pilgrim of them all, was: "Commander Wilkins waiting with the Detroiter at Point Barrow for fair weather...
...called Gossamer Diary, a long, romantic account of private joys and sorrows written by a mistress whose lord preserved it after her death. This diary was doubtless the structural model for Genji. Publication as we know it was unknown in 1000 A. D., even in Japan. The earliest Genji texts are a series of handwritten rolls prepared for great families; the first printed edition dates to 1650, of which the British Museum has a copy. Numerous succeeding editions have appeared, for Genji occupies a place among Japanese classics not unlike Chaucer's place in English...
...which is in about the same latitude. We know by looking at its architecture that Okop is the oldest. Its walls are thicker, the whole construction of its buildings is heavier. When the Mayas first began to build they knew little about the laws governing thrust and strain. Their earliest two-story buildings have the second story set behind the first on a solid mass of masonry. They dared not put one room directly above another. Later they learned how to do this and the development of their skill can be traced through buildings of successive periods...
...earliest dated inscription is on a small jade statuette of 96 B.C. The great cities of Northern Guatemala flourished from the beginning of the Christian era until about...
YOUNG WOODLEY ? Glenn Hunter and an adept troupe discussing an English schoolboy's earliest love affair...